The leading Russian university that provides training of highly qualified personnel in trade, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics will celebrates 110-year anniversary on the 19 February of 2017. We should note that issues of training of qualified personnel in trade have been extremely important for many years. In fact, a significant part of small and medium-sized businesses operate in trade. The Department of trade policy is a leading department of the University that provides training of personnel in internal trade. Editor in Chief of “Russian Journal of Retail Management” Panyukova V.V. met and asked some questions Ivanov G.G., the head of the Department of trade policy of Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.