Russian & Slavic Studies
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Facts & Figures
Statistics, Maps
ArchEurope: Base Map. - CD ROM
Providing basic map data for Europe including country and province boundaries, roads, railroads, cities and towns, canals, and water. Data is for 2000.
ArchEurope: Demographics. - CD ROM
Providing demographic information such as sex, age, births, deaths, households, and dwellings by country and region. Also provides purchasing power by region. Data is for 2000.
Central Eurasian Interactive Atlas
Provides access to geographic data on population and labor, social services, business, industry and agriculture, investments, transportation and communication, trade, finances and prices for the Russian Federation and other countries of Central Eurasia.
The CIA World Factbook
Gives detailed, up to date information on hundreds of countries around the world, including the countries of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.
Columbia Gazeteer of the World
Geographic dictionary of places, physical features, political subdivisions, and special places of the world. Provides type of place, location and description. Descriptions vary from a brief entry for a small village to lengthy essays for a country or state. Transliteration of place names generally follows BGN [Board of Geographic Names] guidelines.
Geomorphological map of the U.S.S.R. - G7001 C2 1960 A4 Map Coll.
6 maps produced by the Geographic Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. In Russian. Legend translated into English.
Имена городов: вчера и сегодня: 1917-1992: топонимический словарь [Imena gorodov : vchera i segodnia: 1917-1992: toponimicheskii slovar]. - DK18.7 .P67 1993 Main.
Provides old and new names for Imperial Russian/Soviet/Russian cities through 1992.
Index map of Russia - Russland 1:50,000, 1:100,000 AND 1:200,000. - G7001 A2 1960 U5 Map Coll.
10 Indexes of Russian maps created by the Army Map Service.
Народонаселение: энциклопедический словарь [Narodonaselenie : entsiklopedicheskii slovar]. - HB849.2 .N37 1994 Main.
Encyclopedic dictionary of demographics.
Население России за 100 лет, 1897-1997: статестический сборник [Naselenie Rossii za 100 let, 1897-1997 : statisticheskii sbornik]. - HA1450.12 .N37 1998 Main.
Statistical information on Russian demographics from 1897-1997.
Всесоюзная перепись населения 1939 года: основные итоги [Vsesoiuznaia perepis' naseleniia 1939 goda: osnovnye itogi]. Main HA1434 1939
Major statistical findings from the 1939
Nationality and Population Change in Russia and the USSR: An Evaluation of Census Data, 1897-1970. Main HB3607 .L47
Place names of Russia and the former Soviet Union. - DK15 .R66 1996 Main Ref.
Research guide to the Russian and Soviet censuses. - HB3607 .R43 1986 Main.
Results of the 1989 USSR Population Census. - HA1434 1989 Main Stacks.
Believed to be the most comprehensive population census of the former Soviet Union, this is an English and Russian language CD-ROM version of the 1992 microfiche edition representing 24 volumes and 15,000 pages. The database format allows searches that were impossible with the microfiche edition. Results of the 1999-2000 census, though less comprehensive, are available online at http://www.elections.ru
Biographical Information
Biography and genealogy master index
An index to hundreds of sources with biographical information on people worldwide and from all time periods. Does not give actual biographical information, only information on which reference resources one can find that information in.
The Complete Marquis' Who's Who
Available through the Biography Resource Center, this online database gives fulltext access to the Complete Marquis' Who's Who as well as hundreds of articles and other fulltext information.
Деятели СССР и революционного движения России: Энциклопедический словарь [Deiateli SSSR i revoliutsionnogo dvizheniia Rossii: Entsiklopedicheskii slovar']. - Main DK266 .E562 1989
A reprint edition of parts 1-3 of volume 41 of the 7th ed. of the Granat Entsiklopedicheskii slovar', this contains biographies of 289 persons prominent between 1917-1927, many of whom cannot be found in any later Soviet reference works.
Dictionary of Russian literature since 1917. - PG2991.4 .K37 1988 Main Ref.
Provides biographical information on over 600 Russian authors since the Revolution.
Dictionary of Russian women writers. - PG2997 .D53 1994 Main Ref.
Covers lives and works of 448 Russian women writers from 1760 to 1992.
Free voices in Russian literature, 1950s-1980s : a bio-bibliographical guide. - PG2951 .S75 1987 Main Ref.
Gives biographical data on over 900 authors whose publications appeared in the West from the mid-1950's to the mid-1980's.
Кто есть кто? [Kto est' kto?]
Gives biographical information on important personages in Russia. In Russian.
The Modern encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet literature. - PG2940 .M6 Main Ref.
An ongoing series. Currently at 10 volumes. Consists of articles on authors, literary movements, and cultural figures in Russian/Soviet literature.
Russian Genealogical Site (All Russian Family Tree)
This is a pretty amazing site for Russian genealogical research and biographical information. Mostly in Russian.
Russisches Biographisches Archiv [Russian Biographical Archive]. - CT1203 1997 Main Ref Microfiche Cabinet
A remarkable resource. Consists of approximately 160,000 bibliographical entries for 75,000 individuals from the earliest times to the
end of the dynasty of the Romanovs in 1917. Compiled from more than 150 source works published between 1827 and 1995. The index to this set is in the Main Reference Stacks at the same call number. In Russian with some English, French & German.
Biography Reference Bank
Biography Reference Bank contains narrative profiles of over a half million people. Included are the original profiles of Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated (covering many print volumes of biographical reference books published by H. W. Wilson and others, including all volumes of Current Biography), combined with thorough periodicals coverage of Biography Index and full text articles, page images, and abstracts from the complete range of Wilson databases.