Runivers
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Type of business | Nonprofit |
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Type of site | Online Library |
Headquarters | Moscow |
Owner | Runivers (non-profit) |
URL | http://runivers.ru/ |
Commercial | No |
Launched | 2007 |
Current status | Active |
Runivers (Russian: Руниверс) is a site devoted to
Runivers is an online library aimed to provide free access to authentic documents, books and texts related to
The main body of the collection consists of facsimile copies of books and journals published before 1917 as well as archive photos and documents on the history and culture of Russia.[1]
The digitalizing is supported by Transneft.[2]
Collection
Books and publications
As of August 2010, Runivers claimed to contain over 1,500 books (high quality
Photo collection
Runivers offers a collection of photographs taken by distinguished Russian photographers at the turn of the 20th century. Each
There are galleries of:
- Dmitriev, Maksim Petrovich
- Den'er, Andrey Ivanovich
- Levitsky, Sergei Lvovich
- Karl Karlovich Bulla
- Barschevskiy, Ivan Fedorovich
- Karelin, Andrey Osipovich
- Karrik, Vasiliy Andreevich
- Prokudin-Gorsky, Sergey Mikhaylovich
Encyclopedias
Runivers features a military history encyclopedia combined from:
- Encyclopedic Military Lexicon. Sankt-Petersburg. 1852–1855 (Военный энциклопедический лексикон)
- Encyclopedia of Military and Marine Sciences. Sankt-Petersburg. 1883–1897 (Энциклопедия военных и морских наук)
- Military Enceclopedia. Published by Sytin. Sankt-Petersburg. 1911–1915 (Военная энциклопедия Сытина)
Other parts
- Complete collection of laws of Russian Empire
- Complete collection of military encyclopedias
- Many other dictionaries and encyclopedias
- Periodical. Journal "Questions of philosophy and psychology" was not available for general public in Soviet Union
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Archival documents collected by Russian Academy of Sciences and the Archeographic Commission
- Collection of books on military and marine history of Russia
- There are more than 3200 historical documents presented in the Runivers covering the following topics:
- Biographies and main works of Russian philosophers as well as their books, manuscript, letters, diaries.
See also
References
- ^ Russia Launches Internet Portal to Fight 'Falsification of History'
- ^ Report from runivers.ru, read 5 August 2011
External links
Media related to Images from runivers.ru at Wikimedia Commons