The author describes development of the history department through seventy years of its activity (from the first lectures on February 19, 1920, till the end of 1989). He presents the staff development (professors, assistants, librarians, nonresident collaborators), syllabus and study problematics, quotes statistical data on the number of graduated historians (750), graduates of master's degree (20), doctors of historical sciences (53), as well as on the library extent. On this occasion the history department unvelled a memorlal tablet to its late professors (a plate with signatures of professors).