WHEN GRAMMAR MAKES SENSE
Russian grammar is often taught as a collection of endings, tables, and exceptions. Students learn the rules, yet hesitate to apply them.
Active Russian Grammar turns those rules into a system learners can understand, practice, and use. It breaks a complex system into manageable pieces and shows how they fit together.
Designed by the authors of Poekhali!, it works alongside any existing beginner Russian curriculum whether it supports the current textbook or becomes the grammar core of a redesigned syllabus.
Volume 1: Cases Available now
Volume 2: Verbs and Syntax Currently in development
A1–A2+ Paperback, InterActive, and FlipBook Classroom and independent use
The demo includes Lessons 33–42 on the dative case. Volume 2 is in development: its contents are provisional and may be refined during production.
THE METHOD IN THREE STEPS
Building the case system step by step
Understand the pattern
Concise explanations and clear reference tables show how forms are organized, how they are built, what they mean, and what they allow learners to express.
Build accuracy
Carefully sequenced exercises give students the repetition they need, without asking instructors to assemble worksheets from several sources.
Communicate
Real-life examples and communication prompts turn grammar into something to talk about, sparking discussion from the first topic onward.
Practice the form.
Use it immediately.
Use it immediately.
- Volume 1 Includes
- Clear, bite-size explanations
- 60 structured grammar topics
- 5,000+ practice items
- Real-life examples and engaging exercises
- Grammar tables for quick reference
- Audio, answer keys, and introductory videos
- Online tests and additional digital practice
- Resources for revision, homework, and self-study
- Designed for
- Universities and colleges
- Institutional language programs
- Intensive adult courses
- Semester-based and continuing education
- Classroom, blended, and flipped learning
- Homework and guided self-study
- Review, test, and exam preparation
- Integration with an existing A1–A2+ curriculum
One Methodology. Multiple Formats.
Start with Print. Extend Digitally.
See it before you decide
Each format has an open demo — no form, no registration.
Grammar is the software that communication runs on. The better it works, the more confidently you communicate.
That’s why we call it Active.
That’s why we call it Active.
About the authors
Stanislav Chernyshov and Alla Chernyshova are internationally recognized authors and educators in Russian as a foreign language. They created Poekhali!, one of Europe's best-selling Russian course series for adult learners, with more than 250,000 copies sold worldwide.
Graduates of St. Petersburg State University, they have more than thirty years of teaching experience — in universities, language schools, and intensive programs, with students ranging from undergraduates to diplomats and executives from dozens of countries. Today they work with universities across Europe, speak regularly at international conferences, and lead teacher-training workshops.
Active Russian Grammar comes out of that classroom experience: the same conviction that adult learners deserve clear structure, honest explanations, and grammar they can actually use.
Graduates of St. Petersburg State University, they have more than thirty years of teaching experience — in universities, language schools, and intensive programs, with students ranging from undergraduates to diplomats and executives from dozens of countries. Today they work with universities across Europe, speak regularly at international conferences, and lead teacher-training workshops.
Active Russian Grammar comes out of that classroom experience: the same conviction that adult learners deserve clear structure, honest explanations, and grammar they can actually use.
Review Active Grammar for Your Program
Request an inspection copy, a sample module, the table of contents, or temporary access to the digital formats. No commitment is required.
Free flipbook for the teacher for classroom demonstration with every group order
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