Russian Religious Corpora

A research-oriented collection of Russian corpora and resources hosted at fisun.org.

The corpora listed below are available via NoSketch Engine (available) and KonText (in development). Corpus query interface (NoSketch Engine): https://noske.fisun.org/

For corpus descriptions, compilation notes, licensing notes, and suggested citations, see the “Corpus info” pages linked below.

Corpora of Orthodox religious language

Vopros available

A corpus of religious Q&A texts (questions and published answers) collected from several Russian Orthodox web portals (data collected in December 2025). Answers are not always authored by priests; in many cases they are provided by other church-affiliated respondents authorized by the portals.

Tokens15,568,332
Documents (<doc>)67,771
Question segments (<question>)71,510
Answer segments (<answer>)94,277

Sources include Q&A sections of azbyka.ru and foma.ru, plus Q&A content from elitsy.ru and pravmir.ru.

Foma available

A Russian corpus compiled from the online portal of the Russian Orthodox magazine Foma (foma.ru), excluding Q&A content (data collected in December 2025).

Tokens29,890,878
Documents (<doc>)31,744

Note: the corpus contains non-Q&A content from foma.ru.

Otechnik_20 available

A Russian corpus compiled from the online library “Otechnik” of the Russian Orthodox portal Azbyka (azbyka.ru), containing only texts by authors born in the 20th century (data collected in December 2025).

Tokens87,801,535
Documents (<doc>)3,273

Source: azbyka.ru → Otechnik online library (20th-century authors only).

Reference corpora (planned)

The following reference corpora are planned for integration into the same NoSketch interface:

Entries will be activated once the corpora are available for querying on this server.

Contact

Maintainer: roman.fisun@ur.de