Russian Resources
by
Sophie Lubensky, Sarah Kuntz, and Christy Wyatt
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Slavic and Eurasian Program
University at Albany - State University of New York
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Slavic and Eurasian Program
University at Albany - State University of New York
Last updated: April 2002.
Contents
Sher's Russian Index
All-embracing list of lists, many of which are also
lists of lists.
RussNet
Curricular and language study materials, job opportunities,
etc.
http://library.albany.edu/internet/engines.html
University at Albany Library's comprehensive list of internet search engines.
Yandex
Search engine, providing links to a wide variety of
topics on Russian-language sites.
It has a virtual keyboard available under "Russification" on the English version of the
homepage and under the heading А ТАКЖЕ, "Русская клавиатура."
Artemij Lebedev's Dictionary of Abbreviations
Russian language site provides explanations of abbreviations both new and old in the
Former Soviet Union, and a link to an English language acronym finder
(http://www.acronymfinder.com). Is NOT case sensitive.
Dal’s dictionary with contemporary
spellings.
Современное написание слов.
Републикация выполнена на основе II издания
(1880-1882 гг.) (Win-1251).
Ozhegov
Online
By putting transliterated words in brackets when
searching, the database will return
the results in Cyrillic (if KOI8 or Win Cyrillic has been selected in the box in the lower
right of the page).
The computer database and
interface systems were developed by S. A. Starostin and
Yu. Bronnikov.
The transliteration system used for searching this database differs from the
transliteration systems accepted in the US (the Library of Congress transliteration
system, MLA, etc.):
| а - a | к - k | х - kh |
| б - b | л - l | ц - c |
| в - v | м - m | ч - ch |
| г - g | н - n | ш - sh |
| д - d | о - o | щ - shh |
| е - je | п - p | ъ - ` |
| е" - jo | р - r | ы - y |
| ж - zh | с - s | ь - ' |
| з - z | т - t | э - e |
| и - i | у - u | ю - ju |
| й - j | ф - f | я - ja |
If it doesn't work, check and make sure you transliterated
a word correctly.
Polnyj elektronnyj orfograficheskij slovar' po redaktsiej V.V. Lopatina
This dictionary provides orthographic information, including verb conjugations.
In addition to the above dictionary, this site (http://slovari.gramota.ru/) contains links
to a number of dictionaries. The stressed vowels are conveniently shown in red.
Lingvo Online (© ABBYY Software House).
English-Russian/Russian-English dictionary provides equivalents, collocations, idioms
and verbal government. To access the online dictionary, click on the site's Lingvo
Online link (or access it directly by pointing your browser to
http://www.lingvo.ru/lingvo/translate.asp.) In using the online dictionary, type word in
dialog box and click on "perevod".
MultiLex
English-Russian/Russian-English On-line Dictionary (MediaLingua)
Includes the famous three-volume “New Comprehensive
English-Russian Dictionary”,
published in the paper form by “Russky Yazyk” Publishers in 1993 under the
editorship of academician
Y.D. Apresyan and E.M. Mednikova.
The stressed vowels are conveniently shown in red.
English-Russian Dictionary
(© Stanislav Sinyagin).
The dictionary provides not only individual words,
but also numerous collocations,
and includes such areas as trade, economics, etc.
Grammatical Dictionaries:
Zalizniak's
Dictionary
See the Ozhegov entry
for information on how to make search queries.
The computer database and
interface systems were developed by S. A. Starostin
and Yu. Bronnikov.
The Russian Dictionary Tree: a learner's grammatical dictionary created at Cornell
University by Slava Paperno and Richard L. Leed. "This 12,000-entry dictionary
allows you to search for a Russian or English word, and gives you all the forms and
all the endings for every word. Unlike many electronic dictionaries, it is not an
abridged version of a printed dictionary. On the contrary, definitions are far more
detailed, and many entries contain examples and extensive notes on style and usage."
