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This study presents an analysis of nods and blinks as non-verbal markers of feedback in Russian dialogue. The aim of the work was to determine what illocutionary functions (attention, understanding, affirmation) these gestures perform in different contexts. The analysis was conducted on the Multimedia Corpus of the Russian Language (MURCO), from which 199 dialogue fragments with 311 gestures (nods, blinks, nods with blinks) were selected. The correlation between the type of gesture, its position in the dialogue, and the illocutionary function was analyzed. The results showed that a single nod is often used as an affirmative response, a repeated nod with a blink expresses understanding, and a nod with a blink in general can reflect an increased degree of agreement. It was also found that the position of the gesture in the dialogue is related to the listener’s degree of agreement.