Russian National Corpus Национальный Корпус Русского Языка This website contains a corpus of the modern Russian language incorporating over 300 million words. The corpus of Russian is a reference system based on a collection of Russian texts in electronic form. The Corpus is intended for all who are interested in the Russian language and various

I was one of 13 lucky teachers who got to participate in this summer’s STARTALK teacher program, July 6-22 at the University of Washington. The STARTALK teacher program is a nationwide initiative launched by the National Security Language Initiative (NSLI) to increase the number of Americans speaking critical languages (e.g. Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Hindi, Persian,

Russia’s History through Photographs История России в фотографиях The Russia’s History through Photographs project is an an open and public photo archive, which spans almost half a century of Russian history. Here you will find professional and amateur photographs taken in Russia in the period from 1860 to 1999. The project brings together images from different sources.

State Hermitage Museum Государственный Эрмитаж The collection of the State Hermitage includes over 3 million works of art and world culture artefacts. It contains paintings, graphic works, sculptures, works of applied art, archaeological artefacts and numismatic objects. Founding of the Museum The Hermitage is considered to have been founded in 1764, when Empress Catherine the

The Polytechnic Museum Политехнической Музей The Polytechnic Museum, founded in 1872, is a national museum of history of science and technology, one of the world’s oldest and largest museums of its kind. Today the Polytechnic Museum goes beyond collecting and preserving the unique achievements of the human mind, embodied in devices and objects; now it

The Hermitage-Kazan Center Казанский Кремль (государственный историко-архитектурный и художественный музей-заповедник The Hermitage-Kazan Exhibition Center was created under the patronage and with support from President of the Republic of Tatarstan Mentimer Shaimiev and is structurally a subdivision of the Kazan Kremlin State Historical and Architectural Museum-Park. It is situated on the territory of the Kazan Kremlin

The Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 Центральный Музей Великой Отечественной Войны The Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War is the unique memorial complex which serves to eternize memory of Soviet people valor, heroism and courage during the Great Patriotic War. The Museum is engaged in research, in cultural and educational work,

The State Peterhof Museum Reserve Петергоф Государственный Музей Заповедник The brilliant palace and park ensemble of Peterhof, conceived and created at the will of Peter the Great as a counterpart of Versailles, is situated on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, 29 kilometers from St. Petersburg. In the course of 200 years, it

Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery Пискаревское Мемориальное Кладбище There are 186 common graves in the Piskaryovskoye cemetery, in which 420 thousands of inhabitants of the city, who died from hunger, bombing and shelling 70 thousands of soldiers, defenders of Leningrad are buried. May 9, 1960 on the fifteenth anniversary of the Victory Day, Piskaryovskoye memorial cemetery was

The Kaliningrad Regional Museum of History and Art Калининградский областной историко-художественный музей It was opened right after the war and is the oldest museum of the city. The museum started to collect its exhibits in 1946. The main museum building is the former town hall Stadthalle, built in Koenigsberg in 1912 by the architect Richard