Abstract: The article presents the problem of co-operation between the academic centres of Lublin and Moscow, undertaken in the last three decades on the grounds of common ethnolinguistic research. The expression of the Lublin environment’s interest in this field of science is “Ethnoliguistics”, the annual which is also the place for Russian academics to publish their works. The promoter of common Polish-Russian academic enterprises is Professor Jerzy Bartmiński. One should hope that the effective co-operation will run in a more and more favourable political atmosphere.