This manual offers a new type of university studies at the Faculty of Humanities - laboratory work. The book will help organize active forms of independent work of students, will contribute to a more conscious and durable assimilation of program material. Laboratory classes in the Russian language are a relatively new type of work in pedagogical institutes, introduced to strengthen the practical orientation of the disciplines studied, in accordance with the decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR.