Useful Sites for Russian Studies on the Internet

Last Update: 4-6-07

Note:  As of the fall 2003 this page will be updated only to provide links to useful collections of links for Russian studies. The older material will be left for some time time but will eventually be phased out.

Best Sites:

RussianInternet.com

Sher's Russian Index

Slavic Studies Research Center

Slavophilia


 Quick Index to Subject Headings

Materials on Russification
Useful Archives/Collections of Links
Russian WWW Servers
Russian Search Engines
Useful On-line Resources
Commercial Software
On-line Stores
Russian News services, Newspapers and Journals On-Line
Audio/Video in Russian
Listservers
Miscellaneous

Materials on Russification

Cyrillic Character Sets. Briefly explains what a codepage is and provides a discussion and image for 16 Cyrillic codepages.

European and Non-European Languages on the Net. A Survey of Problems and Solutions. The title about says it all.

SovInformBureau: Russify Everything.

Welkya-Cyrillic: is a site devoted to Cyrillic in general, not just Russian.

Alex Lane's Corner of Texas Provides information on conversion of Cyrillic files between a Mac and a PC using Perl. Also provides a phonetic keyboard layout for Win95.

Matvey Palchuk's server dedicated to the Russification of the Macintosh An extremely useful site for those interested in configuring a Macintosh for reading, typing and printing Cyrillic. Also provides valuable information on configuring Internet applications to read Cyrillic.

Ukrainianization of the Macintosh Although this site is directed at Ukrainianization, it is quite useful for those wishing to Russify their Macs.

Apple Computer, IMC Russia provides the software cRussify for setting up a Mac for Cyrillic.

WWW and Cyrillic A useful site detailing how to configure your web browser to read Cyrillic. Mostly deals with non-Mac systems.

Unicode Home Page Someday Unicode will put an end to the nightmare we now how with various encodings of foreign alphabets. In the meantime, you can check on the progress of the Unicode Consortium.


Useful Archives/Collections of Links

The AATSEEL WWW Site This site is rapidly becoming an essential collection of information and links to materials relating to Slavic and East European Studies.

The WWW Virtual Library by REESWeb at University of Pittsburgh. A wonderful collection of annotated links to various resources for Russian and East European studies. Links range from software resources to information on business, history, language and literature, etc.

REENIC-Russian and East European Network Information Center. Another valuable collection of materials and links for the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Bobst Library Slavic Studies Resources.

Russian Studies on the Web. Roman Leibov's site which contains inks to home pages of departments teaching Slavic and East European languages.

Friends and Partners

Little Russia in San Antonio

The Human Languages Page A useful collection of links to the study of human languages.

Foreign Language and Culture

SovInform Bureau

Yamada Web Guide to Russian


Russian WWW Servers

Russian Academy of Sciences

Window-to-Russia Home Page

Elvis


Russian Search Engines

Google in Russian

Yandex.

Rambler.


Useful On-line Resources

Russian-English Dictionary of the Human Body.


Commercial Homepages

This set of links is provided purely for informational purposes. No endorsement or guarantee is made of any of the companies or their products.

Traveler's Yellow Pages: A Yellow Pages for St. Petersburg, Russia. Handbook and guide with 9,000 addresses, telephone #s, faxes, hours, and descriptions for restaurants, hotels, art galleries, museums, business services, government and 500 more categories many with essays. Updated regularly.

Translation Experts Limited

Smartlink Corporation

Russian Software I

Socium: Russian Connection Infoservices

Lexicon Bridge Publishers


On-Line Stores

Mezhdunarodnaia kniga.

Molotok.

Priviet.com.

Russian Shopping Club.

Victor Kamkin Bookstore.


News services and Journals On-line.

IntellectualCapital.ru.

Russia Today.

The Voice of Russia. Provides services in both Russian and English.

RBC. Encoding is Windows 1251.


Listservers

Listservers are somewhat similar to newsgroups. The difference is that you receive postings as e-mail messages. Here are a few listservers that you might find of interest. In all cases, send an e-mail message to the listserver address. On the first line of the message, type SUBSCRIBE NAME_OF_LISTSERVER YOUR_FIRST_NAME YOUR_LAST_NAME. Send the message. Do NOT include a signature with the message. You should receive a confirmation shortly and may be asked to confirm your request. The confirmation message will explain to you how to post messages.

RUSPEAK-L Send subscription message to listproc@usc.edu. The following is RUSPEAK's self-description: "The purpose of RUSPEAK-L is business and leisure information exchange, discussion of the issues that are of interest to students and young professionals from Russia. RUSPEAK-L is also for those who have friends in Russia or speak Russian, and those who are willing to listen and to share what they have to say. RUSPEAK-L enables its subscribers to distribute mail to all users currently subscribed to that list."

RUSTEX-L Send a subscription message to LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU. A group devoted to discussing Cyrillic text processing. Can get very technical but does provide lots of useful information.

SEELangs Send subscription message to LISTSERV@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU.The Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures list. Mostly used by scholars and teachers, but a good place to post a question.

Johnson's Russia List. This is not a true listserver, but is a moderated list devoted to current events. This is an excellent list of articles and discussions devoted to Russia. But beware: the volume is very large and it takes a lot of time to read it all. Contact davidjohnson@erols.com to join.


Miscellaneous

SAPE: Soviet-American Penfriend Exchange

The Orthodox Christian Page

RUFORS: Russian UFO Research Station


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Andrew M. Drozd
University of Alabama
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