This educational manual presents 20 biographical texts about well-known and talented people who were born in Russia, but for one reason or another lived outside of Russia. These are people who have achieved the highest results in their professional fields and captivated those around them in the fields of science, art, and sport. The manual is intended for learners at various levels of Russian....

This manual is intended for foreign students at an intermediate-advanced level who have a vocabulary of at least 10,000 words, and who are able to write texts in different styles and genres. The manual's goal is to develop foreign students' speech abilities through close study of stylistic and structural peculiarities of the educational essay in two versions: descriptive and persuasive essays....

This manual is intended for foreign students learning Russian, especially those in the humanities such as linguists and literary critics. It can be used for work with school-age students, undergraduates, graduate students, and people in training who are planning to go to Russia. This manual is intended to serve as a corrective course in phonetics and intonation at an advanced level. The themes...

This reader contains works from modern Russian authors, all of which are very significant in the context of modern Russian literature. All of the texts are accompanied with lexical, stylistic, grammatical and literary commentaries, which give necessary information for activating the memory. Each story has dictionary definitions for difficult words, with example sentences for the most...

For the first time, this book presents a practical method for teaching Russian to foreign students. It is intended to help form multicultural competence, that is, the ability to interact with representatives of a different culture and the ability to switch to another language or non-verbal norms of conduct. Based on the belief that language is an organizing part of culture, the method presented...

The demand for this book is explained by the fact that using correct cases and prepositions is critical at all levels of learning Russian. Moreover, the themes which are discussed in this educational supplement-verb and noun government-are related to issues that all learners face when attempting to reach the certificate level in Russian. It is important to note that the manual contains a large...

Sergei Dovlatov is one of the most popular and widely-read Russian authors from the end of the twentieth century. His stories, anecdotes and notes have been translated into many languages, adapted to film, and studied in schools and universities. Dovlatov's surprisingly funny yet at times strikingly sad stories have long been considered classics. You will remember his quirky jokes instantly,...

Dictionary contains over 60 000 entries. Dictionary covers the following topics: commerce, banks and finance, stock market, currency exchange, marketing and management, insurance, and taxes.

The goal of this textbook is to improve students' levels of spoken, linguistic, and communicative competence. Graphic tutorials, such as charts, tables and structural analysis help promote acquisition of the material. This book has a system of introductory questions and tasks, as well as training exercises, preliminary and comprehensive exams. The appendices present extensive supplemental...

The well-known historian Sergey Semanov, author of dozens of books, traces the history of Russian-Jewish relations in Russia, and also writes about the role of Russia's political parties in the spiritual revival of the Fatherland. Do Russians actually love themselves, do they value their own Russian world, created by the centuries, and do they value their national ways and traditions?...