English words from Russian
- Russian White HouseThe primary government building of the Russian Federation, located in Moscow, also housing the Office of the Prime Minister of Russia.
- selsovietA rural council, a level of administration in the Soviet Union and (some federal subjects of) modern Russia.
- Sergiyev PosadA pilgrimage town of 110,000 people in Moscow oblast
- Severnaya ZemlyaAn archipelago in the Arctic Ocean in the north of Russia, Krasnoyarsk krai, off Taymyr Peninsula.
- SeverodonetskSynonym of Sievierodonetsk.
- shahidkaA female shaheed.
- sharashkaA secret research and development laboratory in the Soviet gulag.
- shkalikAn old Russian liquid measure, equal to 61.5 millilitres.
- shkatulkaliteA monoclinic mineral containing calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, manganese, niobium, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.
- shtofAn old Russian liquid measure, equal to 1.23 litres.
- SibiridA member of the Mongoloid race according to Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, found among indigenous Siberians in North Asia.
- silovikA member of the Russian military, law enforcement, or intelligence services (the KGB or FSB), or a politician with a background in such services.
- skazA literary technique wherein characters are mainly identified by the linguistic specificities of their speech.
- SkoptsyAn underground religious movement in Russia, known for practising castration and mastectomy in accordance with their teachings. The movement was active to the mid 20th century.
- SlaviThe Russian Orthodox Christmas, which is celebrated from January 6 through 13 in outstate Alaska, USA, wherever there is a sizable Russian Orthodox population.
- SocolofA surname.
- SorokineA surname.
- SorokinianOf or relating to Pitirim Sorokin (1889–1968), Russian-American sociologist.
- SovetskA city in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia; formerly, Tilsit.
- starshinaA sergeant major in Russia.
- StepanoffA transliteration of the Russian surname Степанов (Stepanov).
- StribogThe god of the winds, air and sky in Slavic mythology.
- StudenkinA transliteration of the Russian surname Студенкин (Studenkin).
- SvetovidThe chief god of the Slavic tribe of Rani and the Polabian Slavs, ruling over war, fertility, and prosperity.
- taimenA species of salmon (Hucho taimen), living in Siberia.
- takirA type of relief, a dry fissured crust primarily formed by filamentous cyanobacteria, occurring in the deserts of Central Asia, and similar to a salt flat.
- TamerlanA male given name from Russian or Chechen.
- tandemocracySynonym of diarchy, especially involving alternation of offices in an allegedly democratic context.
- tankistSynonym of tanker (“operator of a military tank”).
- tapochkiRussian house slippers.
- tarantassA low horse-drawn carriage without springs used in Russia, capable of having its wheels replaced with runners during the winter.
- TarnovskyA surname from Russian.
- telegaA simple four-wheeled Russian cart without springs.
- telnyashkaA white undershirt with horizontal stripes, sometimes sleeveless, worn as part of a Russian military uniform.
- trepakA traditional brisk Russian and Ukrainian folk dance.
- TsarnaevA surname.
- UdodA transliteration of the Russian surname Удод (Udod).
- UkrainianizeTo render Ukrainian in character; impose Ukrainian culture, language, or ethnic identity.
- Ukrainian Soviet Socialist RepublicThe Bolshevik state of Ukraine (1919–91), a constituent republic of the Soviet Union (1922–91), member of the United Nations since 1945.
- urkaA common criminal in Russia.
- UshkoffA transliteration of the Russian surname Ушков (Uškov).
- VainakhiaA historical region of the northern Caucasus of Russia.
- valenkiTraditional Russian felt boots.
- valenokA traditional Russian felt boot.
- varenyeA kind of sweet fruit preserve.
- VinogradoffA surname from Russian.
- vityazA Russian noble knight who rode a horse.
- VladimiroffA transliteration of the Bulgarian surname Владимиров (Vladimirov).
- voblaA Caspian roach (Rutilus caspicus), formerly considered a subspecies of the common roach.
- voiskoA self-governing administrative community of Cossacks in the Russian Empire.
- VorobeiA transliteration of the Russian surname Воробей (Vorobej).
- VorobejA transliteration of the Russian surname Воробей (Vorobej).
- VorontsoffA transliteration of the Russian surname Воронцов (Voroncov).
- Vosem chartA three-dimensional chart that graphs the political spectrum, mapping cultural issues on one axis, fiscal issues on another axis, and corporate issues on a third axis, with the endpoints representing eight different ideologies.
- WorobeyA surname from East Slavic.
- YastrebovA transliteration of the Russian surname Ястребов (Jastrebov).
- YeremeiA transliteration of the Russian male given name Ереме́й (Jereméj).
- yeryA letter of the Cyrillic alphabet: ы (y), now usually simply called "ы"
- yoficationThe act of replacing the letter е (je) with ё (jo) in Russian text.
- yuftRussia leather.
- zampolitA deputy commander for political affairs in the Soviet Union.
- zemstvoA Russian district or provincial council, or elective local-governmental administrative division, founded in 1864 by Tsar Alexander the Liberator.
- ZeyaA river in southeastern Russia, a tributary of the Amur.
- ZhezkazganA city, the administrative centre of the Ulytau Region, Kazakhstan.
- zvenoA small grassroots work-group within Soviet collective farms.