Current Announcements (last updated January 11, 2025)

• For instructors' Zoom links, office hours, current schedule, and similar information, please see Rooms and times on the left.
• For all courses marked TBA in Cornell Roster and in our schedule on this website, see Organizational meeting below.
• Organizational meeting for all Spring 2025 courses marked TBA will be held at 6:00 pm on Wednesday January 22, in Room KG42 Klarman Hall. Please come on time and bring your schedule. This meeting might also help if you're not sure which course is right for you. (Note: a similar meeting for UKRAN courses is at 4:45 pm, same room, same day. Visit https://ukrainian.as.cornell.edu for more.)
• Placement Test / CASE in Russian: Read section Heritage/native speakers under Courses. If you find a course that is clearly right for you, go ahead and enroll in it. If you are not sure, or if you want credit for knowing or learning Russian before Cornell, come to room K211 Klarman Hall, the office of Slava Paperno (sp27@cornell.edu) and Krystyna Golovakova, to take a Placement (aka CASE) test on Monday January 20 at 2:00 pm. No preparation is necessary: this is not a numerical quiz, it is pretty informal, but you will have to write half a page of text in Russian.
• Russian Conversation Hour at LRC: Cornell's Language Resource Center organizes informal meetings for students of various languages to get together and speak the language with no particular curriculum (and no homework!).
• Russian Minor is offered in the Department of Comparative Literature. See details under Russian minor (link on the left on this website).
• Free on-campus tutoring at LSC (also LRC)
• Ukrainian at Cornell. Several courses for those interested in Ukraine are available this semester on campus, in person, see https://ukrainian.as.cornell.edu. Other full-length Ukrainian language courses can be taken by Cornell students in distance-learning mode at Columbia University, see the Class Roster. Questions? Please write to Krystyna Golovakova at kg463@cornell.edu.
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• Scholarships, study abroad, etc.:
  • February 15 is the application deadline for our Michael Harum Award. It applies to studying Russian in countries other than Russia, such as Latvia and Kyrgystan. See Study in Russia (and elsewhere outside the US) for the link.
  • The AATSEEL site under Outside resources always has relevant information on internships, graduate studies, and studying Russian abroad.