Within the last decades, Russian literature studies are characterized by doubtless achievements, since fundamentally new approaches are used in domestic philology, which was not possible earlier due to the ideological bans. On the other hand, the multiplicity of these approaches does not only allow to describe the subject from different points of view, but often blurs and transforms the subject. This phenomenon needs to be discussed. Poor involvement of the regional centers of Russian literature studies in the general scientific life constitutes a separate problem.