The Modern Russian Speech teaching materials based on the lectures by Professor Vladimir Kolesov have been developed at the Faculty of Philology, St. Petersburg State University. This course is primarily aimed at introducing to students the ongoing semantic, lexical, syntactic, and culturological processes of modern Russian speech, in the historical perspective.

The Language and Mentality teaching materials based on the lectures by Professor Vladimir Kolesov have been developed at the Faculty of Philology, St. Petersburg State University. This course is primarily aimed at introducing to students the main Russian national concepts related to major categories of human social life, at presenting the systemic links between these concepts that form common national world view reflected in the language and various texts.