BasicLatex-ru Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA v. 4.0) License version 1.0 The textbook "Basic LaTeX" was published by the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI in 2021. The publication is intended for students, postgraduates and scientists. The book describes the resources of the standard LaTeX2e. The basic techniques of text and formulas layout, creating graphics and tables, forming a bibliography, table of contents and subject index are considered. The book contains a large amount of reference data collected in tables as well as an extensive index. version 2.0 The second edition is expanded to include discussion of the following resources: – creating indices using the xindex package; – creating chemical formulae using the chemformula package; – font management within the NFSS; – TrueType and OpenType font management using the fontspec package; – math extensions of the mathtools package; – creating math formulae using the unicode-math package; – layout of reports and dissertations according to Russian GOSTs. version 2.1 Text editing, typo correction: – fixed typos and formatting errors; – edited discussion of the thesis layout at the end of Appendix G. Alexey Kuznetsov MailToKuznetsov@gmail.com