As a language and cultural phenomenon, humor is a special form of verbal communication. Russian humor is an important part of the world’s cultural landscape, is the reproduction of normal of prescriptive nationl culture, reflcting the cultural attitudes and the life attitudes of Russian people. This paper introduces the definition of humor, constrast between humor and their similar concepts “joke” and “satirize”, cultural analysis of humor and humorous function, trying to learn from the perspective of lingual culture to analyse the cultural connotations carried by russian humours, discourse the role of russian humours in verbal communication, accordingly to reveal the russian cultural values and attitudes in russian humors.