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A Comprehensive Russian Grammar is an English-language grammar of Russian by Terence Wade, first published in 1992 by Blackwell.

The book's third edition begins with an introduction describing the Cyrillic alphabet, and explaining the phonology of Russian using the International Phonetic Alphabet; it also deals with punctuation and orthography, including the spelling rules. The next section describes the formation, gender and declension of nouns, as well as the usage of the language's cases, and diminutives and augmentatives. Then, personal, possessive, interrogative, relative and negative pronouns are detailed, as well as indefinite pronouns ending in -то (-to) and -нибудь (-nibud) – which Wade describes as a "perennial problem" for English speakers. The section on adjectives deals first with long forms, then short forms, then comparatives and superlatives. After discussing cardinal, ordinal, collective and indefinite numerals, Wade devotes over a quarter of the book to verbs: first conjugation, then aspect. Wade moves on to impersonal verbs, the passive voice, the conditional and subjunctive moods, and verbs of motion. Participles and gerunds end the section on verbs, which is followed by that on adverbs – including an explanation of the difference between тоже (tozhe) and также (takzhe). Wade's treatment of prepositions encompasses spacial and temporal ones, and the cases that they govern. The book then covers the language's coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, and grammatical particles. The final section deals with word order in Russian.

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