Resources for Russian Research

Profile managers: Zoiya Tate [send private message] and Slavic Roots Project at WikiTree [send private message]

Russian Resources

• Family Search, Russia - excellent resources!
• Russia on Wikipedia
• All Russia Family Tree; a research project who researches surnames of people connected with Russia, and their family trees.
• Russian Genealogy and Digging up Your Russian Roots
• Russian Tombstone Project

Russian History Resources

• Russia
• Russian History
• Outline of Russia
• Portal: Russia
• Russia's National Anthem
• Russian History on Family Search
• Tsardom of Russia (1547-1721)
• Russian Empire- (1721-1917)
  • Russian Revolution of 1905
  • Russian Revolution of 1917
• Russian Republic- (March 1917-November 1917)
• Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic - (1917-1922)
• Soviet Union (USSR) - (1922-1991)
  • Soviet Union
• Russian Federation - (1922 - present)
  • Constitution of Russia
  • 1988 Russian Financial Crisis
• Former Countries in Europe
• Russian Holocaust, 1932
  • The First Holocaust Of The 20th Century

Russian Military History

• Russia in the Great War
• Soviet Union in World War II
  • The Invasion of the Soviet Union and the Beginnings of Mass Murder
  • INVASION OF THE SOVIET UNION, JUNE 1941
  • Russia's Role
  • Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center

Russia's Geography and Climate

• University of Texas, Russian Map Collection - mostly copyright free
• Maps of Russia
• Maps and Images
• Learning about Russia
• Russia Physical Maps
• Geography and Climate of Russia
• Global position and boundaries
• EcoRegions, Topography, Drainage
• Climate
• Area and Boundaries
• Land and Natural Resources

Russian Government

• President of Russia - Vladimir Putin
• Russian Government Structure

Russian Culture

• Russian Culture and Resources - (to include: languages, populations, Visual arts, Music and dance, Literature and philosophy, Cinema, animation and media, Sports, National holidays and symbols, Tourism, Must-see)

Russian Notables

• Category: Entertainers, - writers, artist, actors, Presidents, Politicians, etc
• Notable Russian People
• Boris Yeltsin - Russian President
• William Shatner - Actor
• Joseph Stalin - Russian Leader
• The Rosenbergs, convicted of espionage during the Cold War - Julius and Ethel ^[1]
• Nikita Khrushchev
• Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composer
• Russian Artists
• Famous People
• Black Sheep Project
  • Accused Apartment Bombers
  • KGB Defectors

Royalty and Nobility

• Russian Nobility
• Lists of Russian Nobility
• House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
• House of Romanov - exists already under EuroAristo -can link our profiles- could also add a sub-category "Russian Royalty and Nobility" under (Category: Royalty) and (Category: Aristocracy and Nobility), for use as a sub-category of Russian Roots
  • Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov
  • Nikolay II Aleksandrovich Romanov
  • Alexandra Feodorovna (Princess Alix)

Russian Name Studies

• One Name Studies - Add Russian category
• Russian Naming Conventions - The Russian patronyms are "ovich" for a son and "ova" for a daughter. Thus, Alexandrovich means son of Alexander. (see G2G post regarding names)

Russia Place Studies

Russia and America

• Russian Immigrants to America
• Migrants from Russia to Canada
• Renegades and Spies
• US Ambassadors to Russia and see it on Wikipedia.
• Russian America (Русская Америка) -Russian colonial possessions in North America from 1733 to 1867 - Settlements included parts of present day California, Alaska, and Hawaii.
• Russian American Company (Российская-Американская Компания) - chartered company whose mission was to "establish new settlements in Russian America, conduct trade with natives, and carry out an expanded colonization program. " ^[2]
• [1] -- Russian refugees in Malta, 1919.

Russian Records

• Russia Census Records
• Russian Church Records
• Civil Registration
• Court Records
• Public Directories
• Emigration & Immigration Records
• Compiled Genealogies
• Land and Property
• Military Records
• Naturalization and Citizenship
• Russian Newspapers
• Notarial Records
• Obituaries
• Periodicals
• Russian Population Info
• Probate Records
• Tax Records

Cemeteries in Russia

• Russian Cemeteries

Wikipedia

References

1. ↑ Renegades and Spies
2. ↑ Russian American Company, Wikipedia