Hey, I thought I would compile a selection of different resources dedicated to learning the Russian language. Feel free to reblog and add your own
Information about the language
Russian Language on Wikipedia
Russian Language on Encyclopaedia Britannica
Russian Language on Real Russia
I have a masterlist of different Russian language textbooks for all levels, as well as general Russian literature and Russian magazines for reading practice. It contains over 60,000 books and over 4,000 magazines
Children’s Books in Russian
Project Gutenberg Free Russian Books
Courses - Note that not all of these courses are free.
Lingvist (comes with a 2-week free trial, and by far my favourite course)
Duolingo (Joining with this link automatically adds me as a friend)
I Kinda Like Languages Russian Course
Learn Russian with RT (The audio files no longer work but there’s a lot of great resources that work)
Live Lingua Russian Tutors (Not a course as such, but a way to get a Tutor. You can get a free hour lesson)
Я говорю по-русски/ I speak Russian
Русский как иностранный: B1+. Russian as a foreign language: B1+
Русский как иностранный: B1+. Часть 2. Russian as a foreign language. B1+. Part 2.
Русский как иностранный B2-1 / Russian As a Foreign Language B2-1
Русский язык как иностранный B2-2 / Russian as a Foreign Language B2-2
A1 Elementary Russian Course with Pushkin Institute
A2 Basic Russian Course with Pushkin Institute
B1 I Certified Russian Course with Pushkin Institute
B2 II Certified Russian Course with Pushkin Institute
C1 III Certified Russian Course with Pushkin Institute
C2 IV Certified Russian Course with Pushkin Institute
Beginner Russian Course / Курс России языка для начинающих
Intermediate Russian Course / Курс России языка среднего уровня
Russian Grammar Course / Курс грамматики России языка
Russian Course for Travelers / Курс России языка для путешественников
From Zero to Fluency Youtube Course
Start Speaking Russian Youtube Course
Russian Reading Youtube Course
Russian (Kazakhstan) Peace Corps Course
Memrise is a great resource as it has Memrise courses and user-created courses. These are the official Russian courses if you go through them one by one they amount to approximately 54 hours of content. The thing I like about Memrise is they test you on your pronunciation, and they have lots of videos by Russian native speakers. So it really tests you in all your skills.
These are some unofficial Russian Memrise courses you might like too. Although they tend to not have audio and they don’t have pronunciation tests or native speaker videos, they can still be a good resource.
Top 10,000 words part one
Top 10,000 words part two
Russian Grammar through Exercises
New Penguin Russian Course Vocabulary
English terms derived from Russian
Wikipedia Russian Topics (Click on different topics then click on different words for their English translation and meaning)
20,000-word Frequency dictionary of the modern Russian language (the Russian National Corpus)
Russian spelling alphabet
Russian Frequency lists/1-1000
Russian Frequency lists/1001-2000
Russian Frequency lists/2001-3000
Russian Frequency lists/3001-4000
Russian Frequency lists/4001-5000
Russian Adjectives - Frequency List
Russian Nouns - Frequency List
Russian Verbs - Frequency List
Dubbed Russian Songs (Russian songs with Russian lyrics alongside transliteration and English translation. They also accept requests)
Clozemaster (I’d say this is more for intermediate-advanced, but beginners might make use of this as well)
Vikida Children’s Encyclopedia (Entirely in Russian)
Russian for Children by Pushkin Institute (Entirely in Russian) This actually contains resources for 5+ to 18+ so it covers a broad range of levels
Beginning Russian through Film
Bab.La English - Russian Dictionary
Grammar Exercises Youtube Playlist
Online Interactive Grammar
Learn Russian Grammar Tables
Russia Today (In Russian) / Russia Today (in English) (They also have a whole database of documentaries/shows/films that are in English or Russian. Just click on a show here and it’ll give you the option to watch in English or Russian)
The Moscow Times (In Russian) / The Moscow Times (In English) (They have free English PDFs of past print publications too)
Tass Russian News Agency (In Russian) / Tass Russian News Agency (In English)
Moskovskij Komsomolets (Московский комсомолец) (only available in Russian)
Komsomolskaya Pravda (Комсомо́льская пра́вда) (only available in Russian)
Izvestia (ɪzˈvʲestʲɪjə) (Only available in Russian)
Rossiyskaya Gazeta (Российская газета) (Only available in Russian)
Kommersant (Коммерса́нтъ) (Only available in Russian)(There is also a UK news website entirely in Russian)
Trud (Tpyд) (Only available in Russian)
Moskovskiye Novosti (Московские новости) (Only available in Russian)
Nezavisimaya Gazeta (Независимая газета) (Only available in Russian)
Novye Izvestia (Новые Известия) (Only available in Russian)
Vedomosti (Ведомости) (Only available in Russian)
Pravda Правда (Only available in Russian)
Delovoy Peterburg Деловой Петербург (Only available in Russian)
RBC daily (Only available in Russian)
Sport Express (Спорт-Экспресс) (Only available in Russian)
Sovetsky Sport (Советский спорт) (Only available in Russian)
Russia Beyond The Headlines (In Russian) / Russia Beyond The Headlines (In English)
Krasnaya Zvezda (Кра́сная звезда́) (Only available in Russian)
Moskovskaya Pravda (Московская правда) (Only available in Russian)
Argumenty i Fakty (Аргументы и факты) (Only available in Russian)
Sovetsky Sakhalin (Советский Сахалин) (Only available in Russian)
Tyumenskaya Oblast Segodnya (Only available in Russian)
Vecherniy Murmansk (Вечерний Мурманск) (Only available in Russian)
Vecherniy Novosibirsk (Вечерний Новосибирск) (Only available in Russian)
Vecherniy Stavropol (Вечерний Ставрополь) (Only available in Russian)
Novaya Gazeta (Новая газета) (Only available in Russian)
Novgorod (Новгород) (Only available in Russian)
Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti (Санкт-Петербургские ведомости) (Only available in Russian)
Literaturnaya Gazeta (Литературная газета) (Only available in Russian)
Parlamentskaia Gazeta (Парламентская газета) (Оnly available in Russian)
Meduza (In Russian) / Meduza (In English)
Please note that sites listed do not equal an endorsement. I don’t know the political background or views of each of these publications. I’m merely compiling a variety I saw through various Russian news lists and search engine results. Content warnings may apply and not all content may be suitable for minors
Listening practice (Note, I may make another masterlist compiling various Russian podcasts and Youtube channels so I’m leaving them out of this section)
Slavic Languages and Cultures Department, University of Groningen
Listen to the Slavic languages
Learn Russian with Peppa Pig
StarMediaEN (Russian shows, documentaries etc with English subtitles)
Russian Films With English Subtitles Youtube Playlist
Alosha (Алёша Попович и Тугарин Змей) Children’s Film
Dobrynya and the Dragon (Добрыня Никитич и Змей Горыныч) Children’s Film
Ilya Muromets and Sparrow the Robber (Илья Муромец и Соловей Разбойник) Children’s film
How Not to Rescue a Princess (Три Богатыря и Шамаханская Царица) Children’s Film
Russian Animation (Mixture of dubbed content and subtitled content)
Киноконцерн “Мосфильм” (Moscow Film, only some of these are subtitled)
фильмы о Холмсе и Ватсоне (Movies about Sherlock Holmes with Russian audio and English subtitles)
Okay, so this list has gotten long enough lol. If you have any resources you feel should be added feel free to reblog and add them or message me and I’ll edit it in. If you have any requests for resource compilations that you want me to do (e.g. compiling Russian podcasts, general Russian websites, Russian YouTubers etc) please let me know.
