Many languages, including English, contain words possibly borrowed from Russian. Not all of them are of truly Russian or Slavic origin. Some of them co-exist in other Slavic languages and it is difficult to decide whether they entered English from Russian or, say, from Polish, most notable of these being vodka. Some others are borrowed or constructed from classical ancient languages, such as Latin or Greek, still others are borrowed from indigenous peoples of the Russia, the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages), a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia. ... The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages), a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia. ... Imperial Russia is the term used to cover the period of Russian history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great, through the expansion of the Russian Empire from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposal of Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar, at the start...

Most of them are used to denote things and notions specific to Russia, Russian culture, politics, history, especially well-known outside Russia: vodka, intelligentsia, taiga, tundra, pogrom. Some others are in mainstream usage, independent of any Russian context. Taiga Taiga (IPA pronunciation: , from the Russian тайга́) is a biome characterized by coniferous forests. ... In physical geography, tundra is an area where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and OMFG. The term tundra comes from Kildin Sami tū̄ndra, the genitive of tundar, treeless plain. There are three types of tundra: Arctic tundra, Antarctic tundra, and alpine tundra. ... Pogrom (Russian: ; from громить - to wreak havoc, to demolish violently) is a form of riot, a massive violent attack on a particular group; ethnic, religious or other, primarily characterized by destruction of their environment (homes, businesses, religious centers). ...

Common

Babushka

Balalaika

Bistro

Cosmonaut

Gulag

Intelligentsia

Kazakh

Knout 

(borrowing from Swedish)

Kopek 

(kopeck, copeck)

Kremlin

Mammoth

Matryoshka

Parka

Pogrom

Ruble (Rouble)

Sable

Samovar

Sputnik

Steppe

Taiga

Tchotchke (via Yiddish from Russian or Polish)

Troika (triumvirate)

Troika (dance)

Troika (sled)

Tundra

Ushanka

Vodka

Babushka ( â–¶ (help· info)) is a Russian word meaning grandmother or old lady. ... Balalaika The balalaika (балала́йка) is a stringed instrument of Russian origin, with a characteristic triangular body and 3 strings (or sometimes 6, in pairs). ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit (MMU) outside the Challenger in 1984. ... Gulag (Russian: ГУЛАГ (help· info)) is an acronym for Главное Управление Исправительно—Трудовых Лагерей и колоний, Glavnoye Upravleniye Ispravitelno-trudovykh Lagerey i kolonii, The Chief Directorate [or Administration] of Corrective Labour Camps and Colonies of the NKVD. Anne Applebaum, in her book Gulag: A History, explains: Literally, the word GULAG is an acronym, meaning Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei, or... The intelligentsia (from Latin: intelligentia) is a social class of people engaged in complex mental and creative labor directed to the development and dissemination of culture: intellectuals and social groups close to them (e. ... Kazakh may refer to An ethnic group: the Kazakhs The Kazakh language The Culture of Kazakhstan Suhbat. ... A knout (rhymes with boot) is a heavy scourge-like whip, usually made of a bunch of rawhide thongs attached to a long handle, sometimes with metal wire or hooks incorporated. ... 1998 Russian Federation one rouble coin. ... Kremlin (Кремль) is the Russian word for citadel or castle and refers to any major fortified central complex found in historical Russian cities. ... Species Mammuthus columbi Columbian mammoth Mammuthus exilis Pygmy mammoth Mammuthus jeffersonii Jeffersonian mammoth Mammuthus meridionalis Mammuthus primigenius Woolly mammoth Mammuthus lamarmorae Sardinian Dwarf Mammoth A mammoth is any of a number of an extinct genus of elephant, often with long curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long... A Matryoshka doll (Cyrillic матрёшка or матрешка) is a Russian nesting doll. ... This article is about the article of clothing. ... Pogrom (Russian: ; from громить - to wreak havoc, to demolish violently) is a form of riot, a massive violent attack on a particular group; ethnic, religious or other, primarily characterized by destruction of their environment (homes, businesses, religious centers). ... 1997 Russian Federation one rouble coin, obverse and reverse 1898 Russian Empire one rouble bill, obverse 1898 Russian Empire one rouble bill, reverse The ruble or rouble (Russian рубль; see note on spelling below) is the name of the currencies of the Russian Federation and Belarus (and formerly, of the Soviet... Binomial name Martes zibellina Linnaeus, 1758 The sable, a small quadruped, closely akin to the martens, and known by the zoological names of Martes zibellina or Mustela zibellina, originated in Siberia and has achieved fame for its fur, which is integrated into various clothes fashions (for example a Shtreimel). ... Samovar vaznoy (vase-shaped). ... Sputnik 1 The Sputnik program was a series of unmanned space missions launched by the Soviet Union in the late 1950s to demonstrate the viability of artificial satellites. ... A steppe in Western Kazakhstan in early spring In physical geography, a steppe (Russian степь or step and pronounced in English as step) is a plain without trees (apart from those near rivers and lakes); it is similar to a prairie, although a prairie is generally considered as being dominated by... Taiga Taiga (IPA pronunciation: , from the Russian тайга́) is a biome characterized by coniferous forests. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Yiddish (ייִדיש, Jiddisch) is a Germanic language spoken by about four million Jews throughout the world. ... Troika (Russian: тройка, meaning threesome) is a committee consisting of three members. ... Troika is a Russian folk dance, where a man dances with two women. ... A sled, sledge or sleigh is a vehicle with runners for sliding instead of wheels for rolling. ... In physical geography, tundra is an area where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and OMFG. The term tundra comes from Kildin Sami tÅ«Ì„ndra, the genitive of tundar, treeless plain. There are three types of tundra: Arctic tundra, Antarctic tundra, and alpine tundra. ... An ushanka with the ear flaps tied on top. ... Look up Vodka in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Vodka is a typically colorless liquor, always distilled from fermented grain or potatoes. ...

