English words from Russian
- ZhdanovshchinaThe ideological repression of artists and intellectuals in the Soviet Union during the 1940s and 1950s.
- ZhetysuA region of eastern Kazakhstan
- ZhitkurA former town in Kapustin Yar, Kapustinoyarsky Selsoviet, Akhtubinsky district, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia; that was demolished to create the Kapustin Yar military reservation.
- zhretsSlavic pagan priest
- zhritsaSlavic pagan priestess
- zilantA winged snake- or dragon-like creature in the mythology of the Russian, Tatar, Chuvash and Mari peoples around Kazan.
- zindanan improvised prison cell consisting of a hole in the ground covered with a metal grille or grate.
- ZmiyevkaA settlement in Vysokinsky selsoviet, Bashmakovsky Raion, Penza Oblast, Volga Federal District, Russia, founded as a khutor during the time of the Stolypin agrarian reforms (1906–1914).
- ZmiyovkaAn urban-type settlement and urban settlement, the administrative centre of Sverdlovsky Raion, Oryol Oblast, Central Federal District, Russia, first mentioned in 1868.
- ZnamennyA kind of melismatic liturgical chant used in the Russian Eastern Orthodox Church.
- ZnamenskA city, a closed town, a former secret city in Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia
- zokorAny Asiatic burrowing rodent native to Central Asia, in the genera Myospalax and Eospalax.
- zolotnikAn old Russian unit of weight, equal to 1/96 of a pound or approximately 4.2658 grams.
- ZubatovshchinaThe creation of police-run trade unions in an attempt to compromise the labour movement.
- ZyrianA member of the Komi people.
- ЯUsed to represent R in Russian contexts.