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Russian Library Guide

A guide to select article databases, library resources, links, and tips for researchers to succeed in finding, accessing, and managing quality information sources.

Call Number Ranges

Browse the library stacks like a professional librarian. Howard-Tilton Memorial Library organizes its collection on each floor according to the Library of Congress (LC) classification system. The LC call number range for materials relating to Russia are:

History

DJK1-77 History of Eastern Europe (General)

DK1-949.5 History of Russia, Soviet Union & Former Russian Republics

Languages and Literature

PG1-9665 Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Languages and Literature

PG2001-2826 Russian Language

PG2830-2847 Belarusian 

PG2900-(3698) Russian literature 

PG2900-3190 History and criticism

PG2900-2998 General
PG3001-3026 Special periods
PG3041-3065 Poetry
PG3071-3089 Drama
PG3091-3099 Prose
PG(3100)-(3155) Folk literature, Including texts

PG3199-3299 Collections 

PG3199-3205 General 
PG(3211)-3219 Translations 
PG3223-3229.2 Special periods 
PG3230-3238 Poetry 
PG3240-3255 Drama 
PG3260-3299 Prose 

PG3300-3493.96 Individual authors and works 

PG3300-3308 Early to 1700 
PG3310-3319 18th century 

PG3312 Derzhavin 
PG3314 Karamzin 
PG3316 Lomonosov 
PG3318 Sumarokov 

PG3320-3447 1800-1870 

PG3325-3328 Dostoyevsky 
PG3332-3335 Gogol' 
PG3340-3359 Pushkin 
PG3365-3417 Tolstoi 
PG3420-3445 Turgenev 

PG3450-3470 1870-1917 

PG3452 Andreev 
PG3455-3458 Chekhov 
PG3462-3465 Gorky 

PG3475-3476 1917-1960 
PG3477-3490 1961-2000 
PG3491.2-3493.96 2001-

PG3500-3505 Provincial, local, etc.

PG3515-3550 Outside the Russian Federation 
PG(3651)-(3698) Special subjects 

PG3801-3987 Ukrainian
PG3990 Carpatho-Rusyn
PG4001-5146 Czech
PG5201-5546 Slovak
PG5631-5689 Sorbian (Wendic)
PG6001-7446 Polish
PG7900-7925 Lechitic dialects

PG8001-9146 Baltic

PG8201-8208 Old Prussian
PG8501-8772 Lithuanian
PG8801-9146 Latvian

PG9501-9665 Albanian

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