Cuisine

Blintz 

blin, pancake

Borshch 

Ukrainian

Kasha 

Buckwheat groats, Russian for "porridge" or "gruel"

Kvass

Medovukha

Okroshka

Pelmeni

Pirogi 

also Polish pierogi, little pies, usually with meat, potato or cabbage inside.

Pirozhki 

also piroshki small pirogi

Shashlik

Shchi

Sirniki, syrniki

Smetana 

sour cream sauce

Solyanka

Vareniki 

from Ukrainian varenyky

A blintz, blintze or blin (Russian: блин, блины; Ukrainian: блинці, blyntsi; plural: blintzes, blini, bliny) is a thin pancake. ... Borsch (Polish: barszcz, Russian and Ukrainian: борщ, also borshch, borscht) is a type of hearty Eastern and Central European vegetable soup, the beet roots being the defining ingredient. ... The word kasha (kasza in Polish, каша in Bulgarian, Russian and Ukrainian) is commonly used in modern English to describe roasted whole-grain buckwheat or buckwheat groats. ... Kvass (Russian: квас) (Ukrainian: квас) (leaven) is a fermented non-alcoholic or mildly alcoholic beverage popular in Russia, Ukraine other Eastern European countries. ... Medovukha is a Russian alcoholic beverage that is, like mead, derived from honey. ... Okroshka (Russian: окрошка) is Russian cold soup. ... A 1936 Soviet poster advertising pelmeni. ... Pierogi are a kind of food also known as perogi, perogy, piroghi, pirogi, piroshki, pirozhki, or pyrohy. ... Pierogi are a kind of food also known as perogi, perogy, piroghi, pirogi, piroshki, pirozhki, or pyrohy. ... 1. ... Shchi (Russian щи) is a soup with cabbage as the primary ingredient. ... In Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian cuisines, syrniki (Russian: сы́рник[и]; Ukrainian: сирники; Belarusian сырнікі) are fried curd fritters, garnished with sour cream, jam, honey, and/or apple sauce. ... In Polish, Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian cuisines, syrniki (Russian: сы́рник[и]; Ukrainian: сирники; Belarusian сырнікі) are fried curd fritters, garnished with sour cream, jam, honey, and/or apple sauce. ... Sour Cream is a dairy product rich in fats obtained by fermenting a regular cream by certain kinds of Lactobacillus bacteria. ... Solyanka (Russian and Ukrainian: соля́нка) is a thick, spicy and sour soup in the Russian and Ukrainian cuisine. ... Vareniki (singular varenik; Russian: ; Ukrainian: ) are a national Ukrainian dish, somewhat similar to pierogi, pelmeni and ravioli. ...

