RNC News

The Main Corpus of the Russian National Corpus has grown by 36,7 million words and has reached a total size of 424 million tokens. The update includes works of 21st-century Russian prose in a wide range of literary trends and genres (novels, novellas, short stories, and essays), as well as new batches of journal publications featuring both fiction and “thick-journal” nonfiction: reviews, articles, memoirs, and other genres. Around 100 new works of children’s fiction have also been added.

At the same time, the educational and scholarly segment has been expanded: the corpus now includes additional reference and encyclopedic texts, including materials aimed at school and teenage audiences.

Drama has been updated separately: the new collection contains nearly 200 plays spanning a broad historical range and diverse theatrical forms, from the 18th century to the present day. In addition, more than 80 plays already included in the corpus have been annotated to distinguish speakers’ lines and stage directions.

The update also fills gaps related to a number of authors and texts of the 19th–20th centuries (fiction, memoirs, philosophy, and early translations).