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• Improving the coverage of Russia's languages and literature on Wikipedia
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2. {{User|Greyhood}} (Linguistics of Russian language, Russian linguists, Mikhail Bulgakov, Soviet-era travel and adventure novels)
3. {{User|nafpaktitism}}
4. {{User|Yann}} (Tolstoy, Dostoievsky)
5. {{User|Russavia}}
6. {{User|Tomcat7}}
7. {{User|SobakaKachalova}}
8. {{User|DENAMAX}} Maxim Stoyalov

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;Requested articles

• see Talk:List of Russian language writers
• see Talk:List of Russian language poets
• Russian world (concept) - see :ru:Русский мир (фонд)

;Expansion needed

• Russian culture
• Culture of ancient Rus
• Russian literature
• List of Russian language writers
• List of Russian language novelists
• List of Russian language playwrights
• List of Russian language poets
• List of Russian linguists and philologists
• Slavic studies
• Russian humour
• Russian science fiction and fantasy

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• Russian State Library
• Russian Language Institute
• List of English words of Russian origin (add images)
• Pushkin Prize
• Khudozhestvennaya Literatura
• Literaturnaya Gazeta

;Attention needed

• Russian Navy Code of Signals
• Russian Morse code

;Expansion needed

• Languages of Asia
• Aghul language (expand the empty sections)
• Akhvakh language (expand the empty sections)
• Buryat language
• Erzya language
• Khanty language
• Mordvinic languages
• Nenets languages
• Old Permic script
• Paleosiberian languages
• Russenorsk
• Tenevil

;Attention needed

• Andic languages (deal with tags, expand)
• Avar language (deal with tags, more images)
• East Slavic languages (clean-up, add some images)
• Finno-Ugric languages (clean-up, managing images needed)
• Ural-Altaic languages (clean-up, add some images)
• Ukrainian language, Surzhyk (clean-up, check neutrality, more about the history)
• North Slavic languages
• Mongolian language - add more info on the wider usage of the term
• Komi Cyrillic alphabet
• Solombala-English (de-orphan)

;Expansion needed

• History of the Russian language (add images)
• History of the Russian language in Ukraine *(check neutrality and referencing)
• Pre-Christian Slavic writing
• Ostromir Gospels
• Old Church Slavonic and Church Slavonic language (add more information about their relation to Russia)
• Vyaz (Cyrillic calligraphy)
• Cyrillic numerals
• Southern Russian dialects, Central Russian dialects, Northern Russian dialects, Old Novgorod dialect, Pomor dialects
• Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language (Ushakov)
• Runglish
• Russian dialects
• Russianism

;Attention needed

• Russian language (clean-up, provide citations)
• Russian language in Ukraine
• Russian phonology
• Slavic languages
• Proto-Slavic language
• Slavic names
• Rus (name) (add images, check neutrality, consider a separate article Etymology of Russia)
• Cyrillic alphabet and its letters: A (Cyrillic), Be (Cyrillic), Ve (Cyrillic), etc.
• Romanization of Russian (add more images, clean-up)
• Soft sign, Yer
• Balachka (clean-up, managing images needed)
• Mat (Russian profanity)

;Expansion needed

• Vladimir Dal
• Alexey Andreyevich Khovansky, The Khovansky Foundation
• Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay (expand)
• Mikołaj Kruszewski (add portrait)
• Alexander Vostokov
• Aleksey Shakhmatov
• Alexander Veselovsky
• Nikolai Trubetzkoy
• Dmitry Ushakov
• Lev Shcherba and Glokaya kuzdra
• Viktor Vinogradov
• Sergey Ozhegov
• Natalia Shvedova
• Roman Jakobson
• Mikhail Bakhtin (add more images)
• Epic and Novel
• Yuri Lotman
• Viktor Zhirmunsky
• Irakly Andronikov
• Dietmar Rosenthal
• Dmitry Likhachov
• Sergei Anatolyevich Starostin
• Max Vasmer

;Attention needed

• Leopold Arends
• Nicholas Marr
• George Shevelov
• Anna Polivanova

;Requested articles

• The Sea King and Vasilisa the Wise (see Russian Fairy Tales)

