The XIII MAPRYAL Congress “Russian language and literature in the space of world culture” was held from September 13—20, 2015, in Granada, Spain. The Congress was organized by the International Association of Russian Language and Literature Teachers (MAPRYAL) and the University of Granada (Spain), and saw the presence of more than 1200 teachers of Russian language, literature and culture from 60 countries. This event takes place once every four years, and is the largest international forum for Russian-language philologists. Participants included Russian language teachers working at all levels of learning, literary scholars, linguists, students and graduate students, publishers, public figures, journalists and all those working towards the study and popularisation of the Russian language.