Political, Administrative

Agitprop

Apparatchik

Bolshevik

Boyar

Cheka

Czar

Commissar

DOSAAF

Duma

Dvoryanstvo, Dvoryanin

FSB

Glasnost

Guberniya

Kadet

KGB

Kniaz

Kolkhoz

Korenizatsiya

Kulak

Krai

Leninism

Lishenets

MGB

Menshevik

Mir

MVD

Narkompros

NEP

NKVD

Nomenklatura

Obshchina

Oblast

Okhranka

Okrug

Oprichina

Oprichnik

Perestroika

Politburo

Propiska

Raion 

from French

Silovik

SMERSH

Soviet

Sovkhoz

Sovmin

Sovnarkhoz

Sovnarkom

Spetsnaz

Stakhanovite

Stalinism

Stavka

Tsar, tsardom, tsarina, tsarevna, tsarevich, tsesarevich

Ukase

Veche

Yevsektsiya

Zampolit

Zemshchina

Zemsky Sobor

Zemstvo

Agitprop poster by Vladimir Mayakovsky. ... See Apparatchik (disambiguation) for other meanings. ... Leaders of the Bolshevik Party and the Communist International, a painting by Malcolm McAllister on the Pathfinder Mural in New York City and on the cover of the book Lenin’s Final Fight published by Pathfinder. ... A boyar (also spelled bojar; Romanian: boier) was a member of the highest rank of the feudal Russian and Romanian aristocracy, second only to the ruling princes, from the 10th through the 17th century. ... Cheka-KGB emblem: sword and shield The Cheka (ЧК - чрезвычайная комиссия) was the first of many Soviet secret police organizations, created by decree on December 20, 1917 by Lenin and led by Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky. ... Tsar, (Bulgarian цар�, Russian царь; often spelled Czar or Tzar in English), was the title used for the autocratic rulers of the First and Second Bulgarian Empires since 913, in Serbia in the middle of the 14th century, and in Russia from 1547 to 1917. ... Commissar (комисса́р) was an official title used in post-revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union. ... DOSAAF was the name a paramilitary society of the Soviet Union, Voluntary Society of Assistance to the Army, the Air Force and the Navy. ... A Duma (Д́ума in Russian) is any of various representative assemblies in modern Russia and Russian history. ... Dvoryanstvo ( Russian: дворянство) refers to a category of Russian nobility. ... Dvoryanstvo (Russian: дворянство) refers to a category of Russian nobility. ... The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (Федера́льная слу́жба безопа́сности Росси́йской Федера́ции or ФСБ, Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii, FSB) is a state security organisation in Russia, the successor to the KGB by way of the FSK (Federalnaya Sluzhba Kontrrazvedki (Федера́льная Слу́жба Контрразве́дки), Federal Counterintelligence Service). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Guberniya (Russian: ) (also gubernia, guberniia, gubernya) was a major administrative subdivision of the Imperial Russia, usually translated as governorate or province. ... This article is part of or related to the Liberalism series Categories: Politics stubs | Liberal related stubs | Historical liberal parties | Political parties of Russian Revolution ... The KGB emblem and motto: The sword and the shield KGB (transliteration of КГБ) is the Russian-language abbreviation for State Security Committee, (Russian: (help· info); Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti). ... Kniaz’ or knyaz (князь in Russian and Ukrainian; cneaz in Romanian fem. ... A kolkhoz (pronounce: (help· info), Russian: ) was a form of collective farming in the Soviet Union that existed along with state farms (sovkhoz). ... Korenizatsiya (коренизация), meaning nativization or indigenization, was the early Soviet ethnicity policy. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Krai (Russian: край; British English transliteration: kray), is a term used to refer to several of Russias 89 administrative regions (federal subjects). ... Vladimir Lenin in 1920 Leninism is a political and economic theory which builds upon Marxism (the forerunner of Communism) and is a branch in its own right (it has been the dominant branch of Marxism in the world since the 1920s). ... Lishenets (Russian: лишенец), literally translated as disenfranchised, was a person stripped of the right of voting in the Soviet Union of 1918 — 1936. ... The Ministry of State Security (MGB) ( Russian: Министерство государственной безопасности (Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti)) was the name of the state security agency of the Soviet Union when it existed and also the planned sucessor of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. ... The Mensheviks were a faction of the Russian revolutionary movement that emerged in 1903 after a dispute between Vladimir Lenin and Julius Martov, both members of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. ... The Russian word mir (мир), besides its direct