Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!hookup!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!news.nap.net!nntp04.primenet.com!news.shkoo.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!mack.rt66.com!pmh11 From: kalmoth@rt66.com (Peter Vorobieff) Newsgroups: soc.culture.russian,soc.answers,news.answers Subject: [soc.culture.russian] SCR and Cyrillization FAQ: part 4/4 (miscellaneous info) Followup-To: soc.culture.russian Date: Mon, 05 Aug 96 01:01:29 GMT Organization: The Pit of Shoggoths Lines: 265 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU Expires: 06 Sep 1996 23:59:59 GMT Message-ID: <4u3h59$99g_004@pmh11.rt66.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pmh11.rt66.com X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #3 Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu soc.culture.russian:58605 soc.answers:5797 news.answers:78552 Archive-Name: cultures/russian/misc Posting-Frequency: monthly Last-Modified: 1996/08/04 Version: 2.0 URL: http://www.rt66.com/~kalmoth/scrFAQ.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- This part of SOC.CULTURE.RUSSIAN.FAQ answers the questions: - Where can one buy/order Russian books and magazines in the United States? - How to get visas to/from Russia? - How can I get in touch with the Russian Consulate in the US? - What phone company can one use to call to Russia? - What is the cheapest way to fly to Russia? - What is the FUN way of flying IN Russia? - How to obtain information about Moscow University courses, etc? - Are there any Russian newspapers/magazines available on Internet/WWW? - What are the places on WWW to look for information on Russian music? - What literature in Russian is available on WWW? - Where can I find recipes of Russian quisine? - What is the current situation with parliamentary and presidential elections in Russia? - How are things going in Russian football? - What is the state of role-playing gaming in Russia? 4.1 ORDERING RUSSIAN BOOKS AND MAGAZINES Russian Bookstore: Victor Kamkin, Inc. 4956 Boilng Brook Parkway, Rockville, Maryland 20852 E-MAIL: kamkin@sovusa.com This company also has stores in NYC and on the West Coast. MIP Company (best known for publishing the secret journal allegedly written by Pushkin in 1836-1837) URL: http://www.mipco.com 4.2 VISA INFORMATION Information on the visa regime, requirements, etc. can be found at the WWW site maintained by Simon Hawkin , URL URL: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cema/russia.html 4.3 RUSSIAN CONSULATE IN WASHINGTON Embassy of the Russian Federation Consular Division 1825 Phelps Place NW Washington, DC 20008 Tel. (202) 939-8907, 8913, 8918 Fax (202) 483-7579 There are other Russian Consulates in the US. New York, San Francisco. 4.4 PHONE COMPANY RATES ON CALLS TO RUSSIA There's a price war between AT&T, Sprint and MCI going on right now, with the consumer being the obvious winner. The rates on calls to Russia are steadily dropping and are now in most cases less than a dollar per minute. The optimal choice of a company depends very much on the amount of time you spend on the phone, frequency and duration of the calls, number of people you call and so on. El-cheapo companies like Cyberlink often advertise better rates the big ones, but usually with some nasty strings attached (like monthly service charges, no refund for disconnects and so on). 4.5. CHEAPEST RATES ON FLYING TO RUSSIA Rates vary greatly from company to company, and the best are offered usually by small travel agencies operated by former denizens of the Soviet Union. To find these, browse through the ads in your local "Russian newspaper." One of such agencies can be reached at 1-800-375-3639 (BEMEX), another at 1-202-789-2255 (EurAm Tours). An agency offering sales of airplane tickets to Russia and other services is now on the WWW, URL URL: http://www.users.interport.net/~lana/ambertours/ Finally, for travel between Australia and Russia check URL: http://www.magna.com.au/~gatrav 4.6 THE FUN WAY OF FLYING _IN_ RUSSIA The material below was written by Ro Nagey . "If you've ever dreamed of being a Top Gun, flying a MiG-29 at Mach 2 in Moscow, I suggest this interesting site: URL: http://www.mig29.com/mig29/ Fly With Us!, Inc. offers its customers the incredible opportunity to take the controls of a high-performance supersonic jet in Moscow. Among the possibilities, we let clients take the controls of HIND helicopters,and jets such as the SU-29, Su-30,MiG-25, MiG-31 along with a number of other aircraft. A member of the Flight Research Institute is your co-pilot. They are the very best pilots in Russia today. While in Moscow, many packages let you stay in a world-class hotel, have a guide and driver at your disposal, and visit private air and space museums." 