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

The Old East Slavic Corpus has reached a size of 913,000 words. It has been expanded with several additional literary and administrative texts, as well as a new collection of selected extratexts of East Slavic manuscripts. These span from refined passages about the book’s patron and its making to down-to-earth marginalia. Such texts are of great value for the study of both language history and cultural context. The extratexts have been given based on the most up-to-date scholarly publications (by Vadim Krys'ko, Maria Galchenko, Alexei Gippius, Savva Mikheev, and others) and, where possible, cross-checked against digital copies of the original manuscripts. The number of tokens with fully annotated Greek correspondences has reached 237,000.

The National Corpus of Russian Language has opened a public API for researchers, developers, and teachers. It allows you to perform search queries to the Word at a glance and lexical-grammatical search programmatically and receive results in Concordance format.

Getting started is easy: log in to the website, get an access key, and review the sample queries in the documentation.

The terms of use for data retrieved via the API are the same as the standard terms of use for the Corpus.

We continue to develop the functionality of the corpus for teaching Russian in schools. Eight new rules have been added to the Practice Example Generator:

• Spelling of vowels in nominal suffixes
• Spelling of vowels in verbal suffixes
• Alternation of vowels with zero
• Double role of the letters Е, Ё, Ю, Я
• Spelling of the soft sign within words
• Differentiating between hard and soft signs
• Conjugation of verbs with unstressed personal endings
• Spelling of unstressed endings of nouns in the singular

Users can now select examples for eleven spelling rules from two corpora: Educational and “From 2 to 15.” You can access the generator page from the RNC for school page by clicking on the corresponding banner.