This textbook is intended for first-year students of the Indian department of the Oriental faculty. It is compiled in accordance with the program and experience of teaching the Hindi language of the Department of Indian Philology of Tashkent State University named after V.I. Lenin. The purpose of the textbook is to present grammatical material, provided by the program for the first year, help students learn more than 1200 words and phrases, reflecting various aspects of life, history, culture of the peoples of India and the Soviet Union, as well as teaching students to understand speech in Hindi and speak it within the limits of the lexico-grammatical material passed, make oral and written translations from Russian into Hindi and from Hindi into Russian.