This article explores the questions of  effectiveness and perspectives of CLIL technology in teaching the Russian language to students-historians at a pedagogical university. The author provides a detailed explanation of this technology and a brief history of its origin and spread in the educational process. The article describes the content of the survey conducted by the authors among 1st year students of the history profile, specialties "History" and "History-geography" of Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University. The subject of the survey of students was to identify the language needs and opinions of students regarding the use of CLIL technology in Russian language classes. The results of the survey made it possible to assert that the formation of professional-communicative, cultural-communicative competencies in the classroom in the Russian language through the CLIL technology allows you to learn the language, simultaneously activating knowledge from the subject area.