I have been learning Russian since 2023, and throughout this time I have been colleting several online resources to improve my vocabulary acquisition… This repository was highly inspired by [Awesome Greek](https://github.com/gbroques/awesome-greek). I noticed there wasn’t any list like this for Russian language resources on GitHub, so I decided to share my personal one.
Be aware that some Russian media will only be avaiable through a VPN.
This list is not updated too often, if you find any broken URL/dead website, please inform me in a issue or via an e-mail:
Although this is a personally curated list, PRs and suggestions are welcome!
I know most of it looks basically free advertising for content creators lmao, but I must clarify I have nothing to do with any of them and I do not endorse anything they say, I only find their content interesting/useful to improve listening and increase vocabulary, the same applies to any State-controlled or sponsored media listed here.
No AI was used to make this list!
This section brings together channels and blogs that represent a given field of knowledge or interest. If you know any serious channel or blog about a specific field (Biology, Chemistry, Sports…) in Russian and think it should be here, make a PR or send an e-mail.
The official certificate is the ТРКИ (Тестирование по русскому языку как иностранному языку), also known as TORFL (Test of Russian as a Foreign Language), and can be taken in any authorized testing centre.
You can download the official sample tests here and check your level by yourself.
Unfortunately, Russian doesn’t have stress marks, you may find them in textbooks for beginners and children books, but in the ‘real life’ you won’t, and the ё is often written as е, so here are extensions that make our life easier:
Although the goal of this list is to provide online resources, I still think that books are great for learning languages, however, I’m aware of the hard time people may have when looking for books in Russian in local bookstores depending on the country.
I had the luck to find some old books by the издательство «Русский Язык» (Russian Language publishing house) as these three and recommend them for those who are at the very beginning, but I feel it’d be a waste of time if you’re intermediate or above.
There’s this mailing list about Slavic languages and cultures maintained by the Indiana University: