The textbook contains a description of the theoretical issues of punctuation in its broad sense based on a practical analysis of the modern punctuation and graphic design of the Russian text. The functional purpose of Russian punctuation is presented taking into account such areas of its use as sentence, utterance, text. The book takes a new approach to punctuation as an object of linguistic and linguistic-methodological description, as well as interpretive and normalizing activities. For students of philological faculties of higher educational institutions. It can be recommended to teachers, employees of publishing houses and other media, as well as to everyone interested in the Russian language.