The dictionary includes about 15 thousand terms on immunology, immunogenetics, molecular biology of the immune response, transplantology, clinical immunology and allergology.

The book was written by one of the dictionary’s authors. ‘At the heart of this work lies an original and highly intriguing concept: to reveal to the reader the ‘creative workshop’ that—invisible to the naked eye—stands behind the *Orthoepic Dictionary of the Russian Language*—one of the most significant achievements of Russian lexicography in the second half of the 20th century’ (A. A. Zaliznyak).

Compiled by a leading Russian specialist on the Caucasus, this dictionary was not previously published - the author was a victim of Stalin's regime and died in 1941. The dictionary includes a description of the Tabasaran language and examples of Tabasaran texts compiled by the author.