This page is constructed with frames--for a search of a Russian word, using Internet
Explorer make sure that the bottom frame containing the virtual keyboard is encoded
with Cyrillic (Windows) by right-clicking inside that frame and checking the Encoding
option.
Dictionary of Religion (in Russian)
English-Russian Dictionary of Computer Terms (Win-1251)
The Russian Biographical Dictionary (Win 1251). Based on the work of Brockhaus
and Efron. Available online and free with multimedia (photos, even lots of brief audio
clips).
Universal Encyclopedia by Cyril and Methodius. In Russian. Specialty encyclopedias
also available at this site. Works well with Internet Explorer.
Encyclopedia Krugosvet. Many specialty encyclopedias available here.
Americana: English-Russian Encyclopedic Dictionary
Russian-language site devoted to explanation of all things American.
Economic Encyclopedia (KOI8). Entirely in Russian
English & Russian Grammar for Russian Students by Jill Pommrehn (Denver University).
Beginning Russian Grammar: (only works with Internet Explorer 5) A complete online
grammar for first-year Russian students; adapted from Slavica Publisher's venerable
textbook by Leed, Nakhimovsky, and Nakhimovsky.
Interactive Russian Reference Grammar with Java exercises by Robert Beard.
Catcode
This tutorial is designed
as a beginning point for a casual learner. It does not require
any special Russian fonts or software. This tutorial requires Netscape Navigator 3.0
or above or Internet Explorer™®© 4.0 or above.
Site also has sound—follow the instructions given
on the home page.
Read the Russian Alphabet (for beginners)
George Mitrevski--Russian
Web Tutor (Win 1251)
Nachalo, Book One, Lessons 1-8, exercises.
Beginning
Russian Through Film: (From the Russian Language Program at Cornell
University).
Hundreds of episodes from
Russian films, with transcripts, glosses, and linguistic and cultural
comments (requires at least
a cable modem connection).
Lora’s Dialogs. Lora Paperno's 600 mini-conversations.
Only available for use with Internet Explorer 5.
Slava Paperno, Alexander D. Nakhimovsky, Alice S. Nakhimovsky, and Richard
L. Leed:
Intermediate
Russian: The Twelve Chairs, 1985. 12 Chairs Interactive: Multimedia CD-ROM
This is a description of this resource.
M. Zoshchenko: Twelve
Stories, selected and annotated for English-speaking students by Lesli
LaRocco and Slava Paperno, 1990. Companion
Software.
This is a description of this resource.
George Washington University's
project LANGUAGE ACROSS THE CURRICULUM.
Reading texts are annotated: novice, intermediate, intermediate/advanced,
advanced.
Texts are supplemented by exercises.
Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty
This site provides current news and has an archive
of its broadcasts (written transcripts in
Russian with Real Audio files), making it possible
to listen and read some programs simultaneously
(look for 
or 
). To access
these archives select "Аудио архив" in the ЭФИР box. A
selection of series will appear. Select a
program, then scroll down the next screen to select an
individual broadcast whose titles/links are in dark
blue. The text will appear and the audio
options
will display at the top of
the text. Click on the preferred option to listen to the broadcast,
while
reading the text.
Russian
Language Learning on the Web (A joint
project between the University of Sussex and
the London School of Economics
and Politics) This site has the text of short
stories by Pushkin,
Gogol, Tolstoy, and Blok accompanied
by a reading of the text in an audio file (click on the audio
button to the left of the
text). Also available translations of the text side by side with
the Russian,
history, criticism, as well
as exercises...
Mednyj
Vsadnik: A Real Audio recording of the
poem, with links to annotated text and historical
information. Read
by Lora Paperno.
TVC
Has Real Player/Audio and
text of daily news as well as an archive of older broadcasts. (Win-1251)
Transparent.com Internet Language Community
Multiple choice test, containing 52 questions, is made up of grammar, vocabulary, and
reading comprehension sections.