meanings of peace and world, had some other meanings related to social organization in Imperial Russia. ... Modern emblem of Russian MVD The Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del (MVD) (Министерство внутренних дел) was the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the imperial Russia, late USSR, and still bears the same name in the Russian Federation. ... Narkompros (Наркомпрос) is an abbreviation for the Peoples Commissariat for Enlightenment (Народный комиссариат просвещения), the Soviet agency charged with, among other things, the administration of public education. ... The New Economic Policy (NEP; in Russian Новая экономическая политика - Novaya Ekonomicheskaiya Politika or НЭП) was officially decided in the course of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party. ... The NKVD (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del (help· info))(Russian: НКВД, Народный комиссариат внутренних дел) or Peoples Commisariat for Internal Affairs was a government department which handled a number of the Soviet Unions affairs of state. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Russian word mir (мир), besides its direct meanings of peace and world, had some other meanings related to social organization in Imperial Russia. ... Oblast (Czech: oblast, Slovak: oblasÅ¥, Russian and Ukrainian: , Belarusian: , Bulgarian: о́бласт) refers to a subnational entity in some countries. ... The Okhrannoye otdeleniye (Russian: , meaning Security Section or Security Station), also the Okhrana or Tsarist Okhranka in Western sources, or diminutive Okhranka by those dissatisfied with the tsarist regime, was a secret police force of the Russian Empire and part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) in late 1800s... Okrug is a term to denote administrative subdivision in some Slavic states. ... The Oprichnina (Russian: Опричнина) formed a section of Russia ruled directly by the Tsar under Ivan the Terrible. ... Oprichnik (опричникъ) was a member of a private army (Oprichniks) devoted to the service of tsar Ivan the Terrible during the oprichina times (1565-1573). ... Poster showing Mikhail Gorbachev Perestroika â–¶ (help· info) (Перестро́йка) is the Russian word (which passed into English) for the economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. ... Politburo is short for Political Bureau. ... Propiska (Russian: пропи́ска; the full term is Прописка по месту жительства, The record of place of residence) was a regulation in the Soviet Union designed to control internal population movement by binding a person to his or her permanent place of residence. ... See rayon for the textile made of processed cellulose. ... A Silovik (силови́к, plural: siloviks or siloviki, силовики́, from a Russian word for force) is a Russian politician from the old security or military services, often the KGB and military officers or other security services who came into power in the teams of Boris Yeltsin or Vladimir Putin. ... SMERSH (short for SMERt SHpionam (СМЕРть Шпионам), or Death to Spies) was the name of counterintelligence departments in the Soviet Union formed during the Great Patriotic War, to secure the rear of the active Red Army, on the front to arrest traitors, deserters, spies, and criminal elements. // History The organization was created... A soviet (Russian: сове́т) originally was a workers local council in late Imperial Russia. ... A sovkhoz (Russian language: Совхоз, Советское хозяйство, sovetskoe khoziaistvo), typically translated as state farm, is a Soviet state-owned farm, in contrast with kolkhoz, which is a collective-owned farm. ... 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Stalinism is a brand of political theory, and the political and economic system named after Joseph Stalin, who implemented it in the Soviet Union. ... Stavka is an abbreviation for Shtab vierhovnogo komandovania, or General Headquarters of armed forces in late Imperial Russia and in the Soviet Union. ... Look up Tsar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary For the US community of Czar, see Czar, West Virginia. ... Look up Tsar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary For the US community of Czar, see Czar, West Virginia. ... A Tsarina (Russian and Bulgarian: цари́ца, tsaritsa), also spelled czarina, or czaritsa, was the title of Tsars wife or a female autocratic ruler (monarch) of Russia or Bulgaria. ... Look up Tsar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary For the US community of Czar, see Czar, West Virginia. ... Look up Tsar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary For the US community of Czar, see Czar, West Virginia. ... 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Religious

