The specific features of study of gender category of the Russian language as a foreign language in mono-national audience

The specific features of study of gender category of the Russian language by non-native speaker learners are considered. It is underlined that the fundamental complexities occur in the audience where this category is absent in the native language. It is emphasized that it is important not only to give the knowledge of the grammar rules but to teach to use them in correspondence with the life circumstances and to include the gender characteristics in the natural speech stream.