Nicholas Brown Russian learners' dictionary

This dictionary contains 10,000 Russian words in order of importance starting with the most common and finishing with words that occur about 8 times in a million.

All the words have English translations, many have examples of usage and the entries include information on stress and grammatical irregularities.

There is also a complete alphabetical index to the words in the list.

A learner who knows all or most of these 10,000 words can be regarded as competent in Russian for all normal purposes.

The list takes you from a beginner's core vocabulary through to postgraduate level.