Аннотация:This paper discusses the process of hand movement annotation in the context of multichannel discourse, based on a multichannel corpus of Russian conversations. The detailed annotation scheme that has been developed for the corpus is described, along with the corresponding annotation procedure. Hand movement in its entirety is treated as a complex combination of different (in)activities that must first be segmented and described as more elementary kinetic units, based on their kinetic characteristics (effort, velocity, trajectory, movement direction, etc.). After this first step, the segmented units or units' combinations may be interpreted as gestures or other types of manual behavior (stillness intervals of different kinds, hand posture changes, adaptors and so on), relying not only on their kinetic form, but also on their function in discourse. The resulting multilevel annotation may be used for researching interdependencies between manual behavior and other channels in multichannel discourse.