Beglopopovtsy

Bespopovtsy

Doukhobor

Chlysty

Lippovan, Lipovan, Lipovans

Molokan

Pomortsy

Popovtsy

Raskol

Raskolnik

Rogozhskoe Soglasie

Skoptzy

Starets

Yurodivy

Znamennoe singing

Beglopopovtsy (Беглопоповцы in Russian, which may be translated as runaway priests) was one of the denominations among the Popovtsy, who belonged to the Russian Old-Orthodox Church. ... Bespopovtsy (Russian: , priestless) is one of the two major strains of Old Believers, the one that rejects priests and a number of church rites, such as eucharist. ... The Doukhobors (Duchobozetz, Duchobortzi) (Russian Духоборы/Духоборцы) are a Christian dissenting sect of Russian origin. ... Khlysts or Khlysty (Хлысты in Russian), a distorted name, which comes from the word хлыст (khlyst), meaning a whip; the original name was a made-up word Христы (Khristy), or Christians), an underground sect in the late 17th, 18th, 19th and early 20th century that split off from the Russian... Lipovans or Lippovans (Old Faith Believers, Old Rite Followers) are a small (about 40,000) Slavic ethnic group of Russian origin residing in the delta of the Danube River in Tulcea county of eastern Romania. ... Lipovans or Lippovans (Old Faith Believers, Old Rite Followers) are a small (about 40,000) Slavic ethnic group of Russian origin residing in the delta of the Danube River in Tulcea county of eastern Romania. ... Lipovans or Lippovans (Old Faith Believers, Old Rite Followers) are a small (about 40,000) Slavic ethnic group of Russian origin residing in the delta of the Danube River in Tulcea county of eastern Romania. ... The Molokans (Russian: ) are a Biblically-centered religious movement, among the Russian peasants, who broke away from the Russian Orthodox Church in the 1550s. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Pomorian Old-Orthodox Church. ... The Popovtsy, or Popovschina (Поповцы, Поповщина in Russian; the name could translated as those who stand for the institution of priesthood), one of the two principal varieties (along with the Bespopovtsy) of the Old Believers, which was formed by the end of the 17th century in Russia. ... Painting by Vasily Perov. ... Raskol (Russian раско́л, meaning split or schism) was the event of splitting of the Russian Orthodox Church into the official church and the Old Believers movement. ... Rogozhskoe soglasie is the largest and one of the most temperate and optimistic denominations among the Popovtsy Old Believers. ... As of 1911, the Skoptzy (скопцы, also transliterated as Skoptzi, Skoptsi, Scoptsy and other spellings) were a secret sect of Russia. ... St Sergii Radonezhsky was one of the most famous of startsy. ... The yurodivy (accented on the second syllable, юро́дивый) is the Russian version of the holy fool. ... An example of hook and banner notation used by Okruzhniki Old Believers in 1884. ...

