This book is a unique Russian-English reference work that provides
learners of Russian with well-formed factual conversational statements
from over fifty national areas. It is the first Russian-English
reference work to arrange complete sentences according to their meaning.
For ease of use, Russian sentences with their English translators are
arranged in parallel columns on the same page. Extensive indices in both
Russian and English make it simple to find the exact page number for
individual words in sentences, sentence meanings and important concepts.
The glossary explains all of the symbols used in the grammatical
formulas of syntactic models in the body of the book and gives
definitions of terms that are used in defining the various types of
informational expressions. This book will be of use to beginning
students of Russian for finding the most usual conversational
expressions. Advanced students will find it useful in courses and
seminars on the expression of functions and notions in Russian and
developing the skill of multiple expression of the same meaning.