The Department of Foreign Languages has been operating since the first day of establishment of the Azerbaijan Polytechnic Institute (now Azerbaijan Technical University) in 1950. Since its inception, the department has been teaching 3 languages: English, German and French, and since 2010, the teaching of the Russian language has been added.
In the first years, 8 English, 2 German, and 1 French teachers worked in the department.
The first director of the department was Zal Javad oglu Mammadli, who studied in Germany in 1919-1928 and knew 7 foreign languages. (1965-1975). In 1975-2011, the department was headed by Heybat Salman oglu Pashayev, Z.C. Mammadli and Rauf Abdulali oglu Ismayilov, specialist in French, doctor of philological sciences, professor, honored scientist. In 2011-2020, the Department of Foreign Languages was headed by Yusif Ashraf oglu Suleymanov, a specialist in English and German, PhD in philology, associate professor. During their leadership, the personnel potential of the department increased, the level of teaching-methodical, scientific-research works began to rise. Currently, the faculty is headed by doctor of philological sciences, professor Sabina Almammadova.
Employees of the department publish textbooks, teaching aids and technical dictionaries for the use of students in all regularly taught languages. At the same time, there are two language rooms in the department for conducting training classes with the application of ICT.
Currently, English, German, Russian, and French languages are taught by professional teachers in the Department of Foreign Languages.
The department of foreign languages of ANAS regularly expands cooperation relations with Nasimi Institutes of Linguistics and Nizami Literature Institutes, embassies, local higher education institutions, Moscow and Belarus Universities, a number of universities of the Republic of Türkiye and companies.