Публичная электронная
библиотека Евгения Пескина:
Блок, Булгаков, Гоголь, Грин, Гончаров, Достоевский,
Есенин, Лермонтов,
Пушкин, Салтыков-Щедрин, Толстой, Тургенев, Фет,
Чехов.
Friends and Partners
Anna Akhmatova and Sasha Chernyi (KOI8)
Litera.ru
This site holds a selection of poems from a number
of authors. Sound recordings of readings
of select poems are available under Звуки
поэзии--литературный аудио архив, found on the
right of the screen. Where simultaneous listening
and reading of the text are possible the word
стихи or
стихотворение
will
appear after the title of the recording. An example of how
to do this:
Click on Звуки поэзии--литературный
аудио архив, select Joseph Brodsky's Строфы,
Real Audio will bring up the
sound file, minimize Real Audio, then click on стихотворение
(which
will bring up a table of contents
of Brodsky's works) and select the text for Строфы. This will
allow you to read the text accompanied by Brodsky's reading.
Poetry
Anna Akhmatova and Joseph Brodsky (Osip Mandelstam
and Yevgeny Yevtushenko to be
added soon). Portrait, bio, selected bibliography,
audio recordings where possible, a list of other
online exhibits.
Slavic
and East European Book Sources. Compiled by Jeff Holdeman.
List of bookstores
carrying Russian and Slavic related materials with links to bookstores'
websites where available.
Bibliofind.com
Some booksellers do have Russian-language books,
but it is a matter of carefully reading search
entries to find them. This bookseller, in particular, has Russian-language items: International
Books - Multilingual Resources. Also, link to Library of Congress and catalogs of university
libraries.
RussianThings
Russian Publishing House,
DBA RussianThings.com, is an American corporation based in New
York and distributing in the USA books and periodicals from the best and the most reputable
publishing houses from Russia. (Win-1251)
The Russian State Library (former Lenin
Library)
In English at http://portico.bl.uk/gabriel/en/countries/russia_sl.html
National Library of Russia (St. Petersburg)
Internet-gazeta
Offers current news
in Russian, but also has a limited international (English) edition.
Komsomolskaia pravda (in Russian)
Textology.ru
Russian language on-line journal (Win-1251).
Note: the heading 
, in
particular, offers
interesting links.
or ). To access
these archives select "Аудио архив" in the ЭФИР box. A
Baltic Plus Radio Station Live broadcast from Kaliningrad, 24-hours a day.
Radio of Russia On Vesti site, click on Радио России to get live broadcasts.
(Requires Windows Media Player)
Echo of Moscow Click on Real Audio icon on left side of page to listen to live broadcasts.
See also Audio Resources
On-line Russian language film art magazine (published monthly).
Russian
Painting
An impressive site in English with pages for icons,
18th, 19th, and
20th century Russian painting by Alexander Boguslawski.
Vladimir Vysotskii—The Official Site. Audio files from interviews and performances. Includes text
fragments with audio from other performers, such as Voznesenskii, as well. (Win 1251 and Real
Player)
Meeting of Frontiers (The Library of Congress). In Russian and English.
The World Factbook. Information on Russia with figures and numbers. CIA Publications. In English.
National
Geographic Map Machine
Russia House
1800 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
Tel. 202-986-6010, Fax 202-667-4244
E-mail: Russia@RussiaHouse.org
American Councils for International Education
Click on Employment link.
RussNet
Russian Jobs network created by Erik Blender of
Bryn Mawr College.
AAASS--American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
ACTR--American Council of Teachers of Russian.
Fingertip Software
Page of language links and an offering of Cyrillic
software: Central European Starter Kit,
Academic Russian Starter Kit, Cyrillic Starter Kit,
Cyrillic Font Pack 1, Cyrillic Support for
Windows, Cyrillic Central 3.0, Multilingual Proofing
Tools for Microsoft Word, Keytop Labels
and Keyboards Software on sale Cyrillic.com