Walker Library: World Languages, Literatures & Cultures: Russian-Русский

Call Numbers for Russian Language and Literature Books

Russian language books are located on the 3rd floor of Walker Library under the call numbers of 491-491.999. Russian literature is on the 4th floor.

491-491.799 Russian language
891-891.799 Russian literature

Culture, Customs, Etiquette

AtoZ the World
Country guides for 174 countries, covering culture, history, travel, business, and more.

See product brochure (PDF) for more content information.

CIA World Factbook
Face of Russia
PBS program

Russian News

Pervyi Kanal--Первый Канал
Russia Today
Лента.ру
The latest Russian news and events

Russian News from NYT

Writing

Russian Alphabet

Online Dictionary

BAB.LA English-Russian Online Dictionary

Reference Materials

Specialized subject encyclopedias and dictionaries are great places to begin research. . Use these in addition to Wikipedia.

Oxford Reference: Complete Collection
Search over 200 academic subject encyclopedias, maps, biographies, and much more.
World Book Advanced
A general encyclopedia.
Oxford Reference: English Dictionaries & Thesauri
Online editions of dictionaries for America, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.

Reference Books

Encyclopedia of Russian History by James R. Millar (Editor)
Call Number: Reference - Walker Library - 1st Floor 947.003 En1

These are a few of the books on Russian Language in the Reference Collection on the first floor of Walker Library

The Oxford Russian Dictionary by Marcus Wheeler (Editor); Boris Unbegaun (Editor); Paul Falla (Editor); Della Thompson (Editor)
Call Number: Reference - Walker Library - 1st Floor 491.732 Ox2 2000
Handbook of Russian Literature by Victor Terras (Editor)
Call Number: Reference - Walker Library - 1st Floor 891.3 H19t
Dictionary of 1000 Russian Proverbs by Peter Mertvago (Editor)
Call Number: Reference - Walker Library - 1st Floor 398.99171 M55d

Reading

Project Gutenberg offers many free ebooks that can be read on your device.

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Russian Literature

Bilingual anthology of Russian verse
Well known poems of Pushkin, Lermontov, Tiutchev, Blok, Mandelstam, Pasternak, Tsvetaeva, Brodsky, Akhmatova, and Nekrasov.
List of Russian writers
Wikipedia offers a comprehensive list of Russian novelists, dramatists, and poets.
Журнальный Зал
Nonprofit online literary project of Russian literary, art and humanities journals published in Russia and abroad
Новая Литературная карта России
New Literary Map of Russia