Russian Learners' Dictionary: 10,000 Russian Words in Frequency Order - Softcover

..."this dictionary can function as a useful yardstick by which they can guage their development and 'fill in' gaps in their basic wordstock. It can be a particularly valuable resource for the language instructor faced with the daunting task of facilitating vocabulary aquisition." -"Language, 1998

This dictionary contains 10,000 Russian words in order of importance starting with the most common and finishing with words that occur about 8 times in a million. All the words have English translations, many have examples of usage and the entries include information on stress and grammatical irregularities. There is also a complete alphabetical index to the words in the list.
A learner who knows all or most of these 10,000 words can be regarded as competent in Russian for all normal purposes. The list takes you from a beginner's core vocabulary through to postgraduate level.