Download or read book Dictionary of Russian Slang and Colloquial Expressions written by Vladimir Ivanovich Shli︠a︡khov and published by Barron's Educational Series. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expanded and updated reference book lists approximately 5,100 Russian idiomatic words and expressions with their translations into English. Included are figures of speech, slang, and vulgarisms, many of which cannot be found in standard Russian-English dictionaries. Here are valuable insights on how Russian is "really" spoken today. Each entry comes with an example sentence in Russian and its English translation.