Basic information and general resources
Aport (http://www.aport.ru)
Comprehensive Web directory for the "Runet" (the Russian-language Internet). In Russian.
Encyclopedia
Britannica: Russia (http://www.britannica.com/bps/search?query=russia)
Search on "Russia" for information and Web sites.
Governments on the WWW: Russian
Federation (http://gksoft.com/govt/en/ru.html)
Links to federal, regional, and municipal institutions; representations in foreign countries; political parties, and more.
Мир энциклопедий: проект (http://www.encyclopedia.ru)
Gateway to online Russian encyclopedias. In Russian.
Open Directory Project.
Regional: Europe: Russia (http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Russia/)
Links to a wide variety of Web sites culled from major search engines.
REESWeb Russian & East European Studies Virtual Library (http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb/)
World Wide Web Virtual Library for Russian & East European Studies. Browse subject lists, events calendar, or search by keywords. From the Center for Russian & East European Studies and the University Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
Russia on the Net (http://www.ru/eng/index.html)
English-language Web directory for Russia with categories including arts and culture, news and media, science and reference, and education. In Russian and English.
Sher's Russian Index (http://www.websher.net/inx/icdefault1.htm)
Subject-oriented guide to Russian Internet sites in various categories (art, history, geography, language, and so on).
U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook: Russia (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/rs.html)
General information and statistics about Russia, with the following subdivisions: introduction, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.
U.S. Department of State. Bureau of Public Affairs.--Background Notes(http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/)
Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. Click on country link.
U.S. Library of
Congress. Federal Research Division. Country Profile: Russia (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles/Russia.pdf)
Reference guide offering brief, summarized information on Russia's historical background, geography, society, economy, transportation and telecommunications, government and politics, and national security.
U.S. Library of Congress.
Federal Research Division. Russia: a country study (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/rutoc.html)
The Federal Research Division (FRD) of the Library of Congress published in 1996 an extensive handbook entitled Russia: a country study. The text and selected graphics of the 728-page work are available in an electronic format on the FRD Web site. The reader can search for words or variants of search words, within one country study or across multiple studies. The country study can be downloaded, one section at a time, and saved as an html or txt file. (No revised editions are planned at present.)
University
of Texas at Austin. College of Liberal Arts. Russian and East European Network
Information Center (REENIC): Russia (http://reenic.utexas.edu/countries/russia.html)
Basic country information about Russia, Internet search tools, area study centers, associations, and a wide variety of useful portals on subject matters from communications to government to science and technology.
Directories and Postal Codes
Почтовые индексы России (http://indexes.boom.ru)
Online searchable directory of postal codes for Russia. In Russian.
Справка.net (http://www.spravka.net)
Russian-language directory of a wide variety of online reference-type resources, including telephone directories, dictionaries, and transportation schedules. Telephone directories referenced include both yellow pages and white pages (residential directories).
Yellowpages.ru (http://www.yellow-pages.ru/eng?n=2)
Searchable English-language access to yellow pages-type telephone directory including addresses and information about more than 850,000 companies in the Russian Federation. Includes interactive maps of Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, and Kazan.
Statistical Resources
Federal State Statistics Service (http://www.gks.ru/wps/portal/english)
Seeks to meet the requirements of bodies of state authority and administration, media, general public, scientific community, and commercial and international organizations for diverse, objective, and exhaustive information. The system of state statistics covers district, regional, and federal levels, as well as Moscow and St. Petersburg. Links include Russia in figures, the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS-established by the International Monetary Fund, and related links. In Russian and English.
Interstate Statistical Committee
of the Commonwealth of Independent States (http://www.cisstat.com/eng/index.htm)
Established in December 1991 for coordinating activities of statistical organizations of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries, developing and implementing an unified statistical methodology on the basis of mutual consultations, securing comparability and continuity of statistical elaborations, and facilitating wide-scale information exchange in the framework of the CIS. Only limited information is available on this site free-of-charge. In English and Russian.
State Symbols, Holidays, Currency
Observed National
Holidays (http://www.russianembassy.org/RUSSIA/holid.htm)
Calendar of Russian holidays observed by the Russian government. From the Embassy of the Russian Federation, Washington, D.C.
Russian State Insignia (http://www.russianembassy.org/RUSSIA/gerb.htm)
Description of the Russian flag and state insignia (the coat of arms). From the Embassy of the Russian Federation, Washington, D.C.
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