The article outlines the conception of the lexical pragmatics Dictionary of Russian language that was formulated while working on research project “Vocabulary of Russian language with a pragmatic component of semantics”. The pragmatic component of the word is a phenomenon in which the national specifics of lan-guage is manifested. Those implicit elements of meaning (including evaluative, emotive, expres-sive, cultural connotations, etc.) that constitute the pragmatic component of the word often cause communicative mistakes in the speech practice of native speakers and foreigners. Successful communication requires possession of the information about pragmatic properties of the words, i.e., about pragmatic competence. The article determines the novelty of this Dictionary and its correlation to the preceding lexi-cographic tradition, the Dictionary tasks, sources, and main parameters (aspects) of the descrip-tion of a lexical unit.