Grammar is difficult and not very fun. However, without thorough knowledge in the proper use of forms of nouns, forms of their kind, with its agreement with the words that it causes or they substitute, communication becomes ridiculous and we risk being misunderstood. Therefore, we intend to draw attention to the problems of identifying gender of nouns in Russian. The idea of writing appeared when I found out that there are difficulties identifying gender of the noun in both groups of foreign students studying Russian, and in groups of students who come from schools with teaching in Russian.