The kinetics of radical copolymerization of sodium 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane-1-sulfonate with N-vinylpyrrolidone in water, water3dimethylformamide (1 : 1) solutions, and dimethylformamide at pH 9 and 60oC in the presence of initiators [azobis(isobutyronitrile) and ammonium persulfate] was studied by dilatometry.The reaction medium strongly affects both the kinetic parameters of copolymerization of salts of 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane-1-sulfonic acid (H-AMS) with N-vinylpyrrolidone (VP) and the properties of the resulting copolymers. This is due to the features in the behavior of ionic monomers [1, 2] and nonionic VP monomer [3,4] in the processes of radical (co)polymerization. Previously we studied copolymerization of sodium 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane-1-sulfonate (Na-AMS) with VP in aqueous [537] and dimethyl sulfoxide [8] solutions and examined how the ionic strength of the solution and kind of mono-[9, 10] and bivalent [10,11] cations affect the copolymerization in aqueous solutions.