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- ADAPTOGENAny natural herbal substance, such as ginseng, that is purported to assist the body to adapt to stress, and to exert a normalizing effect upon body functions.
- AGITPROPPolitical propaganda disseminated through art, drama, literature, etc., especially communist propaganda; such propaganda formerly disseminated by the Department for Agitation and P
- ARTELA Russian or Soviet craftsmen's collective.
- BABUSHKAAn Eastern European old woman.
- BANYAA type of steam bath, popular in Russia (and in some parts of Alaska as well).
- BARCHANAn arc-shaped shifting sand dune comprising well-sorted (uniformly sized) sand.
- BAROMETZA purported zoophyte, half-animal and half-plant, said to grow in the form of a sheep.
- BASHLYKA protective cone-shaped hood with lappets for wrapping around the neck, used especially by Turks and Cossacks.
- BEATNIKA person who dresses in a manner that is not socially acceptable and is supposed to reject conventional norms of thought and behavior; nonconformist in dress and behavior.
- BELUGAA whale, Delphinapterus leucas, found in the Arctic Ocean.
- BIDARKAA kayak constructed by covering a light wooden frame (lashed together with sinew) in sea lion hides.
- BLINIA small pancake, of Russian origin, made from buckwheat flour; traditionally served with melted butter, sour cream and caviar or smoked salmon.
- BLINYAlternative form of blini.
- BLUCHERA form of horse-drawn carriage; a Blucher coach.
- BOLSHIEA government leftist, especially a communist, socialist, or labour union leader.
- BORSCHAlternative spelling of borscht.
- BORSHCHAlternative spelling of borscht.
- BOYARA member of a rank of aristocracy (second only to princes) in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia and Romania.
- CRAZYOf unsound mind; insane; demented.
- DACHAA Russian villa or summer house in the countryside.
- DROOGA violent young gang member or a hooligan.
- DROSHKYAn open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia.
- DVORNIKA doorman, porter, janitor, or groundskeeper in a Russian household
- EYEWASHThe washing out of the eyes with copious solution (usually water alone) to quickly remove an irritant, as for example in laboratories and industrial plants; the washing solution it
- GALYAKA flat, glossy kind of fur obtained from a newborn or stillborn lamb or kid (goat).
- GLASNOST1980s and early 1990s policy of the Soviet Union under Gorbachev to allow more government transparency; often paired with perestroika
- GRAVITONA hypothetical gauge boson that regulates the gravitational force. It would have a spin of 2 and zero rest mass.
- GUBERNIYAA major administrative subdivision of the Russian Empire; a governorate or province.
- GULAGAlso GULAG: the system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s).
- GUSLIA plucked psaltery-like string instrument, usually played on the lap and sometimes created with table legs so that the musician can play it seated next to the instrument, originati
- HESSITEA mineral form of disilver telluride.
- HOLDINGSomething that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
- JUTEThe coarse, strong fibre of the East Indian plants, Corchorus olitorius and Corchorus capsularis, used to make mats, paper, gunny cloth etc.
- KEFIRA fermented milk drink from the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, similar to yogurt but more liquid.
- KOULANA subspecies of onager (Equus hemionus), Equus hemionus kulan.
- KURGANA prehistoric burial mound once used by peoples in Siberia and Central Asia.
- LAIKAA type of hunting dog from Russia.
- MANULA small wild cat of Central Asia, Otocolobus manul.
- MUJIKA Russian (male) peasant.
- OSETRACaviar made from the Russian sturgeon.
- PARKAA long jacket with a hood which protects the wearer against rain and wind.
- PEKOEA high-quality black tea made using young leaves, grown in Sri Lanka, India, Java and the Azores.
- PEROVSKITEA minor accessory mineral, CaTiO3, occurring in basic rocks, as orthorhombic crystals.
- PODZOLThe typical soil of coniferous or boreal forests.
- POLITBUROThe governing council and chief policymaking body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and other Marxist-Leninist political systems.
- POODAn obsolete Russian unit of mass, equal to 40 Russian funt, or about 16.38 kg (approximately 36.11 pounds).
- REFUSENIKOne of the citizens of the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate (typically but not exclusively a Jewish citizen denied permission to immigrate to Israel).
- ROOSTERA male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.
- RUBLEThe monetary unit of Russia, Belarus and Transnistria, equal to 100 kopeks. (Russian: копе́йка (kopéjka), Belarusian: капе́йка (kapjéjka)).
- RUSALKAA female water spirit that leads handsome men to their deaths underwater.
- SAIGASaiga tatarica, an antelope which inhabits a vast area between Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia.
- SAMIZDATThe secret copying and sharing of illegal publications, chiefly in the Soviet Union; underground publishing and its publications.
- SAMOVARA metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea. Traditionally, the water is heated by hot coals or charcoal in a chimney-like tube which runs through the center of the
- SAXAULEither of two species of the amaranth genus Haloxylon: Haloxylon ammodendron (syn. Haloxylon aphyllum; black saxaul) and Haloxylon persicum (white saxaul), found in sandy habitats
- SEVRUGAstellate sturgeon (Acipenser stellatus).
- SHELDUCKAny of various waterfowl of the genus Tadorna, native to Eurasia, Africa and Australasia.
- SOLONCHAKA pale or grey soil found in arid to subhumid conditions with poor drainage.
- SOLONETZA type of soil with a so-called "natric horizon" within the upper metre of the soil profile and a subsoil with higher clay content than the upper horizon, the latter having more th
- SOVIETICSynonym of soviet.
- SOVKHOZA large, state-owned farm in the Soviet Union.
- SPUTNIKAny of a series of Soviet robotic space satellites, especially the first one in 1957.
- TAIGAA subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere.
- TARPANAn extinct Northern European wild horse, Equus ferus ferus.
- TAXINGWith respect to an experience: exhausting; draining.
- TELEGAA simple four-wheeled Russian cart without springs.
- TOVARISHComrade, especially with reference to the former USSR.
- TROIKAA Russian carriage drawn by a team of three horses abreast.
- TSAREVICHA son of a tsar, a prince in Russia or Bulgaria.
- TSAREVNAThe daughter of a tsar.
- TUGRIKThe Mongolian unit of currency; abbreviated MNT, ₮; formerly subdivided into 100 möngö.
- TUNDRAA flat and treeless Arctic biome.
- TURNKEYReady to use without further assembly or test; supplied in a state that is ready to turn on and operate (typically refers to an assembly that is outsourced for manufacture).
- UKASEAn authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or later ruler.
- VOZHDA Soviet leader.
- WENTsimple past of go
- YUFTRussia leather.
- ZASTRUGAAlternative form of sastruga.
- ZASTRUGIplural of zastruga
- ZEMSTVAplural of zemstvo
- ZEMSTVOA Russian district or provincial council, or elective local-governmental administrative division, founded in 1864 by Tsar Alexander the Liberator.