Advanced Russian: From Reading to Speaking (2 volume set) (Russian Edition)
Sophia Lubensky has been Professor of Russian in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University at Albany-SUNY. Her areas of specialization are lexical semantics, bilingual lexicography, methodology of teaching Russian. She is the author of the critically acclaimed, comprehensive "Random House Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms" and the widely used textbook "Nachalo."Irina Odintsova is Associate Professor in the Department of Russian for Foreign Students at the Faculty of Philology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. She specializes in functional grammar and the methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language.