The article examines the issues of the systemic use of CLIL technology in teaching the Russian language to students-historians at a pedagogical university. The urgency of introducing innovative methods into the learning process is substantiated, including the use of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in the linguistic educational process, which makes it possible to combine the study of a language and a special subject, thus expanding the general educational space through a functional approach. to language learning. 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.