Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Russia

Care to join Category:Cultural Russian Orthodox Wikipedians :-) ? --Altenmann >talk 00:35, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2012 Mount Salak Sukhoi Superjet crash#Requested move 10 January 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vestrian24Bio 04:05, 17 January 2026 (UTC)

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Second Cold War § Asarlaí's photo insertions. George Ho (talk) 05:12, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

How should articles on municipalities (городское/сельское поселение etc.) be named? Currently there aren't many of them, but there is e.g. Sosnovskoye Rural Settlement, Leningrad Oblast. Personally I think calling that one Sosnovo Rural Settlement would make more sense, one reason being that the municipal center is called Sosnovo, not Sosnovskoye. Then again, using the suffixed form is in line with articles on districts, e.g. Priozersky District (as opposed to Priozersk District). -- Kapulakone (talk) 05:14, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

There are three red links that lead to Russian Wikipedia articles: State Academy of Slavic Culture [ru], 7 Days (ru), and Kitchen. War for the Hotel [ru]. I need an editor who knows more about Russian culture than me just so my newly created Wikipedia page about actress Olga Kuzmina doesn't have these three red links. Yoshiman6464 ^♫🥚 02:22, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

There is nothing wrong with an article having red links. --Altenmann >talk 04:02, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

@Altenmann: Thanks. But I still need some assistance. Right now, I am at least creating an article for Squared Zebra since it received an English dub, and that Kuzmina voiced the titular character.

Russian submarine Sankt Peterburg has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 04:00, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Georgi Kinkladze has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 04:09, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 04:13, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Is Conditions (Russia) a hoax article? It was created way back in 2008 and has been tagged since 2012. @Bearian: tagged it with {{hoax}} and a claim that the article is "nonsense". I know bupkis about Russian history, so I'm taking it here. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 16:19, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

It appears to have grains of truth mixed in with nonsense, possibly from either a poor translation from Russian, or LLM-generated text. It reads like Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (opera) on LSD. Bearian (talk) 17:08, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Not hoax and I removed the tag. YOu may easily see the interwikis. I will take a look. BTW in the history it is clearly stated it is translation from ru. (unfortunately the autror user:Jeremydas is inactive now. --Altenmann >talk 20:40, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

P.S. Yes the English of Jeremydas could be better ("You contrary avoid the reasoning concerning the wikipedia rules and are going on to insist on the same text each occasions"). --Altenmann >talk 20:47, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

P.P.S. <sigh> Nuked. --Altenmann >talk 20:57, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

P.S. @Bearian: I am curious what you think is wrong with Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (opera). Maybe I can ty and fix a bit. At the first glance, its mediocre quality is not uncommon in neglected corners of wikipedia. --Altenmann >talk --Altenmann >talk 20:44, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Nothing is wrong with the opera article. Do you know what happens at the end? Bearian (talk) 20:49, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

-) --Altenmann >talk 20:57, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Temryuk Idar#Requested move 24 January 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 01:01, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

An editor has requested that Controversy in Russia regarding the legitimacy of eastward NATO expansion be moved to another page, which may be of interest to this WikiProject. You are invited to participate in the move discussion. — An anonymous username, not my real name 05:52, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Never done one of these before so please bear with me.

The "Cold War" section of the "History" section of the Intercontinental ballistic missile has a lot of detail on American ICBMs, and not a lot of detail on Soviet ICBMs. I personally don't know a lot about these (at least not enough detail on specific models/development history to edit the section) So consider this an open request for some subject matter expert to come and assist. Thanks for your time -Flipkick25. Flipkick25 (talk) 15:18, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Roxelana#Requested move 8 February 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 07:49, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Can someone in this WikiProject PLEASE take a look at 2017 Ivanteyevka school attack and fix the cite errors? They really are a mess... - Shearonink (talk) 20:06, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello, I'm inviting everyone who might be interested to participate in a discussion regarding the changes to the Visa requirements for Russians map here: File Talk:Changes to the map

Vinokurov Demis (talk) 13:14, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello WikiProject Russia Members,

You are warmly invited to participate in Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026 on the English Wikipedia.

This campaign focuses on improving content related to Ramadan, its history, traditions, culture, heritage, notable events, and global observances.

You can participate by creating new articles related to Ramadan and its associated topics. Your contributions will help bridge content gaps and improve coverage of Islamic culture and history on English Wikipedia.

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We look forward to your participation. Warm Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 09:18, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Second Cold War § Term or series?, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. George Ho (talk) 07:50, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Just notifying members of this project that there is a Conflict of Interest edit request relevant to this WikiProject at the Andrey Yakunin article. DrThneed (talk) 02:47, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

I think Lev Bondarev probably passes WP:NPROF, but much of the page is unsourced. I have removed obvious non-encyclopedic content, but Geography is not my topic so I cannot do more, plus there is the language issue of many of the sources. The page is too old for draftification, and I am reluctant to send to to AfD to enforce draftification. Can someone repair it please.

Courtesy ping of User:Ivtorov, and I am also going to post to Wikipedia:WikiProject Russia for their expertise in his area. Ldm1954 (talk) 14:49, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

This is an unprocessed translation from ruwiki with all corresponding probems: referenceng, content, and WP:TFOLWP. This user made several other translations in the same improper way. --Altenmann >talk 16:53, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Battle of Kursk has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 18:13, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Some of the Russian-language online encylopedias listed at commons:Category:Russian-language_online_encyclopedias and https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Russian-language_online_encyclopedias are probably notable. Perhaps someone could create an article about https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103930216 Cyclowiki, not to promote it but just to explain what it is and why it was created. I couldn't find anything about Cyclowiki in the English Wikipedia, and the Russian Wikipedia page for Cyclowiki is just a redirect to Russian Wikinews at https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%A6%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F7 DowntownUgarit (talk) 18:02, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

It started as an attack page and I highly doubt it is notable. Ymblanter (talk) 20:24, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

<huh?> The wikinews link is empty. BTW, you should always copy cyrillic link, not this gobbledygook. Or is there a tool to back-convert it? --Altenmann >talk 22:50, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Got it: stray '7' at the end. good. --Altenmann >talk 22:54, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

""attack page" - are you talking about this link or about Cyclowiki? --Altenmann >talk 22:54, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

About Cyclowiki. Ymblanter (talk) 19:15, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

The article Adler Microdistrict has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unsourced for 18 years. Tagged as Unreferenced for 5 years. A Google search found only primary sources. Fails the relevant notability guidelines. Lacks significant coverage.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion based on established criteria.

If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion of the article at any time. Bearian (talk) 19:59, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

I made an initial pick on the artcle. --Altenmann >talk 21:03, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

There is a deletion discussion discussion on Adyghe people which may be of interest to members of this wikiproject. Boynamedsue (talk) 20:01, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

Maritime fur trade has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 02:05, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Cyberwarfare by Russia#Requested move 27 March 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Qwerty123M (talk) 01:49, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:The Tale of Soldier Fedot, The Daring Fellow#Requested move 15 March 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 08:42, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Murder of the Romanov family#Requested move 24 March 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 12:42, 1 April 2026 (UTC)