Anna Kudyma is Senior Lecturer in Russian and Ukrainian at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. She is the author of the textbook Russian: From Novice High to Intermediate and co-author of several other titles, including the second edition of V Puti. She holds an MA in Russian language pedagogy and a Ph.D. in linguistics.

Olga Kagan was Professor of Russian at UCLA, USA.

Frank Miller was Professor of Russian at Columbia University, USA.

Michael Lavery is Assistant Professor of Russian at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He is a co-author (with Anna Kudyma, Frank Miller, and Olga Kagan) of Beginner's Russian.