The reference book, created on the basis of the famous “Handbook of Spelling and Literary Editing” by D. E. Rosenthal, is devoted to issues of spelling, punctuation, pronunciation and literary editing of the text. In the third edition of the reference book, typos and stylistic errors have been corrected, certain wording and examples have been changed. Reference book intended for media workers, editors, authors, translators, as well as for a wide range of readers interested in issues of Russian language culture. Can be used as a guide for applicants. In preparing the electronic version of the book, materials located at spelling spb. ru/rosenthal/alpha/index. htmThe text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.