4.7. MOSCOW UNIVERSITY Check the URL URL: http://www.rector.msu.su/ Not exactly what one would expect from Moscow University WWW server, but still something... 4.8. RUSSIAN ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPERS/E-ZINES On WWW, check URLs URL: http://gaim.unh.edu/csrc/gaim/siberia/siberia.html URL: http://www.io.org/~balex URL: http://www.glasnet.ru/ng/index.html (Nezavisimaya Gazeta) URL: http://koi.www.online.ru/mlists/izvestia/izvestia-izvestia/ (Izvestia) - looks like this link is no longer free :( URL: http://koi.www.online.ru/mlists/expchronicle/chronicle-weekly/ (Ekspress-Khronika) 4.9 RUSSIAN MUSIC ON WWW This home page contains some information on many Russian artists, including Okudjawa, GrEbenschikov and Malinin. Ptooey! Anyway, here's the URL: URL: http://mars.uthscsa.edu/Russia/Music/ The MIT collection of Russian Song lyrics (and not only lyrics) features stuff by Vizbor, IWasi, Kim, Kinchev, Auktyon... It is definitely a place to look at. Check the URL URL: http://anxiety-closet.mit.edu:8001/activities/russian-club/catalog.html Lyle Neff's home page contains very interesting materials on Russian classical music, in particular, on Cui, Rimsky-Korsakov and Prokofiev, and links to other places, including Shostakovich and Schnittke pages. The URL is URL: http://copper.ucs.indiana.edu/~lneff/russmus/russmus.html Yuri Naumov's home page (those who know, need no clue, those who don't, don't deserve a clue): URL: http://www.interport.net/~yuriblus/ 4.10 RUSSIAN LITERATURE ON WWW A good starting point is Simon Hawkin's page - URL URL: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cema/russia.html An excellent collection of prose, poetry, Russian news on line and so on is presented at URL: http://iaiwww.uni-muenster.de/cgi-bin/simplex/lat/lit.html (use Netscape 2 or other frame-capable browser) Hilarious net-generated KOI8 poetry and parodies of Pavel Afanasiev are at URL: http://www.best.com:80/~mif/ The Mit'ki group prose, poetry and art are at Egor Alekseyev's page URL: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~yegor/mitki/ Vladimir Smirnov's collection of lyrics of M.Scherbakov is at URL: http://128.100.80.13/vladimir/scherbakov/ Other worthwhile places (among many) are: URL: http://sunsite.oit.unc.edu/sergei/Literature/Literature.html (Naoumov's collection) URL: http://www.online.ru/sp/eel/russian/ (Eugene Peskin's selection of Russian classics: Esenin, Pushkin, Turgenev, Chekhov) URL: http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/staff/stephy/Pushkin.html (Stephany Gould's Pushkin Page) URL: http://www.cs.umn.edu/`safonov/brodsky/ (Alex Safonov's Brodsky homepage - KOI8, English, translit.) URL: http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/personal/pmyjaw/ (a nice F.M. Dostoevsky page in Britain) More will be added soon. 4.11 RUSSIAN COOKBOOK It's somewhere on the definitely noteworthy Eastern Siberia homepage... Or isn't it? 4.12 PARLIAMENTARY AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN RUSSIA Dmitri Gusev has done a very nice job in setting up and maintaining the following HTML documents: Russian Presidential Elections-96, URL URL: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/dmiguse/Russian/elections.html Portraits of Russian and Soviet political leaders, URL URL: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/dmiguse/Russian/gallery.html More election information (KOI8) can be found at the URL URL: http://www.fe.msk.ru/elect/ewelcome.html 4.13 RUSSIAN FOOTBALL (I mean FOOTBALL, not some American thing) Thanks to Oxana Smirnova, Russian football fans now can enjoy the national championship and the Cup updates and even participate in polls to determine the best player at URL URL: http://www.quark.lu.se/~oxana/football.html 4.14 ROLE-PLAYING GAMES IN RUSSIA Check it out! URL: http://members.aol.com/mirdain/golden/mainrus.html That's it for now, folks. Feel free to quote this FAQ, provided that you DO mention the source of the quote. And, of course, all additions and suggestions welcome. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB0AwUBMgVOCoGFfGJmeuwpAQE2zAL43+EAAPClgu2X9KE2trRI7ALlWTtJbu5a H0cE9Vn/Yz12pepRZgp67YIQmZ08PXHDs6ThSJSw/1b/F+0JKxyl9ExhjWXUjVaE 3JOu88MRzhESMVgOUAugGbXkGI9U9C4= =8Mxl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- There is no me but me, and pv02@lehigh.edu and kalmoth@rt66.com are my only true addresses. All my articles are PGP-signed. My PGP public key is at URL: http://www.lehigh.edu/~pv02/pgpkey.txt