The main tasks of the Union are:
Preservation of a unified cultural, literary and information field in the Russian Federation;
promoting the preservation and development of the Russian language and literature, as well as languages and literatures of other peoples of the multinational Russian Federation;
fulfilment of the needs of the peoples of the world wishing to get acquainted with the Russian language and literature;
creation of conditions for the realisation of creative abilities of Union members and aspiring writers;
Strengthening the creative commonwealth of writers of the Russian Federation and other countries of the world.