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The purpose of this paper is to present the main assumptions of The Learner's Thematic Dictionary of Russian-Polish Lexical Parallels. The article presents a new type of dictionary that describes lexical parallels, i.e. words that are similar phonetically and have full or partial correspondence of meaning or completely different meanings. Target groups of the dictionary users are learners of the Russian and Polish languages, translators, as well as teachers. The first part of the dictionary is devoted to the description of culinary vocabulary. The volume of the dictionary is approximately 300 dictionary entries containing pairs of Russian-Polish lexical parallels. The process of the lexicographic description in the Dictionary assumes the procedure for selecting entries, arranging meanings, creating a dictionary entry, defining, and giving illustrative examples. The paper also highlights the possibilities of applying the principles of multimodality, i.e. attracting multicode objects to improve memorization processes, which are essential in the process of learning a foreign language. The paper has also shown the ways in which to include multimodal components in the Dictionary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]