Technical, special

Chernozem , podsol, solonetz — soil types

Baidarka — a type of sea kayak

Elektrichka — a type of passenger electric train

Redan — a type of fortification, the word is of French origin

Tokamak — a plasma confinement device

Polynya — area of clear water in arctic ices

Rasputitsa — a season of muddy roads

Obsolete Russian weights and measures Chernozem, or Black Earth (from Russian: ), is a kind of soil. ... Podsol (also spelled Podzol, or known as Spodosol) is the typical soil of coniferous, or Boreal forests. ... Solonetz is a type of soil in FAO soil classification. ... Soil is material capable of supporting plant life. ... An Aleutian style sea kayak is sometimes called a baidarka. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Elektrichka - Russias version of a suburban train. ... For other types of train see train (disambiguation) In rail transport, a train consists of a single or several connected rail vehicles that are capable of being moved together along a guideway to transport freight or passengers from one place to another along a planned route. ... Redan is a term from fortifications. ... Fortification. ... A split image of the largest tokamak in the world, the JET, showing hot plasma in the right image during a shot. ... A Plasma lamp, illustrating some of the more complex phenomena of a plasma, including filamentation In physics and chemistry, a plasma is an ionized gas, and is usually considered to be a distinct phase of matter. ... A polynya (pronounced pol-in-YA) is an area of open water surrounded by sea ice. ... The rasputitsa (Russian: распу́тица) is the twice annual flooding of Belarus, western Russia and the Ukraine. ... Obsolete Russian weights and measures were used in Imperial Russia and after the Russian Revolution until they were replaced in the Soviet Union by a metric system in 1924. ...

Pood, a measure of weight

Verst, a measure of distance

Pood (Пуд in Russian) or pud is a unit of mass equal to 40 funt (фунт, Russian pounds). ... A verst (Russian versta, верста) is an obsolete Russian unit of length. ...

Various

These are some other untranslatable Russian terms that have articles in English language Wikipedia. Note: the translations given below transkate the words themselves, not the actual meaning behind the word (for example, Voskhod is any kind of rise in Russian, whereas here it means the spaceship's name).

BAM

Banya - sauna

Barynya - landlord's wife

Bayan - musical instrument

Belomorkanal (canal) and Belomorkanal (cigarettes)

Bylina - a folk story

Cantonist

Chainik - kettle

Chastushka - a short folk song, usually humorous

Dacha - country house

Ded Moroz - Russian Santa Claus

Dedovshchina

Junker (Russia)

Katorga - akin convicts sent to Australia

Kamarinskaya

Khorovod - a dance

Kurgan - a hill

Lysenkoism

Lunokhod

mat - Russian curse language

Muzhik - man

Palochka - (little) stick

Pravda - truth

Rodina - homecountry

Sambo - martial art

Samizdat

Samogon - a type of vodka created at home

Sharashka

Snegurochka

Soyuz - union

Titlo

Voskhod - sunrise (and kind of rise)

