The Russian National Corpus is a representative collection of texts in Russian, counting more than 2 bln tokens and completed with linguistic annotation and search tools

By tradition, on the last working day of the year the RNC team sums up the results and reflects on what new features have appeared in the Corpus.

In 2025, the Corpus grew by more than 47 million words. The capabilities of a number of subcorpora were expanded - from historical corpora to the Dialect and Syntactic corpora. Neural-network-based annotation of lemmas and morphology was significantly improved in the Main, Media, Educational corpora, the “Russian classics” and the “From 2 to 15” corpora. Researchers, developers, and teachers now have access to a public API that makes it possible to run search queries programmatically.

The Corpus also continued to develop as a tool for a broad audience - a new service, the “Practice Example Generator”, was launched, along with several new widgets in the Word at a Glance.

We have collected in the image the new features and improvements introduced over the past year that will make your work with the Corpus even more productive and enjoyable. May the New Year bring you many interesting finds and discoveries!

With best wishes for the New Year,
The Russian National Corpus Team

We continue to enhance the corpus functionality for teaching Russian in schools. The Practice Example Generator has been updated with five new rules:

• The use of И, У, А, Ю after sibilant consonants
• The use of Ы and И after Ц
• Declension of nouns
• Gender of nouns
• Spelling of verb endings: -тся vs -ться

You can access the Example Generator page from the RNC for School section by clicking on the corresponding banner.

The Russian MultiPARC has reached 375,000 word forms. Anton Chekhov’s play Three Sisters has been added in two theatrical productions — by the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre and the Youth Theatre on the Fontanka.

A new section has been introduced within the corpus: prose readings performed by professional actors and narrators. This collection includes various performance versions of readings of novellas by Alexander Pushkin and short stories by Alexander Kuprin and Mikhail Zoshchenko.