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Now available for the first time in flexible covers and designed primarily for English-speaking students of Russian, The Oxford Russian-English Dictionary features 82,000 words and phrases and 129,000 translations. The dictionary derives its material from a collation of the best existing Russian-English dictionaries with the fundamental dictionaries of Russian, including the authoritative works prepared by the USSR Academy of Sciences.Drawing upon Russian and Soviet literature, it focuses on colloquial vocabulary and general scientific and technological terms. Entries include valuable grammatical information such as irregular case endings and short forms of adjectives. The dictionary also provides appendices of abbreviations and geographical names.