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Dictionaries:

Multitran is undoubtedly the best online Russian-English/English-Russian dictionary. It allows users to type in phonetic transcription, has a morphological analyzer (produces case declensions and verb conjugations of words entered), allows you to enter phrases for translation... well there are a lot of cool things -- poke around the site. Really a remarkable resource.

Another excellent reference site is Cyrill and Methodius (Кирилл и Мефодий). Particularly useful is the pop-up keyboard that allows you to type (albeit slowly) in Cyrillic regardless of whether you have the proper drivers installed. In addition to a fairly good encyclopedia, the site has a well-designed English-Russian/Russian-English dictionary.

Ozhegov's Dictionary of the Russian Language
(Толковый словарь русского языка). The standard
Russian Russian Dictionary. 40,000 entries, with examples of correct use
and some sayings.

Andrei Sabelfeld's English-Russian Dictionary . About 77,000 entries. I've found it to be quite useful and accurate.

Prompt's online translator does a fair job with very simple sentences with standard syntax. The free translator is limited to texts of fewer than 500 letters.

Online Language Learning Resources:

Master Russian Here you will find free grammar lessons, useful vocabulary words and phrases, helpful tips on learning the Russian language, and links to the best sites about the Russian language hand-peaked from all over the Web and recommended by us for your studies.

Robert Beard's "Interactive Online Reference Grammar" Some simple exercises and though perhaps the explanations are overly complicated.

RUSSIAN WEB TUTOR. Fairly good exercises & grammar explanations.

Russian Language Mentor: An extremely useful site for the very motivated intermediate-level student -- esp. the reading section. There are dozens and dozens of excerpts from newspapers, magazines, etc. Each text is dissected, translated, and discussed. The audio exercises are mostly drawn from news reports from Russian television. Each of the "texts" is discussed from the point of view of grammar, syntax, lexicon, etc. There are also questions that test reading/listening comprehension. Transcriptions are provided for the listening exercises,
Russian Mentor

Morphological generator: Click on this link for a very useful morphological generator, which generates forms of words -- verb conjugations, declined forms of nouns, pronouns, and modifiers. Enter the infinitive of any verb or any form of any adjective or noun into the box and get its meaning and its conjugational or declensional pattern (the results pop up in another window).

Conradish contains hundreds of Russian literary texts -- from short stories to entire novels -- in Russian. Each text is linked to a database based on a Russian-English dictionary. Click ANY word anywhere in ANY text, and you'll find in the table below the text a definition and explanation of the word. I cannot imagine a better way for a student to read a Russian text.


russianpoetry.net contains hundreds of poems with facing translations into English. The translations are practical, intended for those who read Russian but perhaps not well enough to understand Russian poetry. Many poems also have audio files of famous actors and poets reading the poems -- very useful for developing listening skills.


Русское Радио и Видео в Интернете, Русский Сиэтл (Russian Radio and Video on the Net from Russian Seattle): Russian Seattle has a comprehensive list of sites that provide radio and video transmission via the Web. Many of the sites provide a transcript of the material into Russian, some also provide translation into English. NOTHING will improve your Russian listening skills more quickly than just sitting and listening and reading along.