The article is a complete description of the basic principles of the “School Dictionary
of the winged words of the Russian language”, which is part of a series of phraseological dictionaries
for schoolchildren, which is compiled at the Faculty of Philology of St. Petersburg State University.
One of the main principles of forming the vocabulary and determining the structure of the vocabulary
has become its focus on the addressee: students of Russian schools, colleges, teachers of secondary
education. To select winged words, the authors relied on the results of an experimental survey of senior schoolchildren and students from different regions of Russia.