Library of Russian Digital Libraries

A pile of translations into Russian & original Russian literature in Minsk.

The name speaks for itself. This site offers Byelorussian poetry in latin transliteration or Byelorussian KOI8.

This site contains texts in Word for Windows 6.0 format (Win 1251), in ZIP archives: Maine Reid (mostly), Lewis Carroll, Gabriel Garcia Markes, Rustam Ibragimbekov, Sholom Aleikhem. Boris recommends to use his Geocities mirror if the access to his main site is bad.

A large collection (2.5 Gb, 2000 authors & 10 000 texts), sorted by authors (some graphic here), and groups. This site has evolved from the old Dmitriy Tribis's Library.

A heap of Russian texts, nothing really much. They claim that they have lots of new books. I don't know.

Gennady Alekseyev, Victor Konetsky, Mikhail Mishin, Semyon Altov, Igor Kubersky, V. Fedorov, V. Shchigelsky, Oleg Grinevsky, Vladimir Kunin, Mikhail Chulaki, Aleksandr Zhitinsky, Vladimir Shinkarev, Aleksandr Kats, Aleksandr Melikhov, Victor Emsky. This site is maintained by the Novy Gelikon publishing house of A. N. Zhitinsky.

A convenient site.

This library is a collection of works by non-professional writers. In March it contained the following sections: Sofa stories, Prose, Poetry, Science fiction, Fantasy, and Humor. It is revised every month.

A small pretty library of popular fiction.

A well made Library with many specific sections. The quality of texts on specific branches of knowledge is not always good.

The file archive of Rinet Corp. in Novosibirsk. Its literary part has an extensive digital library containing texts by Russian and foreign writers, reviews on various topics, etc..

Works of beginning men-of-letters. Poetry is not bad at all.

A large file archive containing text files.

Yesenin, Byron, Shakespeare, Schiller. Nothing else.

A good site. Yet one could expect much more from Odessa.

A Literary Cafe in the Internet. It features interviews with famous writers and poets, texts of their works (delicious, but not enough).

13 authors, classical mostly.

The largest of Russian digital libraries (1700 Mb of miscellaneous texts). This site has about 20 official mirrors.

A convenient enough collection of popular fiction. More than 500 texts of about 200 authors. At this library you can either read a text online, or download a RAR archive of it, but some archives would not open.

The Public Digital Library of Yevgeny Peskin (former EEL - Eugene's Electronic Library) is a private collection of texts in computer format. The library exists since 1992. Last update: June 1998.

A library for Palm PC users having about 300 texts. If you don't have a Palm PC, this site is useless for you.

A small collection of Russian and world classical literature, science fiction, and of historical, philosophical, psychological, and texts on religion.

This site is not much of a library. Yet, the authors, though few, are really good.

An archive of translations & original texts maintained by Sergej Tarasov and Andrej Novikov, a translator from Riga. About 8 Mb.

A large, well made collection of popular writers' books and free Internet periodicals in Russian.

The biggest collection of Ukrainian literature on the Net in "ZIP"archives.

VIVOS VOCO! has been created as an archive of "evergreen" popular stuff on science, history, literature, psychology, and other topics wich were published during the last three decades.

This library is located at the Voronezh municipal server. All the texts are classified according to their topics. If you don't know the author of the text you need, you can't find anything.

Art and literature. The literary part contains classical writers, silver age and soviet samizdat, not much of everything.