Lingvo Online provides Russian to English translation.
The top Russian search engines (after Google):
Short Stories from famous Russian authors, including Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, and Blok in Russian. Each story has accompanying an glossary and audio file.
Art & Architecture from Russian, an overview and links to summaries about Moscow, St. Petersburg, Russian waterways, Lake Baikal, the Transiberian railroad and the arctic.
The Hermitage Museum holds one of the greatest collections of art in all of Russian, located in St. Petersburg.
Moshkov’s Library — the most comprehensive online collection of classic Russian literature
Feb-Web — the biggest online scholarly collection of literary and critical texts
Russian Virtual Library — another authoritative scholarly site with lots of literary texts
“Im Werden” Library — a non-commercial collection of lots of downloadable texts in PDF format
Komarov’s Library — another large set of literary texts
Peskin’s Library — yet another collection of literary texts
ArtSite Russian Painting — a huge collection of Russian artists and medium-resolution images
Olga’s Gallery — comprehensive collection of medium-resolution images of Russian paintings
SHERA — Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture brings together scholars specializing in the art and architecture of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
Zembla— online resource center of Nabokov’s works
Read! – online compilation of Russian stories literature resources for students
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Pesnia (the Russian word for “song”) is a web site that allows students to study the text of Russian songs. The collection of music in this site features the composers Glinka, Borodin, Balakirev, Rimskii-Korsakov, Kiui, Chaikovskii, and Rachmaninov. The texts of the songs are by poets such as Pushkin, Baratynsky, Nekrasov, Fet, and Lermontov. Pesnia was first developed in the early 1990’s by Susan Hafer Richman from Informational Services and Russian Professor Thomas Hodge. The Pesnia software used Toolbook, a Windows-only application.
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Beginning Russian Through Film a Cornell site featuring clips from many Russian films, their scripts, and necessary vocabulary.
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Comprehensive grammar review by Dr. Robert Beard
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Folkways: The Roots and Influence of Modern Cultures — an extensive list of web resources for Russian learners
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SRAS Resources for Students of Russian — a comprehensive list of fun resources for learning and speaking Russian
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Don’t Forget Russian — an archive of the language learning supplements to Russian Life magazine
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MasterRussian.com’s list of Russian proverbs and their English equivalent
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RussNet providing Russnet keyboard practice, Business Russian, a cultural map of Russia
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Lingvo Online provides Russian to English translation.
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Rubricon reference works — a large collection of authoritative encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Russian Language Mentor — a self-paced Language Maintenance and Development Curriculum intended for intermediate to advanced Russianists
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Russian recipes for soups, salads, grains, meats and desserts.
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Seventeen Moments in Soviet History — a rich multimedia site
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Russian Boston — local ads, nightlife, events, etc.
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Russian Language News and Magazines from MIT
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Pravda one of Russia’s widest circulating papers
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The Moscow Times, one of Russia’s leading English language news sources