Attention: Most of them speak both English and Russian.
Sometimes making a connection to a server in Russia is slow
or impossible, so if your attempt failed, try later again !
Several servers provide WWW access to sites
in Russia. Some of them are maintained by commercial companies,
other provided by not-for-profit organizations (mainly by research and educational
institutions). Some of
them keep their own lists or a sensitive map with references to other
servers. Main providers of electronic communications in Russia are
the following.
- DEMOS -
main Index (commercial company)
- FREEnet Web (non-profit):
Moscow siteand the
Ural Regional Center.
FREEnet's aim is integrate all major universities and educational
institutions. The FREEnet Web server provides information about the
resources on FREEnet, the Russian academic and research network (under
development). The server is a central access point to the information
services in the FREEnet.
- GLASNET
Home Page (major not-for-profit Internet provider).
- RAS (Russian Academy of Sciences).
List
of Russian WWW servers and a
sensitive map.
This site and other centers of RAS are supported by International
Science Foundation organized by American billionaire and philantropist
George Soros. You can read the summary of his
speech about the
PERILS OF THE POST-COMMUNIST ERA.
Here is a
sensitive map of Russian universities from the Novgorod State Univ.
server (by Vyacheslav Federov; slava@novsu.ac.ru )
- RELCOM
Window-to-Russia
Home Page and the list of
Russian WWW Servers arranged by RELCOM
(commercial provider of electronic communications
in Russia.
- SOVAM Teleport (commercial company) runs a new project
Russia-On-line and asks for
feedback.
Moscow site and the
site in Kiev(Ukrain).
- Russian search engine
maintained on server in Pushchino, Russia. Copyright © 1996-97 Stack Ltd., All Rigths Reserved. Comments: webmaster@stack.net
- InterFoto, the web site of
the Annual Moscow International Photojournalism Festival and contest.
InterFoto organizes the Russian "Best Photo of the Year" contest for
Russian and C.I.S. Photojournalists and Professional Photographers.
Information about the first two InterFoto festivals (1995, 1996) and
InterFoto 97 which will be held in Moscow in May. This link was submitted
by Bill Swersey, Co-Director of InterFoto. Send comments to:
bswersey@aol.com
-
Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
- An excellent sensitive (i.e. clickable) map of servers inside
Russia is maintained by
Vladimir Pekkel (San Antonio, Texas, USA).
- Institute of Applied Physics and scientific information agency "SANDY"
in Nizhniy Novgorod
- Alphabetically ordered list
Russian and xSU Web from Gelendzhik-Relcom
server.
- Russian Cities on the Web,
WWW server from N.Novgorod (Russia)
- Palantiri.Networks, Internet provider in
St.Petersburg
Notes, travelogues, travel tips.
If you are looking for additional textual information,
you can return back to
Impressions of Russia and the Former USSR.
If you would like to see more pictures, please go back to
All Regions of Russia by Pictures.
Looking on pictures, you will find a lot of new servers inside Russia.
Good luck !