This page allows interested users easy access to on-line Russian-language dictionaries.  For the most part (but NOT entirely), they are those not listed by Dr. Beard in his Web of On-line (Russian) dictionaries.

On-Line

Retail

On-Line Dictionaries

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English to Russian Only	Russian to English Only	Russian Only
Other languages and Russian (no English)	Other languages and Russian (with English)	Russian-English-Russian

Sites with numerous dictionaries

(For the most part, dictionaries on these sites are not included in the compilation further below)

• ABBYY Lingvo.  Free dictionaries created by users for download and use with ABBYY Lingvo.
• Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias. Includes an English-only resource.
• Gramota.RU.  This site has been on-line for over 20 years and allows users to ask questions at no cost about Russian grammar and language.
• World of Dictionaries (Mir Slovarei) For the most part Russian-Russian only; however, the medical dictionary, for one, translates some terms into English
• Yandex Dictionaries.  A Google-type translation app.

English to Russian Only

• Beverages. Drinks, cocktails
• Biologic Terms.  Long, alphabetic list of names of living things translated into Russian and with their Latin name provided.  Biology
• Canine Dictionary  An English-Russian Dictionary for dog owners. (The "Bark English" dictionary is gone.)Dogs
• English-Russian Dictionary of Financial Terms.  Over 13,000 entries.  Finance
• English-Russian Glossary of the Microfinance Terms English to Russian.  Very complete. Download the PDF file.  Finance
• Gymnastics Terms in Russian.  Gymnastics. Note this caveat: "This page is old! We are a Museum & an unsorted Archive.
• Sharks.  Another section of the site for Biologic Terms, above. Types of sharks translated into Russian
   

  Russian to English Only

  
  

• The Alternative Russian Dictionary.  All terms are transliterated; Warning! Profanity. 
• The Alternative Russian Dictionary in downloadable PDF format. Oddly, some terms are in transliteration and some in Cyrillic.
• A Collocational Russian-English Dictionary of the Human Body.  Human body.
• Russian-English slang dictionary. A dictionary of foul and informal language. Warning! Profanity.

Russian Only

• A listing of all the animal dictionaries the site has available.
• The Akademik collection. A very large number of dictionaries. Types of dictionaries include religious, political, geographics and much, much morel.
• Azbukovnik Publishers. In Russian only, assorted dictionaries. All the things I used to like about it seem to be gone.
• Dictionary of Maritime Terms.  Maritime.
• Drug addict's dictionary.  Drug addiction
• Hip Joint Displacement.  Terms encountered in hip joint displacement.  Dogs
• Maritime Dictionary. Maritime.
• Maritime Insurance.  Maritime; insurance.
• Ozehgov dictionary on-line. Толковый словарь русского языка.
• Sokrashenia Russia (SOKR.RU)  The place to go for Russian acronyms and abbreviations. Acronyms

Russian-English-Russian

• Dictionaries.  A large collection of dictionaries on one Web site.  Topics are Encyclopedic, Translation, Medical, Specialist, Economic, Technical and Miscellaneous, which include such things as paint ball, diving, and more.
• Glossaries and Dictionaries of the Flarus Translation Bureau. Includes such glossaries as metalurgy, welding, trade policy, logistics and many more. Some are Russian only.
• Online English to Russian to English Dictionary.
• PROMT's Online Translator  As with all machine translation, this one for Russian-Engish/English Russian is about 80 percent accurate, and it is limited to about 100 characters per translation.
• The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire.  Not really a dictionary per se, but useful for Russian linguists who may come across that obscure ethnic name for an area, group or language.  Also note the associated index of peoples, tribes, dialects and languages and index of peoples according to language groups.  Peoples, ethnic groups
• The Russian Dictionary Tree, a learner's grammatical dictionary created at Cornell University
• Rustran.com.  Translate words or sententences between Russian and English.
• Zalizniak's dictionary.  Accessed on the same page as the Ozhegov, above, it also has a place for one to log in, but it does not seem to matter.

Other Languages and Russian
(with English)

• Softissimo's Màchine Translation Site.  Not really a dictionary, but certainly can be used as one.  As usual, accurate for easier text.  It hasn't a clue how to translate correctly  "forward-swept wing fighter aircraft," for instance.

Other Languages and Russian
(No English)

• Deutsch-Russisches Wörterbuch
• Slovar for Windows 95/98.  Download an Italian-Russian-Italian and/or a Finnish-Russian-Finnish dictionary, free!

  Retail Dictionary Resources

• Ectaco.  "Ectaco is the world leader in the development and manufacture of the electronic handheld dictionaries." Commercial site.
• Lingvo from Abbyy Software. Commercial site.  My favorite electronic dictionary.
• Multilingual Books Russian Page Commercial site. Large selection of intermediate and advanced course materials, dictionaries, etc.

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