Russian

Information about the different courses we offer in this language is available by clicking on each course pathway. Please read this information carefully to ensure you pick the course that is right for you.

Before enrolling or applying it is imperative that you read the enrolment and application information.

General and Academic courses run in three parts. If you did not complete Part One or Part Two, you may still join at the next enrolment point (Part Two or Part Three) provided that you are not an absolute beginner. Please follow the guidance on our website to find the right stage for you and proceed to book your place online. If you are unsure, you may make an appointment to see a tutor in week 0 or week 1. If you feel that you have made the wrong level choice, please discuss this with your tutor at the end of the first class.

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Course Pathway	Stage(s)	Enrol or Apply	Day of week and time	Date of first class
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General and Academic	Enrolments for Michaelmas 2019 will open in mid-September 2019. Register for our newsletter if you would like to be notified.

Course Pathway

Stage(s)

Enrol or Apply

Day of week and time

Date of first class

Fast track

Applications for Fast Track programmes will re-open in late September 2019 ahead of Michaelmas term. Register for our newsletter if you would like to be notified.

General and Academic

Enrolments for Michaelmas 2019 will open in mid-September 2019. Register for our newsletter if you would like to be notified.

Details of the textbooks to be used for each course (where applicable) will be confirmed by tutors during the first class.

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Study resources

Library shelfmark: RU

At Oxford

Russian at Oxford: undergraduate level, research
Taylor Bodleian Slavonic and Modern Greek Library
St Antony´s Russian and Eurasian Studies
OXAM Digital copies of most of the official examination papers (including the Honours School Examination for Modern Languages) presented by the University of Oxford. Please note: access is limited to those in the Oxford domain.
The last five years of the listening comprehension and discourse topics examinations are available on WebLearn They also are in print in the library with audio materials available for the listening comprehension examination.
The Oxford University Russian Society is also on Facebook

General

Academic.ru a collection of dictionaries, including specialised dictionaries
BBC languages ideal for beginners
Beginner's Russian to be used in combination with Beginner's Russian, Hippocrene Books,a textbook used in our courses
CEELBAS language repository with a lot of open access resources in Russian
CRCEES at the University of Glasgow
Golosa Basic Course in Russian introductory Russian course focusing oncommunicative language and grammar/structure. The course is in the Language Centre library
History of Slavic languages:Polish, Russian and Serbo-Croatian in comparison
Learn Russian Free frequency vocabulary lists (2000 most common words) and quizzes
Multitran dictionary
On-line Russian reference grammar
REESweb : Russian and East European Studies Internet Resources at the University of Pittsburg
Ruskiy Mir Foundation
Ruslan Limited free demos of the first lessons from the textbooks which are in the library
Russian national corpus "intended for all who are interested in the Russian language and variousassociated fields: professional linguists, language teachers, school and university students, foreigners learning the language"
Russian sign language: the film Country of the Deaf which is in the library, contains some Russian sign language (written, visual)
SEELRC The Slavic and East European Language Research Center, Duke University
Study Russian online for beginners. Contains some grammatical explanations, phonetics, help on reading, vocabulary topics
Slavic Dictionary

Russian language resources

Culture & blogs

Flaxenwave a blog on Russian poetry translations in English
From the ends to the beginning a bilingual anthology of Russian poetry, also contains audio material
ExLibris latest cultural comments
Glagoslav publications a publisher specialised in translating modern Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian literature
Lizoksbooks a blog on Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian contemporary literature
Mosfilm on youtube: one of the largest film databases on the www
Open culture website where you can find a lot of Tarkovsky films online
Pushkin's poems bilingual edition
Russian archives online photographs, films, audio clips and transcripts from the fifteen republics of the former USSR
Russian Dinosaur a high quality blog on Russian literature and translation issues from an Oxford academic
Lib Ru Virtual library
Vestigio a blog about life in the UK through Russian eyes
Vintage Film Club a collection of films, some free, some pay-per-view, from LenFilm studios in St Petersburg, with English subtitles

Media

If you can't find the media you want, try our multilingual page

Latest news will be on the Library Netvibes page

BBC Russian
Kommersant.ru
RuTube the Russian youtube
Izvestia
Pravda
Snob.ru
Novaya Gazeta Newspaper known for its controversial and often anti-governmental stories
Echo of Moscow poehali weekly programme with text and sound version
Television channels
- Channel One
- 5 TV (St Petersburg)
- NTV
- Russia
- TV-Center
- Vesti
- VGTRK

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