"This book is designed for the English-speaking scientist. Its aim is to furnish this scientist with a tool with which he may go to Russian scientific literature and extract the particular information that he seeks, be it a mere deciphering of titles, a reading of graphs, or a thorough study of articles. Accordingly, the material is presented in such a way as to develop a knack for recognition as well as familiarity with the basic points of grammar." - Preface.