This book contains more than 5,000 of the most common words, organized according to the thematic principle. 155 topics of the dictionary cover the main areas of everyday human activity, business, science, culture. The dictionary is intended for active work with the vocabulary, for expanding and systematizing knowledge of foreign vocabulary. The publication will be useful both for self-study of the language and as an additional guide to the main course. The manual is equipped with a convenient Cyrillic transliteration, which is intended for use in case of doubts about the pronunciation of a word.