Formation of intercultural communicative competence is one of the most important linguodidactic issues of modern language education in the whole of Europe or even all over the world. Although this requirement is very strong, its practical implementation in lessons of Russian as a foreign language in the Czech educational environment does not always correspond to the degree of theoretical development in pedagogical documents or scientific literature.
In this article, we show the possibilities of using comparison of Czech and Russian folk literature in the formation of the intercultural communicative competence in teaching Russian language.