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The presentation analyzes challenges the team of authors and editors faced in compiling a book “Russian English: History. Features. Functions” (2016). The challenges can be grouped into organizational (writing a project, creating a team, cooperating with the publisher), ideological (approving the title and conception of the book), psychological (working with authors), crosscultural (comparative relevance of objects for description), and linguistic (international comprehensibility). The experience we have gained might be interesting for other scholars, as well as book authors and editors who combine the effort of writers from different countries, even though they might represent the same culture as it happened in our case.