Vostok - east

Yabloko - apple

Zaum

Zvezda - star

Bam or BAM may mean: Bam, Iran Bam Province, Burkina Faso ISO 639 code for Bambara language Bam Margera An onomatopoeia for a sound. ... A banya (Russian баня), is a Russian steam bath, similar to a Finnish sauna. ... Barynya is a fast Russian folk dance and music. ... Bayan is an accordion-like Russian musical instrument. ... White Sea-Baltic Sea Canal (Russian: Belomorsko-Baltiyskiy Kanal (BBK)), opened on August 2, 1933 is a ship canal that joins the White Sea and the Baltic Sea near St. ... Belomorkanal (Cyrillic Беломорканал) is a brand of Russian cigarettes that was introduced to commemorate the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal, abbreviated as Belomorkanal in Russian language. ... Bylina (Russian: были́на, also Byliny and Stariny) is a traditional epic, heroic narrative poetry of early East Slavs of Kievan Rus, the tradition continued in Russia and Ukraine. ... // Cantonists in Prussia Cantonists (German: Kantonist, or a person living in a canton) were recruits in Prussia in 1733-1813, liable for draft in one of the cantons. ... Chainik (Russian: чайник, teakettle). Almost synonymous with muggle. ... Chastushka (часту́шка), a type of traditional Russian poetry, is a single quatrain in trochaic tetrameter with an abab or abcb rhyme scheme. ... Dacha â–¶(?) (Russian: да́ча) is a name for summer home or vacation house in Russia and CIS countries where people spend their summer holidays and grow fruit and vegetables for their own use. ... Russian Ded Moroz In the culture of the eastern Slavs the traditional character Ded Moroz (Russian: ) plays a role similar to that of Santa Claus. ... Dedovshchina (Russian: ) is the name given to the informal system of subjugation of new junior recruits for the Russian armed services, MVD, and border guards to soldiers of the last year of service. ... Junker (Юнкер in Russian, or yunker) has several meanings. ... Katorga (ка́торга, from Greek: katergon (galley)) was a system of penal servitude in Imperial Russia. ... Kamarinskaya is a Russian traditional dance, which is mostly known today as the Russian composer Glinkas opus. ... Khorovod (Russian: хоровод, Belarussian: карагод) is an art form of Eastern Slavs, a combination of a circle dance and chorus singing, similar to Chorea of ancient Greece. ... Kurgan (кургáн) is the Russian word (of Turkic origin) for tumulus, a type of burial mound or barrow, heaped over a burial chamber, often of wood. ... Lysenko speaking at the Kremlin in 1935. ... Lunokhod (Russian for Moon walker) 1 and 2 were a pair of unmanned lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union. ... Mat (Russian: мат, or ма́терный язы́к) is Russian sexual slang, revolving particularly around the use of specific generally unprintable vulgar words. ... Muzhik is an untranslatable Russian word; at base an informal reference to a man, similar to dude or chap. ... Palochka (Ӏ) (ru: па́лочка, a stick) is a letter added to the Cyrillic alphabet when used in writing several Caucasian languages, such as Abaza, Adyghe, Avar, Chechen, Dargwa, Ingush, Kabardian, Lak, Lezgian and Tabassaran. ... This article describes the Soviet/Russian newspaper. ... Kievs monumental statue of the Motherland, a memorial of the Great Patriotic War (World War II) Kyiv, Ukraine Rodina (РОДИНА, Motherland) can refer to: Rodina Mat, (Mother of the Motherland) a monumental statue of the Motherland, on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia, dedicated 1967. ... The logo of the International Federation of Amateur Sambo Sambo (Russian, самбо) -- (also called Sombo and sometimes written in all-caps) is a modern martial art, combat sport and self-defense system developed in the Soviet Union. ... Samizdat, book published by Pathfinder Press containing a collection of forbidden Trotskyist Samizdat texts. ... Samogon (ru: самого́н) is the Russian name for any home-made distilled alcoholic beverage (cf. ... Sharashka (sometimes Sharaga or Sharazhka, Russian: ) was an informal name for secret research and development laboratories in the Soviet Gulag labor camp system. ... Snegurochka (Russian: ), or the Snow Maiden, is a character in Russian fairy tales. ... Soyuz is Russian for Union. Depending on the context, Soyuz may also refer to either of the following: The originally Soviet (now Russian) Soyuz program of human spaceflight The Soyuz spacecraft, used in that program The Soyuz launch vehicle that is used to launch those and other spacecraft This is... Titlo is an extended diacritic symbol used in old Cyrillic manuscripts, e. ... Voskhod (Russian: Восход, translated as Sunrise) is the name of: The Soviet Voskhod programme of human spaceflight The spacecraft used in that programme The rocket that was used to launch those spacecraft It is also: A brand of camera A brand of motorcycle This is a disambiguation page — a navigational... Vostok (Russian: , translated as East) may refer to one of the following. ... Current Yabloko logo Yabloko, or Yabloko Russian Democratic Party (Russian: Росси́йская Демократи́ческая Па́ртия Я́блоко; English transliteration: Rossiyskaya Demokraticheskaya Partiya Yabloko) is a Russian liberal... Alexander Rodchenkos bookcover for Kruchonykhs treatise Zaum (1921). ... Zvezda (Звезда) is the Russian word for star. See the following related articles. ...

See also

• Cyrillic alphabet
• Runglish
• Volapuk encoding
• Category:Russian terminology and its subcategories

The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... Runglish (Ruglish, Russlish), is a neologism increasingly used to denote at least three different interferences of Russian and English languages: pidgin, spoken manner, and informal latinizations of the Cyrillic alphabet. ... Volapuk encoding (Russian: кодировка воляпюк (or волапюк, kodirovka volapyuk)) is a slang term for rendering the letters of the Cyrillic alphabet by the Latin ones. ...

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For a list of words with Russian language origins, see the Russian derivations category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary

• Glossary -- Soviet Union