The textbook contains 12 lessons and a Persian-Russian dictionary with a volume of about 3 thousand words, including vocabulary of the first and second years of study. Theoretical material (grammar, vocabulary, phraseology) is entered in each lesson; two texts (literary and colloquial); exercises and after-school vocabulary. Synonyms, neologisms and dialectisms are widely represented. In the subject of the lessons, attention is paid to regional studies and interpretations of religious concepts (Shiite sense of Islam); excerpts from the works of modern authors are analyzed.