Russian Links

Note: To read some of these, you will need a cyrillic font such as KOI-8, which you can get through some of these sites. And remember that things in the NIS are changing - including home pages, sites, and the like. Although this page is updated frequently, not all links will be up and working at any one time.

A Great General Site

  • Benjamin Sher's Russian Web Site

    The Media

  • Actually listen to the News in Russian from Radio Canada. If you need an audio utility, get one from RealAudio - they tell you how to put it on your system.

    Radio

  • Voice of Russia
  • TASS

    News Stories

  • Art, economics, news, law, demographics
  • Magazines and news in Russian
  • St. Petersburg, with St. Pete's Press in English
  • Russia NIS Home Page : your first stop for info about the Newly Independent States.
  • Russian Story: links to lots of Russian newspapers and magazines.
  • Russian Story: links to lots of Russian newspapers and magazines. Newspapers cover politics, government, arts, culture, family, sports and entertainment. Also offers a Russian search engine.
  • Russia on the Net : contains links to other Russian WWW servers, weather, news, entertainment and more.
  • News : daily Russian news available. You need to have a Russian font to view them.

    Language, Culture and Literature

    Dictionaries

  • Russian Language Pictionary Dictionary : a nice beginners resource. This site teaches basic vocabulary contextually by using pictures, the Russian word and sound files pronouncing it.. Best seen with Netscape 2.0 or higher configured for an audio player.
  • Dictionary : type in a word in Russian and find its meaning with this Russian English dictionary.
  • Another W3 in Russian if you didn't find it at the one above check this one out.
  • A couple of English/Russian Dictionaries
  • Russian Dictionary with sound!
  • Dictionary of Russian obscenities: in Lexicon and KOI-8 formats at the Ohio Supercomputing Center.
  • English-Russian /Russian-English Dictionary KOI8 format
  • Russian and Soviet History and Culture
  • Dictionaries, Russian Holdings

    Language

  • SAPE: looking for a penpal from the former Soviet Union and Baltic nations? Sign up here.

    Teaching Russian

  • The ATSEEL Journal and teachers' organization
  • The web page of the Minnesota Council of Teachers of Russian
  • The Russian Teacher Resource Exchange

    Literature

  • The World-Wide Web Virtual Library : Russian Language and Literature Resources
  • Slavic Review at the U. Penn.
  • Russian text corpora, by George Fowler. Comprised of about 14 MB of various literary and non-literary texts.
  • Mike Kelly's K12-Russian ftp archive. Contains a large number of literature files: Chekhov's Dama S Sobachkoj, Pushkin's "Bronze Horseman", Some aphorisms of Kozma Prutkov, Evgenii Evtushenko's poem "Okno vykhodit na belye derev'ya", Aleksandr Blok's poem "Ocennie Plyaski", Anton Chekov's "Smert', etc.
  • Russian Myth: Diabol, Domovoi, Dragon, Elfs, Gnomes, etc. UNC
  • Russian Literature: fiction, poetry, etc. Collected and housed by Sergei Naoumov at UNC
  • Russian Literature Large collection of links to Russian literature resources. Maintained by J. Kyle Banerjee.
  • Russian Literature at Friends and Partners. Features Anna Akhmatova, Sasha Cherniy etc.
  • Poems of Igor Irtenyev, maintained by Julia Ilyutovich
  • The Chernobyl Poems of Lyubov Sirota. By Paul Brians
  • The electronic text of Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov is housed on the Virginia Tech gopher. Also here are Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and War and Peace.
  • Top Science Fiction And Fantasy Works Rated by Russians

    Culture

  • Karelia : download a Cyrillic font first and you will really enjoy this journey. This site contains nice pictures and info on this northern region of Russia.
  • Sensitive map of Russia : link to an info server in the region of Russia you select on the map. Much of the info is in Russian. Large graphic may download slowly.

    Museums and Art Galleries

    Museums

  • The Pushkin Museum of Fine ArtsOne of the major art collections in Russia, exhibiting foreign works of arts ranging from ancient times to the present."
  • The Russian Paleontological Institute MuseumThe world's largest paleontology museum helped to create on-line exhibit of Mongolian dinosaurus, Pleistocene and Tertiary mammals, and of Museum itself -- available as part of Virtual Museum at Berkely.
  • Art Gallery "Stalker"Includes showing and selling original works of contemporary Russian painters. Representing: Andrey Vystropov, Vladislav Koval, Georgi Matevosjan, Andrey Fedorov, Nikolai Romanov. You can get information about artists' personal and professional histories, their working methods and art exhibitions.
  • Soviet ArchivesProvided by the Library of Congress. "The material in the exhibit offers only a small suggestion of what the vast archives of the paper-intensive Soviet era may eventually reveal."
  • Russian MuseumsVisit new Russian museums on the Internet
  • Treasurers of the CzarsVirtual museum tour. Presented by the Florida International Museum.
  • Mikhail Petrenko GalleryA collection of drawings and paintings by a recently emigrated Russian artist.
  • Kandinsky, WassilyRussian-born artist. One of the first creators of pure abstraction in modern painting." Provided by Web Museum, Paris.
  • The State Hermitage, St.PetersburgA recently created site in the famouse museum
  • Interactive Journal "Art Petersburg".Literature, Fine Arts, Music, Theater etc.
  • Guelman's GalleryThe most popular modern art gallery in Moscow. (Russian KOI-8)

    Galleries

  • Guelman's Gallery The most popular modern art gallery in Moscow.(Russian language)
  • St.Petersburg Pictures Gallery Take a look at the beautiful city.
  • Novgorod Icon Gallery You cannot understand the Russian soul without knowing the Russian icon.
  • LVALUE Art Gallery The artists who are participating in this exhibition are of different schools, different ages and different countries - including several from Russia and other countries of the NIS.

    Travel and General Information

  • Fonts; Information about Russia
  • General Information on Russia and E. Europe
  • Info for business folks traveling in Russia
  • Virtual Tour of Moscow
  • Soviet Union Information
  • Many fine Russian Links from TransNational
  • Kopyc - Ekaterinburg
  • Palaces of St. Petersburg
  • An Excursion through the Kremlin
  • (Nearly) Complete Guide to Russia

    Business

  • Business opportunities
  • Business, Russian Servers, etc.
  • Data Service, Engineering

    Education and Government

  • Library of Congress Soviet Archives Exhibit : This great site offers a tour of the Soviet archives exhibit by the Library of Congress. Includes legible photos of original documents along with their English translations.
  • Russian Academy of Science, with WWW Servers
  • Russian Consulate General, and other official addresses
  • Russian government, business, education

    Fonts, Miscellaneous

  • KOI-8 Fonts
  • SovInformBureau, Goings-On in Russia, Cyrillic Fonts, and more
  • Servers in Russia, Eastern Europe, & Newly Independent States
  • The Russian Liberal Movement
  • A Russian gives guidance about servers, recipes & more

    Other Russian Web Pages

  • Window to Russia HomePage : contains links to works of Russian artists, culture, language, business and country info.
  • Russian Study Materials :links to audio of Russia World Service, Russian art and architecture, commerce, cinema, the embassy, and much more. Also provides a link to Cyrillic fonts.
  • Slavic Languages and Literature :this departmental page at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has some great links. Of particular interest to learners would be the links in popular sites and goodies.
  • South High's Russian Page,Minneapolis
  • Birmingham's Russian Page
  • Russian Studies, Language & Literature