;Expansion needed

• Folklore of Russia
• Boyan (bard)
• Bylina
• Bogatyr
• Svyatogor
• Ilya Muromets
• Dobrynya Nikitich
• Alyosha Popovich
• Nightingale the Robber
• Sadko
• Sword Kladenets
• Magic carpet
• Alexander Afanasyev, folklorist who recorded and published over 600 Russian fairytales, by far the largest folktale collection by any one man in the world (expand, translate more from ru-wiki)
• Russian Fairy Tales (expand, add more tales)
• The Princess Who Never Smiled (clean-up, provide references)
• The Bold Knight, the Apples of Youth, and the Water of Life (clean-up, provide references)
• Go I Know Not Whither and Fetch I Know Not What (clean-up, provide references)
• The Giant Turnip (translate more and add images from ru-wiki)
• Ivan Tsarevich
• Skazka (expand, add more tales from different authors)
• Chastushka
• Russian sayings and Russian proverbs (merge?)
• Kudeyar
• Russian jokes (deal with tags, more images)
• Russian political jokes (more images)
• Poruchik (add more about Poruchik Rzhevsky (see Russian jokes))
• New Russian (add more jokes)

;Attention needed

• Ah Vy, Seni, Moi Seni
• The Song of the Volga Boatmen
• Yeruslan Lazarevich (add image from ru-wiki)

;Expansion needed

• Birch bark document (expand, add more images)
• The Tale of Igor's Campaign (add more images, clean-up)
• Daniel Kievsky
• Symeon of Polotsk

;Expansion needed

• Antiochus Kantemir
• Mikhail Kheraskov
• Natalia Sheremeteva
• Vasily Trediakovsky
• Alexander Sumarokov
• Ivan Khemnitser
• Denis Fonvizin
• Alexander Radishchev
• Vasily Kapnist
• Nikolai Nikolev
• Gavrila Derzhavin
• Derzhavin's ode to God
• Vasily Levshin

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;Requested articles

• List of works by Alexander Pushkin (see :Template:Alexander Pushkin)
• List of works by Mikhail Lermontov (see :Template talk:Mikhail Lermontov)
• Hussar poetry (see Denis Davydov)
• Romanticism in Russia
• Narodnost

;Expansion needed

• Golden Age of Russian Poetry
• Ivan Dmitriev
• All Russian Pushkin Museum
• Natalia Pushkina
• Ruslan and Ludmila
• The Moor of Peter the Great (add more images)
• The Bronze Horseman (poem)
• The Captain's Daughter
• The Blizzard (add images)
• Anna Petrovna Kern
• Nikolay Karamzin
• Dmitry Khvostov (poet)
• Aleksandr Griboyedov (expand)
• Yevgeny Baratynsky
• Lyubomudry (expand)
• Vladimir Odoevsky (expand)
• Alexander Shishkov (expand)
• Ivan Kotlyarevsky (expand)
• Alexander Odoevsky
• Lovers of the Russian Word
• Anton Delvig
• Fyodor Glinka
• Sergey Glinka
• Nikolay Gretsch
• Pyotr Pletnyov
• Ivan Krylov
• Faddey Bulgarin
• Vasily Zhukovsky
• Denis Davydov
• Nikolai Gogol (clean-up)
• Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
• Christmas Eve (Gogol)
• May Night, or the Drowned Maiden
• Marriage (play)
• The Government Inspector (add images)
• Taras Shevchenko (check neutrality, clean-up)
• Romanticism and Romantic poetry (more on romantisism in Russia, assess the article with national WikiProjects)
• Eugene Onegin (more images)
• Dubrovsky
• The Queen of Spades (story) (expand, more images)
• All Russian Pushkin Museum
• Mikhail Lermontov
• A Hero of Our Time, the main novel of Mikhail Lermontov (clean-up, provide references and more images)
• Ashik Kerib
• Borodino (poem)
• Masquerade (play)
• Mikhail Zagoskin
• Fyodor Tyutchev
• Yulia Zhadovskaya
• Nestor Kukolnik
• Apollon Maykov
• Yakov Polonsky
• Sergey Aksakov
• Ivan Lazhechnikov

;Attention needed

• Poltava (poem) (add images)
• Konstantin Batyushkov (more images, clean-up)
• Vissarion Belinsky (clean-up, add more images, check neutrality)
• Yevdokiya Rostopchina
• Nevsky Prospekt (story)
• Karolina Pavlova

;Requested articles

• List of works by Ivan Turgenev (see :Template:Ivan Turgenev)

