The textbook for development of speaking skills. The textbook contains conversations that would help learning new words and phrases. There is one plot divided in four chapters. Each chapter contains polylogs, monologues, exercises, and keys.

Three sections (Meeting People, Family Life, and Customer Service) cover 16 topics. Each topic is presented by a basic text, questions and answers, dialogues and additional materials for more advanced students. Each section contains texts for reading and/or listening. Grammar references, poems, songs and pictures are given in the supplement. Includes audio supplement on an MP3 CD.

The manual is intended to introduce foreign students to one of the most beautiful cities in Europe and the world - St. Petersburg, which is rightly called the cultural capital of Russia. It contains texts dedicated to the most important cultural and historical events in the life of the city. A clear and precise system of pretext, pretext and post-textual exercises already at the early stage...

The manual talks in detail about the algorithm of Russian verb change. For Russian verbs in present and future tense.