Read and understand Russian: a teaching book to develop speaking skills The present book makes part of the teaching complex «Survival Russian». It can be used both for the classroom and independent studies. The book has 16 lessons organized by topics. Each lesson contains 5-7 interesting texts of different size and complexity. There are about 100 texts which were written by the authors especially for this book. The texts give a good idea about the culture of Russia and the modern Russian language. The easy system of exercises helps to learn to read and understand texts.