The current article discusses the experience of Russian language course designing for whose, who came to Russia as labour migrants. This paper shows the specifics of building such course, describes the target group of this course, law and standard documents for designing courses of such type as well as problems occurring during the implementation of the course. The author proposes the description of existing terms in the sphere of foreign language teaching methodics and gives necessary recommendations for the language instructors who work with the groups of labour migrants.