Valentina Valeryevna Epifanova, Candidate of Philological Sciences, is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU). She has over 10 years of experience teaching Russian as a foreign language. She is the author of numerous scholarly and methodological articles on teaching vocabulary and grammar to non-native speakers, as well as various curricula for different proficiency levels in the study of Russian as a foreign language.