For students and teachers of the Russian language, for travelers and business people; the language as it is actually spoken; informal and vernacular words and phrases listed alphabetically in cyrillic type, followed by their translations and meanings in English. Every term used in an illustrative sentence in Russian and English: street language, criminal jargon, teenagers' slang, Army and police expressions.

Russian Slang and Russian Lexicography in Our Time --Chief Sources of the Words and Expressions in this Dictionary -- Role of this Dictionary in Linguistics and Sociolinguistics -- Organization of the Dictionary -- Dictionary of Russian Slang and Colloquial Expressions.