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 Dialect Corpus has been expanded with large new collections of Vyatka and Voronezh texts, along with other materials. The update adds 124,000 tokens and more than 16 hours of audio recordings. The corpus now also supports searching for several new grammatical features, including dialectal perfect (у меня не плачено долг) and pluperfect (наши туды были уехали), pluralia tantum, and toponyms (с Воронежа).

We continue to develop the functionality of the corpus for teaching Russian in schools. Five new rules related to vowel alternation in the root have been added to the Practice Example Generator:

• The letters А and О in root -лаг-/ -лож-
• The letters А and О in root -гар-/-гор-
• The letters А and О in root -раст-/-рос-/-ращ-
• The letters А and О in root -клан-/-клон-
• The letters А and О in root -скак-/-скоч-

You can access the generator page from the RNC for school page by clicking on the corresponding banner.

The English-Russian MultiPARC has been expanded to nearly 253,000 tokens. The addition includes two versions of Anton Chekhov’s play The Cherry Orchard.

The Russian version is a 1983 television production by the State Academic Maly Theatre of the USSR, directed by Igor Ilyinsky. The English version is the 1981 BBC television film The Cherry Orchard, directed by Richard Eyre.

The English version was transcribed at Moscow State Linguistic University. We extend our gratitude to Professor Olga Iriskhanova, Vice-Rector for Research at MSLU, and to Andrey Petrov, research fellow at the SKoDis Center, for their valuable contribution.