;Expansion needed

• Ideological realism
• Superfluous man
• Who is to Blame?
• Vasily Narezhny
• Ivan Timofeevich Kokorev
• Nikolay Nekrasov
• Aleksey Pleshcheyev
• Ivan Savvich Nikitin
• Ivan Aksakov (expand, translate more from ru-wiki)
• Slavophile (expand, add images, consider move)
• Russkaya Starina (expand, translate more from ru-wiki)
• Sovremennik
• Nikolay Ogarev
• Ivan Turgenev
• Home of the Gentry
• On the Eve
• Aleksey Apukhtin
• Afanasy Fet
• Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
• History of the Russian State from Gostomysl to Timashev (add images)
• Aleksey Koltsov
• Dmitry Pisarev
• Ivan Goncharov
• Oblomov
• Alexander Ostrovsky
• Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
• Nikolay Chernyshevsky
• Nikolai Leskov
• The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea
• The Enchanted Wanderer
• Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (novel)
• Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak
• Pavel Ivanovich Melnikov
• Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky
• Konstantin Staniukovich
• Mikhail Artsybashev
• Yekaterina Sheremeteva
• L. Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky (expand, translate more from ru-wiki)
• The Idiot
• Kozma Prutkov
• Tolstoyan movement
• Vladimir Chertkov

;Attention needed

• Fathers and Sons(add images, deal with tags)
• Leo Tolstoy (expand intro, managing images is needed)
• War and Peace (clean-up, add more images, provide citations)
• Natasha Rostova (expand)
• Hadji Murat (novel)(add images, deal with tags)
• The Cossacks (novel)
• Anna Karenina (deal with tags, more images)
• The Kreutzer Sonata (deal with tags)
• Youth (Leo Tolstoy novel) (expand)
• Resurrection (novel) (expand)
• Valentin Bulgakov (deal with tags)
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky (clean-up, check neutrality)
• Crime and Punishment (more images)
• Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov (add images)
• The Brothers Karamazov (expand intro, add more images)
• The Idiot
• Prince Myshkin
• Nikolay Strakhov (add references)
• Nikolay Mikhaylovsky
• Grigori Machtet
• What Is to Be Done? (novel)

;Requested articles

• see Template:Sergei Yesenin

;Expansion needed

• Russian symbolism
• Silver Age of Russian Poetry
• Valery Bryusov
• Vesy
• Ego-Futurism and Igor Severyanin
• Acmeist poetry
• Akhmatova's Orphans (expand, translate more from ru-wiki)
• Konstantin Balmont
• Innokenty Annensky
• Velimir Khlebnikov
• Maximilian Voloshin
• Semyon Nadson
• Vasily Kamensky
• Andrei Bely
• Leonid Kannegisser
• Alexander Blok
• David Burliuk
• Sergei Yesenin
• Leonid Andreyev
• Nikolay Gumilev
• Osip Mandelstam
• Ivan Bunin
• Boris Zaytsev (writer)
• Vladimir Gilyarovsky
• Vladislav Khodasevich
• Aleksei Kruchenykh
• Nikolai Minsky
• Vladimir Narbut

;Attention needed

• Lesya Ukrainka
• Ivan Franko
• Anton Chekhov (expand intro, managing images is needed)
• Anton Chekhov bibliography (add more images)
• List of short stories by Anton Chekhov
• The Cherry Orchard
• Ivanov (play) (add images)
• A Marriage Proposal (add images)
• Platonov (play)
• The Lady with the Dog (add images)
• Osip Dymov (considser move to the story name)
• The Black Monk (short story) (expand)
• Chekhov's gun (deal with tags, add image)
• Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik
• Zinaida Gippius (add more images from ru-wiki)
• Dmitry Merezhkovsky (add more images from ru-wiki and Commons)
• Vladimir Korolenko (check neutrality)
• Vladimir Nabokov (add portrait and more images, clean-up)
• Anna Akhmatova (check neutrality, add more images)
• Mark Aldanov (clean-up needed)
• A Matter of Chance

;Requested articles

• Dmitry Balashov (see :ru:Балашов, Дмитрий Михайлович)

