The goal of this textbook is to develop speaking and writing skills, acquiring genres of spoken and written languages and improvement of spelling and grammar. Advanced level.

Dictionary of aphorisms about women, happiness and love. At the end of the dictionary biographical and literary record for all of the authors of aphorisms is provided.

This manual contains 12 works by Pushkin ('The Shot,' 'The Station Inspector'), and also texts about places related to Pushkin in St. Petersburg. All texts are supplemented with exercises. At the end of the manual is a word list and supplement for the teacher. This manual is for foreign students at an intermediate or advanced level of of Russian, as well as teachers of Russian as foreign...

Sergei Dovlatov is one of the most popular and widely read Russian writers of the late 20th century - early 21st century. His novels, stories and notebooks have been translated into many languages, filmed, studied at school and universities. 'Reserve', 'Zone', 'Foreigner', 'Ours', 'Suitcase' - these and other surprisingly funny and piercingly sad Dovlatov things have long become classics. 'I...

The textbook presents fragments of famous Russian literary pieces with the most dramatic and emotionally charged action. Each fragment is complemented with vocabulary, phraseology vocabulary, questions about the text and multiple tasks that stimulate analysis and critical reading of the text, vocabulary building and improving of speaking skills.

Today, no one doubts the reality of the existence of secret societies. But why do they exist? What goals do they pursue? What role do they play in the life of humanity? And by what signs can we judge their presence? The author of the book offers his original interpretation of the role of secret societies in history, considering them as a kind of ‘locomotives’, provocateurs of social change and...

English-Russian Dictionary on Optoelectronics and Laser Devices. Contains over 4500 terms with word combinations, abbreviations and word reductions.

Directory contains basic rules of spelling and punctuation. It also gives recommendations on editing.

The book represents a collection of memoirs about Lermontov from his family and friends. Many points of view help to recreate the personality of a great poet.

Full biography of Confucius with collection of his sayings at the end of the book.

This book presents readers with an 'epistolary' look at Ilia Ilf. This first unabridged edition contains letters to his wife and friends, which were written over a 15 year period (1921-1936). There are no letters to Evgenii Petrov, however, since the two were practically never parted. The envelopes have stamps from Odessa, Moscow, Leningrad, and also cities in Europe and the United States....

The book contains section about Lexicography, Lexicology, phraseology, phonetics, phonology, spelling, etc.