The present book is designed for the foreign students who begin to learn Russian. These are 10 intensive lessons of Russian. The whole course is intended to be learned in 10 days.The lexical and grammatical material of the book is organized by topics. Every chapter begins with the vocabulary units to be learned to understand some important expressions of every lesson. The whole material of the book is aimed at the development of communicative skills. The phrases will supply the students with the common verbal material which is very close to the real communicative situations of the Russian every day life.The book contains 10 lessons including dialogues, pictures, texts, communicative tasks in the form of communicative games. The book also contains a grammar glossary with comments and instructions to the students. A dictionary and keys can be found at the end of the book.