ка́федра

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1.
department (university), chair (professorship), faculty divisioneducation
Он рабо́тает на ка́федре русского языка́.
He works in the Russian language department.
The basic teaching and research unit of a Russian university, headed by a professor.
2.
lectern, rostrum, pulpit, dais
Профе́ссор подня́лся на ка́федру.
The professor stepped up to the lectern.
Also the pulpit in a church.

Examples

Она мечтает о профессуре и своей кафедре.
She dreams of becoming a professor and having her own department.
Преподаватель, совместительствующий на двух кафедрах, был очень занят.
The lecturer who worked concurrently at two departments was very busy.
Она работает аспиранткой на кафедре физики.
She is a postgraduate student at the Department of Physics.
Она стала завом кафедры в этом году.
She became the head of the department this year.
После защиты диссертации он занял доцентуру на кафедре.
After defending his dissertation, he took up a senior lecturer position in the department.
Го́голь сказа́л, что "теа́тр – э́то така́я ка́федра, с кото́рой можно много сказа́ть ми́ру добра́".
Gogol said that "the theater is such a pulpit from which one can say much that is good to the world."
В университете есть кафедра геохимии.
The university has a department of geochemistry.
Она работает доцентом на кафедре истории.
She works as an associate professor in the Department of History.