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  2. Lib.ru - Wikipedia

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    Lib.ru, also known as Maksim Moshkow's Library (Russian: библиотека Максима Мошкова, started to operate in November 1994) is the oldest electronic library in the Russian Internet segment . Founded and supported by Maksim Moshkow, it receives contributions mainly from users who send texts they scanned and processed ( OCR ...

  3. The Little Golden Calf - Wikipedia

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    The Twelve Chairs. The Little Golden Calf ( Russian: Золотой телёнок, Zolotoy telyonok) is a satirical picaresque novel by Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, published in 1931. Its main character, Ostap Bender, also appears in a previous novel by the authors called The Twelve Chairs. The title alludes to the "golden calf" of the Bible .

  4. National Library of Russia - Wikipedia

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    Interactive map with main library buildings. TheNational Library of Russia ( NLR, Russian: Российская национальная библиотека, РНБ ), located in Saint Petersburg, is the first, [2] and one of three national public libraries in Russia. [3] The NLR is currently ranked among the world's major libraries.

  5. Russian Synodal Bible - Wikipedia

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    The Russian Synodal Bible ( Russian: Синодальный перевод, The Synodal Translation) is a Russian non- Church Slavonic translation of the Bible commonly used by the Russian Orthodox Church, Catholic, as well as Russian Baptists [1] and other Protestant communities in Russia. The translation dates to the period 1813–1875, and ...

  6. Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences - Wikipedia

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    The Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( Russian: Библиотека Российской академии наук (БАН)) is a large state-owned Russian library based in Saint Petersburg on Vasilievsky Island and open to employees of institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences and scholars with higher education. It is a part ...

  7. Dina Rubina - Wikipedia

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    Literary career. Rubina is one of the most prominent Russian-language Israeli writers. [2] Her books have been translated into 30 languages. [3] Her major themes are Jewish and Israeli history, migration, nomadism, neo-indigeneity, messianism, metaphysics, [4] theatre, autobiography and the interplay between the Israeli and Russian Jewish ...

  8. Dry Valley (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Dry Valley. (novel) Dry Valley ( Russian: Суходол, romanized : Sukhodo′l) is a short novel by a Nobel Prize -winning Russian author Ivan Bunin, first published in the April 1912 issue of the Saint Petersburg Vestnik Evropy magazine. [1] Having come out soon after The Village (1910), it is usually linked to the latter as the author's ...

  9. Oblomov - Wikipedia

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    Oblomov. Oblomov (Russian: Обломов; [ɐˈbɫoməf]) is the second novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is the central character of the novel, portrayed as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century Russian literature.