;Expansion needed

• USSR Union of Writers
• Maxim Gorky Literature Institute
• Vladimir Obruchev
• Stalin's poetry
• Demyan Bedny
• Dmitry Furmanov
• Arkady Kots
• Vladimir Mayakovsky
• Yevgeny Zamyatin
• Alexander Grin
• Nikolai Aseev
• Oberiu (consider move)
• Imaginism
• Anatoly Marienhof
• Vsevolod Ivanov
• Boris Lavrenyov
• Alexander Serafimovich (check neutrality, clean-up, more about Sholokhov)
• Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (more about literary works)
• Aelita (novel)
• Agniya Barto
• Mikhail Prishvin
• Mikhail Bulgakov
• Mikhail Bulgakov bibliography (add images)
• Heart of a Dog (check neutrality, add more images)
• The White Guard
• The Master and Margarita (clean-up, add more images)
• The Fatal Eggs (add images)
• Flight (play)
• Theatrical Novel (clean-up, add images)
• Ilf and Petrov
• Ilya Ilf (expand)
• Yevgeny Petrov (writer) (expand)
• The Twelve Chairs (expand)
• The Little Golden Calf (expand)
• Ostap Bender (expand)
• Platon Oyunsky (expand)
• Salchak Toka
• Arkady Gaidar (expand)
• Timurite movement
• Mikhail Sholokhov
• Boris Kornilov (expand)
• Nikolai Shpanov (expand)
• Lazar Lagin (expand)
• Alexander Melentyevich Volkov
• The Wizard of the Emerald City
• Vitali Gubarev
• Alexander Belyayev (expand)
• Pavel Bazhov (expand)
• Olga Bergholz (expand)
• Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev (expand, check neutrality)
• Gabriel El-Registan (expand)
• Korney Chukovsky (expand)
• Konstantin Paustovsky
• Lev Kassil
• Doctor Aybolit
• Boris Polevoy
• Marietta Shaginyan (expand)
• Mikhail Zoshchenko (expand)
• Samuil Marshak (add more works and images)
• Boris Zakhoder
• Nikolay Zabolotsky
• Mikhail Isakovsky
• Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov (add portrait, check neutrality)
• Yury Tynyanov (translate more from ru-wiki, add more images)
• Veniamin Kaverin
• The Two Captains
• War generation of Russian poets
• David Samoylov
• Semyon Gudzenko
• Semyon Kirsanov
• Boris Pasternak
• Rasul Gamzatov
• Nikolay Rubtsov (translate more from ru-wiki)
• Semyon Kirsanov (translate more from ru-wiki, add portrait)
• Ivan Yefremov
• Valentin Kataev (translate more from ru-wiki, check neutrality)
• Chinghiz Aitmatov
• Robert Rozhdestvensky
• Andrei Voznesensky
• Aleksandr Tvardovsky
• Yulian Semyonov
• Nikolay Nosov
• Dunno
• Valentin Pikul
• Joseph Brodsky (check neutrality, add more images)
• Sergey Mikhalkov
• Cheburashka (add fair use images)
• Moscow-Petushki (check neutrality, provide citations)
• Sergey Snegov
• Kir Bulychev
• Alexander Kazantsev
• World Soul (novel)
• Eduard Uspensky
• Prostokvashino (village)
• Three from Buttermilk Village
• Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
• Noon Universe
• Progressor
• The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
• Grigoriy Oster
• Friedrich Neznansky

;Attention needed

• Serapion Brothers (add more images)
• Maxim Gorky
• Suleyman Stalsky
• And Quiet Flows the Don (check neutrality, clean-up, more images)
• Isaak Babel (check neutrality)
• Nikolay Oleynikov (check neutrality)
• Nikolai Ostrovsky (add more images from ru-wiki)
• Magomet Mamakaev
• Kuzebay Gerd
• Akim Samar
• Marina Tsvetaeva (check neutrality)
• Andrei Platonov (check neutrality, clean-up, more images)
• Ilya Ehrenburg (check neutrality)
• Vladimir Makanin (deal with tags)
• Yury Kazakov (deal with tags)
• Yury Olesha (deal with tags)
• Doctor Zhivago (deal with tags)
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (check neutrality)
• Varlam Shalamov (check neutrality)
• Vera Panova (check neutrality)
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko' (expand intro, add more images, clean-up)
• Irina Ratushinskaya (check neutrality, add references)
• Vasily Aksyonov (deal with tags)
• Anatoly Aleksin (clean-up, provide citations)
• Anatoly Rybakov (check neutrality)
• Yuri Rytkheu (add portrait)
• Lydia Chukovskaya (check neutrality)
• Georgy Demidov (check neutrality)
• Yevgenia Ginzburg
• Lev Kopelev
• Vladimir Karpov
• Boris Slutsky

;Requested articles

• {{ill|Mikhael Idov|ru|Идов, Михаил}} (sometimes spelled Michail), writer known for Londongrad (TV series), former editor-in-chief for GQ in Russia, often quoted as commentator

;Expansion needed

• Union of Russian Writers
• Russian postmodernism
• Metro 2033 (book), Metro 2034 (novel) (see also Metro 2033 game), Dmitry Glukhovsky, Universe of Metro 2033
• Yuri Nikitin (author)
• Vasily Zvyagintsev
• Alexandra Marinina
• List of World of Watches characters (add images)
• Svyatoslav Loginov

;Attention needed

• Boris Akunin (clean-up, deal with tags)
• Marusya Klimova (clean-up, deal with tags)
• Yevgeni Grishkovetz (clean-up, deal with tags)
• Dmitri Lipskerov
• Eduard Limonov
• Paulina Zherebtsova (clean-up, deal with tags)
• Dmitri Yemets, Tanya Grotter

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