Welcome to four major categories (Language, Literature, History, and Culture) plus some other helpful information for those who teach or learn Russia related courses. Click on each category to look at the materials which must be a useful tool in your study.
Many of our links has only Russian version (in
KOI-8 or Win encoding). Thus, it might be necessary for you to read and understand some technical information on how to setup your computer to read and/or to type the Cyrillic script. It would be the best for you to use the latest version of Netscape (Netscape Navigator/Communicator) which finally designed to "recognize" Cyrillic script and saves you a lot of time to adjust your computer to read Russian.

Language

Literature

History

Culture

Technical Info

Pictures' Gallery

Travel News

Multimedia Resources available in our Language Learning Resource Center, 5th floor of the Main Library Building, ph.632-7013,632-6914).

Visit this state-of-the-art Language Learning Research Center and check on the materials that can help you to practice your Russian (or many other languages).
Russian in the Summer'98! It's gonna be
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Language:

AUDIO-VISUAL SOURCES: TV, RADIO, other MEDIA.

TEXTS, GRAMMARS, DICTIONARIES, INTERNET COURSES ON-LINE

OTHER WEB SITES RELATED TO LANGUAGE TEACHING

ORT is a major Russian TV channel

Basic Russian, taught by pictures - can be used by first year Russian students

A site which allows you to link to sites in Russia

Real Video/Audio from Russian NTV+ Channel (Independent TV) / in Russian

More sites on how to learn basic Russian, including one that teaches the alphabet phonetically.

The Russian Site for language teaching.

List of Russia-based radiostations available on web with an easy access to their Homepages.

Some sites to review Russian, includes grammar and vocabulary review, as well as exercises to work on. One program requires . For first and second year Russian students.

This site gives information about other Slavic languages, including Polish, Croatian, Czech, Belorussian, Ukrainian, Old Church Slavonic, Serbian, Bulgarian, and Slovak.

Audio Sources for Intermediate and advanced level.Radio 1 Petrograd On Air in Real Audio.

Improve your Russian Vocabulary with Pictures and Sound

Russian Multimedia Sources for all levels.

Russian Resources from the University of Sussex Language Center (England)

List of Russian News Groups and Mailing Lists

Broadcasting in Russian and 20 other languages by Radio Free Europe

E-mail activities connected to the textbook for beginners: Nachalo. When in Russia...

Russian and Other Human Languages. A good compilation of the sites related to different languages in the world. (Available in many languages)

Russian Media in or in Windows decoding

Russian for tourists is a basic course with an audio help and major conversational expressions

A real Yellow Pages of Russian Sites

News, music and much more from Open Radio

Syllabus with excersises from Russian textbook Golosa

Russian from San-Francisco on WWW News from a Russian community at the west coast.

Dance music from Rusian radio Station 106,8 FM

Relax and read funny Russian dotages from a real life (in Russian).

 

Russian Tele-Satellit with a helpful information on tv satellite channels in Russian

 

 

Radio Modern is one of the leading St.Petersburg's commercial station (in Russian/Win).

 

 


Literature

X - XIX century

End of XIXth - first half of XXth centuries

Modern and Postmodern Period

  1. Leo Tolstoy related Site.
  2. Photograghs of Yasnaya Poliana

Anton Chekhov and his short stories, tales, articles on-line.

Site of Russian literature, including authors such as Solzenitsyn and Akhmatova (in Russian/KO18)

Pushkin site - Pushkin poems in both English and Russian

Bakhtin Center (England)

Russian Poetry Journal

Online library of Alexander Pushkin's poetry and prose

A complete collection of Sergei Esenin's poetry

A good selection of Anna Akhmatova's poetry and the vertual expos from Akhmatova's Museum.

Russian Folklore from the beginning till modern time (in Russian/KOI).

Alexander Vertinsky. His poetry and songs from "Little Russia at San Antonio"

An interesting collection of Victor Pelevin's works and his biography

Three classic works of L.Tolstoy and F.Dostoevsky in English

A perfect collection of Daniil Kharms with illustrations (some stories translated are in translation)

Mikhail Bulgakov, his life and career.

Memorial museum of Pushkin at Arbat, Moscow

 

Modern Literature and Painting from Don

F. M. Dostoevsky and a collection of linx to writer's biography, pictures, novels, diary.

A collection of Chekhov's, Dostoevsky's, A.Fet's, S.Esenin's, and other's works.

Web-site devoted to a great poet Iosif Brodsky

 

 

Iosif Brodsky and his native St.Petersburg

 

 

Nikolay Moiseev and his book "How far till tomorrow. 1917-1993"

 

 

Alexander Galich and some of his works

 

 

An archives of Mikhail Zhvanetsky (in Russian- Win)



Literary Magazines and Societies on-line

Russian on-line Literary Society

A very popular Web Magazine De Lit. Zyne.

Online Library of Russian Literature from Oregon State University

Non-profit project "First Pen" and the best Russian modern writers.

