This methodological manual contains facts and opinions about the methods of Russian language learning. At the present time there is an increased interest in the study of the Russian language among the world's languages. The Russian language is the East Slavic group of the Slavic branch of the Indo-European language, the national language of the Russian people. It is one of the most widespread languages in the world - the sixth among all languages of the world by total number of speakers and the eighth by the number of those who speak it as a native language.