Russian

• Alternate names: Russki Also: in China -- Eluosi, Olossu, Russ, Russki; in Israel -- Russit, Russki; in Mongolia -- Russki; in United States -- Russki
• Scriptures published: Bible (1680--2011) New Testament (1821--1991) Portions (1815--1993)
• Literacy: No information available.
• Primary country: Russian Federation
• Also used in: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Republic of Moldova, Mongolia, Mozambique, Norway, Paraguay, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Sweden, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan
• Religion: Christian
• Status: De facto national working language in Azerbaijan; De facto national working language in Belarus; De facto national working language in Estonia; De facto national working language in Georgia; Statutory national language in Kazakhstan; Statutory national language in Kyrgyzstan; De facto national working language in Latvia; De facto national working language in Moldova; Statutory national language in Russian Federation; De facto national working language in Tajikistan; Statutory national working language in Ukraine; De facto national working language in Uzbekistan
• Number of users: 161,727,650 (137,000,000; 2,940 in China (Shearer and Sun 2002); 750,000 in Israel (1999 H. Mutzafi); 4,000 in Mongolia (Johnstone 1993); 882,000)

(data from Ethnologue and other sources)

Scripture

• Faith Comes by Hearing:
• Watch The JESUS Film in Russian
• Forum of Bible Agencies International: Find a Bible in Russian
• World Bibles: all known Scripture available in Russian on the web
• Joshua Project: Russian — facts and resources

Other

• ScriptSource: writing systems of the world
• Ethnologue entry for Russian — detailed linguistic information.