The teaching manual reflects the main content of lectures on the course "Russian Dialectology," includes control tasks to test the knowledge and skills of students in this discipline, samples of analysis of the dialect text, tasks for independent work of students, a list of recommended scientific and educational literature. Intended for second-year students of the philological faculty of full-time education in the specialty 031001 "Philology" (specializations "Russian language and literature," "Russian language and literature. Foreign language").