Texts of 17 literary works of Arkadii and Boris Strugatskie

"AntiVavilon" Library and works ofM.Voloshin, F.Dostoevsky, V.Soloviev, and others.

Personal Collection of a Graduate Student Ivanov and his favorite writers

Maxim Moshkov Electronic Library with full texts of Aksenov, Brodsky, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Dovlatov, Bulychev, and others.

Literaturnoe Cafe is a large project of Russian writers (D.Prigov, T.Tolstaya, V.Pelevin, A.Bitov, L.Rubinshtein and others)

Virtual Library of the Russian Club "U Agamy"

Controversial Russian Literature on the Web

 

Russian literature published on-line.

SpecialLibrary of Modern Russian Literarute with new names in the catalogue

This web site is for those who prefer ascience fiction (in Russian)

 



From History to Current News

INTERFAX is an international nonprofit organization that supports independent media resources in Russia

A map of Russia, presented by National Geographic Magazine .

Two good sites about Russian history, from Pre-Petrine Russia until modern times.

Maximov Online provide you with current news and information from the former USSR countries.

A good source of maps and atlas guides of Russia and some other former Soviet countries.

What was the role of Vikings in the history of Russia?

Russia-On-Line. Subject guide (in Russian or English)

Sensitive Russian Map and a list of Russian Web servers

Face to Face with the Russian Czars

Russian World web-site has linx to News, Russian Web, Art, Literature, Musiic, Business, etc.

Web sites dedicated to cities throughout Russia

History, culture and art of a Don Region

Current news from the Russian SovInformBureau

Russian Internet project designed similar to Yahoo and can be a good source of browsing Russian servers.

Interactive Guide of Russian History

Business people can read, listen and watch for the current news on Russia Today

Relis Online (RELcom Information System) serves as a perfect resource on many sides of Russian life.

An interesting story with illustrations of Kievo-Pecherskaia Lavra

REUTERS is a world largest information agency (in Russian or English)

Russia Alive! is a Global Network for people interested in Russian news, business, education, and art.

Romanov's Dinasty and Heraldry

Russian National News Service (in Russian)

Russian Information Network from VLD Communications company (USA).

Monuments of Russian Empire 1895-1910 (many pictures)

RussianCulture

A site about St. Petersburg

For those who like to know something about Vladimir Vysotsky and his career

Senoval is a great site to open your eyes on to the Modern Russian Culture (in Russian)

From Russia with Art server provide you with news on music, painting, net art, and fashion.

Russian Area Studies net from the University of California at Santa Crus students.

 

1.Orthodox Christian Page with a lot of graphics.
2. Here you can find several images of ancient Russian icons.

Look at the complete collection of songs by Vladimir Vysotsky the best Russian bard of 60/70s.

Take a look on a Moscow night life (in Russian).

Culture. Travel to St.Petersburg

Boris Grebenshchikov and his Aquarium one of the most popular Russian band of 80-s and 90-s.

Do you like Russian Film ?
(in Russian)

Museums in Russia

  1. Server in Russia.
  2. Server in USA.

Russian Culture (history, film, literature, fashion) through the frame of Tatyana Agafonova's server.

The Bolshoi Theatre two web sites.

  1. First is more on history, productions, Russian composers.
  2. Second has more images and current news

Andrei Rublev Central Museum of Old Russian Art and Culture.

  1. Server in Russia
  2. Server in USA

Russian Ballet in Paris and Sergei Diagilev.

Kirov Ballet (Mariinsky Theatre has it Web site from abroad (in English) and from St. Petersburg (in Russian).

Cinematography in Russia

Internet Movie Database is an online info about films, producers, actors, etc. from around the world (in English)

Moscow Theatre Life Web server.

Just Relax and Do It - Let's go on a trip to the Wild Wild East...

Tourists' Guide of Moscow Government

Schedule of fligths to/from Russia

Hotel service in
a) Moscow b) St. Petersburg

Moscow for Tourists

Are you ready to travel? If not, travel agency Most-Tour (in Russia) is ready to help you.

A lot of info for travelers in the Russian system Tel-Inform

The Other St. Petrersburg. Many useful hints for travelers

Novgorod University server offers you a Tour Guide to their city.

Tour Navigator is a tourists' magazine in Russian

All tours are in St. Petersburg

Discover the secret of the Ukraine: Kyev, Odessa, Lviv.


One of the best Russian servers

What is the most popular Russian sport?

Trust us, it is the best! It's a part Russian Culture.

Personal server of Artemii Lebedev (designer, photographer, journalist)

Moscow Beer Guide on-line

A collection of a various humor

Do not take it serious on a Russian Fools Page

Hussars Club and guess what ...

Anecdots from Russia


Technical Information or "Your Computer learns how to read and use Cyrillic"

Information Page.

Check the code that is in use by your Web-brawser.

A place with many English-Russian Fonts and the Converter KOI-8 -> CP1251 -> DOS866

How to "Russify" your Mac?

? How to russify your client software?

 

 

How to tune Netscape to be able to work with Russian?

 



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