A textbook on the Latin language, prepared by a group of teachers of the Department of General, Slavic-Russian Linguistics and Classical Philology of Tomsk State University, consists of theoretical (phonetics, morphology, syntax) and practical (texts for translation, textbook) parts. The appendix contains word formation, the basics of Roman versification, Latin proverbs and sayings. The textbook contains Latin-Russian and Russian-Latin dictionaries. In the theoretical part, the facts of the Latin language are given by historical commentary and in comparison with the languages ​ ​ of the Indo-European family (mainly Greek and Old Slavonic). There are also recommendations for translating Latin texts into Russian.