This data set contains the 99 most frequent adjectives of Russian, according to the main subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus (https://ruscorpora.ru). The distributional semantics of nouns in the fiction subcorpus was calculated and they were clustered based on that. From this, the attestations of the 99 adjectives when used attributively with nouns were also clustered into semantic categories semi-automatically with some manual corrections.