The author’s experience of schoolchildren preparation for the regional and all-Russian stages of the School olympiad on Russian language is extended. The princnples of organization of the work on the development of olympiad thinking among the schoolchildren are proved.

The article considers such genre of school educational and creative discourse as the argument composition on the text fragment in the format of the basic state examination on Russian language (15.2); carefully explains the special aspects of style and genre realizations, and also theme and thesis definitions. It is offered the typical mistakes prevention tips during writing the composition. The example with the analytic comment is given.

The article is dedicated to the scientific report as the genre of the oral scientific speech. The author determines the purpose of the report, its structure and functions, considers the speech formulae as the mean of report organization and compliance of speaking etiquette.

The article is dedicated to the special aspects of written speech in the modern digital culture. The specific tendencies of written form of speech development are determined on the base of analysis of students’ written entries in MOODLE. The author suggests using the linguistic facts in Russian language teaching and speech development methodology.

The article covers the difficult events Russian language teachers face during teaching the theme «Vowel Gradation in Word Root». The roots with o/a gradations are considered in the article such as -gar-/-gor-, -zar-/-zor-, -klan-/-klon-, -tvar-/-tvor-, -lag-/-lozh-, -kas-/-kos-, -rast-/-rashch-/-ros-, -skak-/-skoch-, -ravn-/-rovn-, -mak-/-mok-. The special attention is paid to the analysis of rule definitions from the different years guidebooks since the Rules of Russian Orthography and Punctuation set in 1956 by Academy of Sciences. The recommendations on material systematization necessary for the correct theme presentation at the lesson are given.

Conditions of successful learning of orthography rules are set at the early age, when the child begins to understand the morpheme unity that is the same on change of its phonetic image. At a later stage, during learning to read the inkling of preservation of morpheme orthographic image (not only according the root, but also flexion, prefix and later suffix) then becomes. Investigation of the mechanism of the process helps to make the phenomenon of “inborn literacy” clearer.

The article analyses the theoretical basis of the theme «Homogeneous Parts of the Sentence» and offers various types of tasks with the algorithm of its making. The tasks purpose is the development of knowledge and skills of finding homogeneous parts of the sentence in the text, their grammar characteristics and punctuation pointing. Understanding of the homogeneity idea, grammar means of homogeneity expression, homogeneous and unhomogeneous attributes, not homogeneous constructions, punctuation under the homogeneous parts by schoolchildren is in the centre author’s attention.

The offered methodological recommendations include the consideration both theoretic questions and practical procedures of expressive reading development.

The perspective-historical analysis of the part of the professor M.V. Ushakov’s publications archive presented in the journal «Russian language at school» is given in the article. The main trends of investigative search of the scientist are particularized through the chronology of publication subject. The moments of transition of author’s ideas on the stage of traditional methodological knowledge is fixed. The time frames of investigation are given by raised problem and cover the period since 1928 till 1968.

The aspects of special lexis (terms and terminological collocations – on the base of «Dictionary of 20th Century Russian Poetry Language») often used in the poetry are analyzed. Its functions in the texts and links with other lexical units groups are determined. It is showed that the main characteristic of V. Mayakovsky’s poetry is using the special lexis not only as a part of tropes but also as the basis for creation of author’s neologisms. His poetry terminology analysis allows to specify knowledge about his lexicon content, to watch its development and to determine the principles of specific lexis use in futurists poetry.

The article offers the scheme of intertextual analysis of the poetic text, educes the specifics of the intertextuality category in the poem «Molitva pered Pojemoj» by E.A. Evtushenko, considers the figures of intertext and the special aspects of intertextual interplay of the fragments by E.A. Evtushenko with the works of Russian classical writers (such as A.S. Pushkin, M.Ju. Lermontov, N.A. Nekrasov, A.A. Blok, B.L. Pasternak, S.A. Esenin i V.V. Majakovskij).

The article considers the stress aspects of masculine nouns with endings on consonants, covers the reasons and logics of change of accentuation in such words, orthological represents the recommendations connected with the orientation on the elder norm as the base for accentuation in such types of words.

The article is dedicated to the problem of complete/incomplete of inflectional paradigm and grammar profile of the word – the whole forms actual in communicative practice. The author raises a question of use of one or another form of the word with «defective» paradigm as the title of vocabulary item, analyses the frequency of use of different words forms in verbal practice.

The article considers semantic, pragmatic and derivational nishchebrod word changes and its derivates appeared in 18–19th centuries, but actualized in publicistic style, internet-communication, youth slang. From the one hand, we can see the intensification of evaluativity in nishchebrod word (and derivates) for the explications of different life stances and moral and ethic priorities in common language that proves this term including into traditional philosophical and publicistic discourse and proves the binarity of Russian being and mental outlook (material and mental). From the other hand, nishchebrod word does differently: it is exposed to graphic-and-phonetic and morphologic transformation in the result of closing to slang Anglicism-americanism bro (˂ brother) that used in speech practise with the game purpose.

The article is dedicated to the history of «Russkaya grammatika» («Russian Grammar») by A.L. Shljocer written for foreigners in 1764 in German. The grammar wasn’t finished and stayed unknown for a long time though it could be the useful guidebook on Russian language. One of the reasons was the negative response of M.V. Lomonosov. The article aim is to give the description of «Russkaya grammatika» («Russian Grammar») origin and prove its value as the grammar guidebook. The reasons of the negative response of M.V. Lomonosov of A.L. Shljocer’s work are covered in the article. The statements taken by other authors from Shljocer’s grammar book and influenced on Russian language grammar system were determined. Particularly this book in part of “nouns” form the basis of training «Russkaya grammatika » («Russian Grammar») by N.I. Grech.

The article analyzes the scientific heritage of an outstanding Russian linguist, academician S.P. Obnorsky (1888– 1962). The author paid attention not only to the well-known scholar works, but also presented a review of archival materials, telling about the discussions in Soviet linguistics of the 1930s. A significant place is given to the ideas by S.P. Obnorsky in the development of the history of the Russian language.