diff --git a/packages/basic-crawler/src/internals/basic-crawler.ts b/packages/basic-crawler/src/internals/basic-crawler.ts
index 76f8dbabde55..30e63887aa05 100644
--- a/packages/basic-crawler/src/internals/basic-crawler.ts
+++ b/packages/basic-crawler/src/internals/basic-crawler.ts
@@ -587,6 +587,7 @@ export class BasicCrawler<Context extends CrawlingContext = BasicCrawlingContext
     protected static optionsShape = {
         requestList: ow.optional.object.validate(validators.requestList),
         requestQueue: ow.optional.object.validate(validators.requestQueue),
+        requestManager: ow.optional.object.validate(validators.requestManager),
         // Subclasses override this function instead of passing it
         // in constructor, so this validation needs to apply only
         // if the user creates an instance of BasicCrawler directly.
diff --git a/packages/core/src/validators.ts b/packages/core/src/validators.ts
index 3a1103e7102d..098666eb8d19 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/validators.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/validators.ts
@@ -20,4 +20,8 @@ export const validators = {
         validator: ow.isValid(value, ow.object.hasKeys('fetchNextRequest', 'addRequest')),
         message: (label: string) => `Expected argument '${label}' to be a RequestQueue, got something else.`,
     }),
+    requestManager: (value: Dictionary) => ({
+        validator: ow.isValid(value, ow.object.hasKeys('fetchNextRequest', 'addRequest', 'addRequestsBatched')),
+        message: (label: string) => `Expected argument '${label}' to be an IRequestManager, got something else.`,
+    }),
 };
diff --git a/test/core/crawlers/basic_crawler.test.ts b/test/core/crawlers/basic_crawler.test.ts
index dfb480e2c407..a9865a688064 100644
--- a/test/core/crawlers/basic_crawler.test.ts
+++ b/test/core/crawlers/basic_crawler.test.ts
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ import {
     RequestValidationError,
     Router,
 } from '@crawlee/basic';
-import { RequestState, SessionPool, Statistics } from '@crawlee/core';
+import { RequestManagerTandem, RequestState, SessionPool, Statistics } from '@crawlee/core';
 import type { Dictionary } from '@crawlee/utils';
 import { RobotsTxtFile, sleep } from '@crawlee/utils';
 import express from 'express';
@@ -95,6 +95,23 @@ describe('BasicCrawler', () => {
         expect(process.listenerCount('SIGINT')).toBe(count - 1);
     });
 
+    test('should accept a request manager and crawl from it', async () => {
+        const requestList = await RequestList.open(null, ['https://example.com/1']);
+        const requestQueue = await RequestQueue.open();
+        const processed: string[] = [];
+
+        const basicCrawler = new BasicCrawler({
+            requestManager: new RequestManagerTandem(requestList, requestQueue),
+            requestHandler: async ({ request }) => {
+                processed.push(request.url);
+            },
+        });
+
+        await basicCrawler.run();
+
+        expect(processed).toEqual(['https://example.com/1']);
+    });
+
     test('should run in parallel thru all the requests', async () => {
         const sources = [...Array(500).keys()].map((index) => ({ url: `https://example.com/${index}` }));
         const sourcesCopy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(sources));