Slavic and Eastern European Studies: Русский язык / Russian Language

Class Handout:

 • Macintosh •

The links below lead to guides on the Web which describe how to set up your computer to type in Russian, or read Russian fonts.

• Russify your Mac (Reed College)
• Russification of the Macintosh (Matvey B. Palchuk)
• Macintosh Cyrillic Fonts and Keyboard Drivers (AATSEEL)
• Russify Everything (Siber Systems Inc.)

• Windows •

Windows 11 Update: 

The "Russian for Gringos" keyboard works for Windows 11 users. With this version of Windows the selected language is no longer program-specific.  If you select a language it will be your input language across multiple applications until you change it (like it works for Mac users).

• Russian for Gringos 3: (Recommended!) Windows 11 & Windows 10, plus lower versions

The links below lead to guides on the Web which describe how to set up your computer to type in Russian, or read Russian fonts.

• Russian Phonetic Keyboard for Windows 10 (instructions for the built-in keyboard)
• Windows Cyrillic Fonts and Keyboard Drivers (AATSEEL)
• Russify Everything (Siber Systems Inc.)

Dictionaries

• Викисловарь
• Slavic Language Dictionaries (online)
  • an excellent list of links
• Russian-English Dictionaries (paper)
  • look under the call number PG2640 in the Reference collection or the circulating collection.

Quick Research on the Russian Web

Note: If you need scholarly articles in Russian, please ask a librarian for help. The resources below are not for scholarly research.

• Википедия / Vikipediia-- Russian version of Wikipedia
  • Tip: if you can't enter the search in Russian, or don't know what something is called in Russian, try searching the English version of Wikipedia. When you find an article, look in the "in other languages" section at lower left to see if there is a Russian article on the topic. Click on "Русский" to see the article.
• Russian-language search engines:
  • Google на русском / Google na russkom (Note: you can also search regular Google in Russian by just entering the search in Russian)
  • Рамблер / Rambler

• Slavic Studies Program
• Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Studies