Russian Studies
This guide provides a general introduction to library and information resources for all those studying, teaching and researching on topics relating to Russia. Please note the additional information on the left hand navigation.
Learning Russian
- Liden & Denz Provides online Russian language courses as well as Russian course books the "I Love Russian" course book series. It also has a free Online Test to test your current level of Russian.
Dictionaries
- Dictionaries and encyclopedias at Academician Links to several hundred dictionaries and encyclopedias in multiple languages on many subject areas
- Lexilogos Russian dictionary Includes Russian dictionary, Russian-English dictionary, English-Russian dictionary, Russian-English translation
- ScriptSource ScriptSource is a dynamic, collaborative reference to the writing systems of the world, with detailed information on scripts, characters, languages - and the remaining needs for supporting them in the computing realm. It is sponsored, developed and maintained by SIL International.
News media
- St. Petersburg Times (archive) Last archive of the paper's website, 21 March 2015
History and politics
Literature and culture
- Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) -- Presidential Library The collection dedicated to Alexander Pushkin comprises electronic copies of books, articles, archive documents, thesis abstracts, video films, visual and other resources.
- Lyubimovka Festival of Contemporary Drama An independent non-commercial collective project of Russian young playwrights (the under 40s). The plays are written in Russian but from all over the former USSR.
- Russian Poets of the 20th Century Containing poems in Russian and biographies of six of the major Silver Age poets: Aleksandr Blok, Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandelshtam, Marina Tsvetaeva and VladimirMayakovsky.
- Russian Satirical Journals Digital collection of early 20th-century Russian political and satirical journals held in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. These journals are, for the most part, representative of political and satirical journals published during the small window of relative press freedom which existed in Russia from the Imperial Decree (Ukaz) on the press issued on November 24th (Old Style), 1905 until new stricter press regulations were issued on March 18th (Old Style), 1906.
- SovLit Containing Soviet 20th century literary journals, many of whose texts are available online, including those of journals such as LEF and Krasnaia nov’.
Russian art
- Russian Archives Online - explore & license media from Russian Archives Russian Archives Online (RAO) is an online collection of Russian and Soviet-related archives and other sources of film footage, photographs, and fine art featuring support materials and robust archival search engine.
Library catalogues and repositories
- Directory of Open Access Repositories - Russia Links to 48 institutional repositories in Russia