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  • - The Library provides access to large number of digitised collections. These would include: 
    • Journals such as
    • Individual documents: such as
    • Collection of documents, such as "” containing more than 1700 archival documents, photographs, newsreel fragments (from 1933 to 1939)

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  • - Provides good selection of digitised materials from its collections including:
    • including digitised newspapers from the
    • Colection of books on includng works by
  • . Digital collection of Nekrasov Library. The Library provides access to number of digitised books and periodicals, including:
    • (16 issues 1927 - 1928)
  • - The Library offer access to more than four millions open access resources that would include journals, books and documents. Examples would include:
    • The the first precisely dated book printed in Moscow in 1564.
    • The first Russian handwritten geographical atlas of Siberia (1703)
    • 1929 - 1960
    • 1926 - 1930
    • 1919 - 1943
  • Provides access to around 150 000 acts of law. From 1649-1913.
  • - The first volume of Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles was published in 1841 and the project continue until present (please note that more recent editions are unavailable online).
  • - The society was established in 1845 and its library provides access to number of digitised resources including:
  • The society was founded in 1866 and provides access to a number of online collections, including:
    • containing printed archival documents (published after 1991);
    • Collection of (I World War and Civil War period);
    • 148 volumes of (via )
  • - Online Library providing access to large number digitised books, maps and journals. Examples would include:  
    • Исторический вестник];

Please also note that provided by the may also be of interest

  • - Project of the Russian State Library is comprised of several thousand of digitised items and includes various collections, including:

Literature

  • - The website offers a substantial collection of Russian classics authors, downloadable in epub format, so it can be read on practically any device including dedicated e-readers, such as kindle or PocketBook.  Examples would include:
  •  - offers the biggest access to Russian language ebooks, including both classics and modern authors. Although it is a paid service it offers access to a large number of as well (registration required).In addition Rossotrudnichestvo UK offers free access to Litres.ru (registration required) via a (most of the books are available and can be read in full text either online or on mobile application).

  • - Offers access to of Solzhenitsyn downloadable in PDF format.

  • - Offer access to collected works of Tolstoy in ninety volumes.

  • The project of Institute of  Russian Literature "Академические собрания сочинений Пушкинского Дома", offers access to a number of digitised works of Russian classics, such as , , , , and .

Audio collections

  • - "Melodiya” was founded in 1964 as a state-owned company for production, storage and distribution of sound recordings. Melodiya's soundcloud account offer access to a number of recordings including:
    • Lenin's speeches (1918 - 1921) -

    • Anna Akhmatova reading her poems -

    • Frederic Chopin -

    • Bach -

    • Tchaikovskyi -

  • [Гостелерадиофонд]. Provides access to archival broadcasts including:

Video

  • TV news: please check our The guide provide access to TV news programs from more than 10 TV stations. 

Theatre

  • - Selection of past performances available on official "" page.
  • Large selection of Soviet TV theatre from the collection of ГОСТЕЛЕРАДИОФОНД России .
  • - The site offers access to large number of historical theatrical performances from various theatres including Sovremennik, Bolshoi and Malyi theatres.

Secondary Sources 

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