Library of Congress

The Library of Congress has the largest collection of materials related to Russian and Eurasian studies outside of Russia. Here are some highlights from the Library of Congress collection:

ALA-LC Romanization Tables
How the Library of Congress transliterates Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, and other languages using non-Roman scripts.

Collection of Post-Soviet Ephemera
An index to diverse materials gathered from the Soviet Union at the time of its collapse in 1991 and shortly thereafter. Materials range from propaganda posters and new political party proclamations to exhibition pamphlets and profiles of contemporary artists. Approximately 200 files in this collection.

The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated
An online version of the 2001 exhibit at the Library of Congress.

Meeting of Frontiers
A bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library.   See also the "Meeting of Frontiers" Conference site.

Old Russian Manuscripts of the Pushkinskii Dom  
An index to microfilmed manuscripts from the Pushkinskii Dom filmed under an agreement of the Library of Congress and the Department of Defense with the Pushkinskii Dom.

Portals to the World: Russia
A guide to Russian internet resources, organized by subject. Part of the Library's Portals to the World project.

Russian Telephone Directories at the Library of Congress
A finding aid.

Revelations from the Russian Archives
An online version of the 1992 exhibit at the Library of Congress. See also information on ordering an illustrated book containing representative documents from this exhibit.

Yudin Collection
A description of the collection that the Library of Congress purchased from Gennadii Vasil'evich Yudin (1840-1912), a wealthy Siberian distiller and amateur bibliographer, in 1906.