The Department of Ukrainian Language is an integral part of the Faculty of Ukrainian Philology of Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University. Academic staff of the Department includes 11 Lecturers and 1 Laboratory Assistant.

Nowadays the Department is headed by Koloiz Zhanna, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor.

In 1986, the Department of Ukrainian was formed on the basis of the Department of Methodology of Philological Teaching. It was headed by Professor Valentina Yavir. From 1992 Petro Bilousenko became the Head of the Department, then in 1999-2002 the Department of the Ukrainian Language was headed by Stanislav Karaman, (now he is a Doctor of Pedagogic Sciences, Professor at Kyiv Grinchenko University). From 2002 to 2007, Hanna Viniar, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, held the position of Head of the Ukrainian Language Department.

The Department carries out educational work at the Faculty of Ukrainian Philology, non-specialized faculties and the faculty of continuous training.

The Department of Ukrainian Language has creative relations with different Higher Institutions, such as Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, NASU Institute of Ukrainian Language, The National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, Oles Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National University, Zaporizhzhia National University, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kherson State University.