Russian Links

Language Study

An Introduction to Russian Step-by-step tutorial on the Russian alphabet, with exercises.
Belarusian-Bulgarian-Russian-English Basic Phrases Comparison of basic phrases in 4 languages.
Gramota.ru Dictionaries, grammars, style guides, exercises and games.
Learn to Read Russian Introduction to the Russian alphabet.
Master Russian Large collection of links for learners of Russian from beginning to advanced level.
NCLRC Russian Webcasts Simplified news bulletins read very slowly, with transcripts and vocabulary.
Russian English Dictionary Russian English Dictionary.
Russian Language Learning Website Listen to and study works by Pushkin, Gogol, Tolsoy and Blok.
Russian Textbook Comprehensive language course.
Russian Web Tutor Variety of learning resources including grammar tutorials and exercises.
Scola Insta-Class: Russian Weekly lessons consisting of audio and video clips of authentic news broadcasts that have been transcribed and translated with accompanying exercises and vocabulary.
TravLang Russian for Travelers Basic words and phrases, with audio.
Wikipedia - Russian Encyclopedia article on the Russian language.

Dictionaries & Translation Tools

Babylon Russian-English Dictionary
Cловари русского языка для скачивания Over 30 different Russian dictionaries available for downloading.
Ectaco Russian-English Dictionary
English-Russian Dictionary
FreeDict Russian-English Dictionary
FreeLang Russian-English Dictionary Free software for Windows.
Gramota.ru Dictionaries Variety of monolingual Russian dictionaries.
Multitran Variety of multilingual Russian dictionaries.
Multitran English-Russian Dictionary
Prompt Online Automatic translation of Russian to and from English, French, German and Spanish.
Webster's Online Russian English Dictionary

Grammar Reference

Online Reference Grammar Comprehensive grammar by Robert Beard, Bucknell University.

Literature

201 Stories by Anton Chekhov Complete collection of Constance Garnett's English translations of stories by Anton Chekhov.
Biblioteka Komarova Online library of classic literary texts.
Biblioteka Maksima Moshkova Large collection of electronic texts in many different genres.
Biblioteka Serann Literary texts in Russian, including works translated from other languages.
Complete Works of Dostoevsky Dostoevsky resources including texts, information and analysis.
Conradish.net Large collection of Russian literary texts with dictionary look-up facility.
Leonid Andreev Site devoted to the life and work of Leonid Andreev. Includes a comprehensive collection his writings in the form of freely downloadable electronic texts.
LibriVox Free Audiobooks Literary recordings produced by volunteers from works already in the public domain. Available in MP3 and Ogg audio formats.
Marina Tsvetaeva Selected poems with parallel English translations by Andrey Kneller.
Mayakovsky and His Circle A source of information and images for Mayakovsky, Khlebnikov and their contemporaries. Literary works in both Russian and English.
Medny Vsadnik Annotated text and recording of The Bronze Horseman by Aleksandr Pushkin.
Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov Poems and prose by Lermontov with some English translations and a short biography.
Ostrovok Classics Poetry and prose by Lermontov, Pushkin, Chekhov, Bulgakov and Zoshchenko.
Publichnaya Elektronnaya Biblioteka Collection of classic Russian literary texts.
Russian Literature List of links related to Russian authors and their works.
Russkaya Virtualnaya Biblioteka Large collection of Russian literary texts, including the complete works of Pushkin and Dostoevsky.
University of Virginia Electronic Texts Osip Mandelstam's Tristia presented in Russian with an adjacent English translation.
WordTheque - Logos Translations Multilingual Library Searchable electronic texts available for download.

Newspapers & Magazines

Gazeta.Ru
Izvestia
News and Newspapers Online: Russian List of online newspapers in Russian.
Nezavisimaya Gazeta
Pravda.Ru

Television & Radio

BBC Russian Service News and current affairs, including streamed radio broadcasts in Russian.
Deutsche Welle Russian Service Radio and television webcasts with programme transcripts.
Radio Mayak Russian news, culture and sport, including recordings of political interviews with transcripts.
Svoboda News Russian language radio station with audio on demand, podcasts, and programme transcripts.

Politics, History, Society & Culture

BBC News Country Profiles: Russia Outline of Russian society, politics and history with essential facts & figures.
Russian Kafe Daily links to interesting Russia-related articles (in English).

Fonts & Character Encoding

Automatic Cyrillic Converter Converts Cyrillic text from one character encoding to another.

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