Is the tutorial up-to-date? a look at the major problems of translation and the science of translation. Are the provisions of scientific publications especially widely used? according to the theory of translation by L. S. Barkhudarov, Ya. I. Retsker, A. D. Shvey? central. On the actual material, the laws of the translation process, methods for solving specific translation problems are revealed; lexico-semantic, grammatical and stylistic translation problems are covered.