Russian digital libraries

search engine for scientific articles and books

Z-Library (abbreviated as z-lib, formerly BookFinder) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts and general-interest books. It began as a mirror of Library Genesis but has expanded dramatically.

a Russian national library, specialised in digital media

thumb|upright=0.5|Screenshot of main page Lib.ru, also known as '''Maksim Moshkow's Library''' (, started to operate in November 1994) is the oldest electronic library in the Russian Internet segment.

CyberLeninka () is a Russian scientific electronic library working according to the model of open science. It has a vast collection of written scientific works available via free licences.

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Flibusta () is a shadow library project mainly for Russian language books. Its collection comprised over 630,000 books. Dissatisfied with the commercialization of Librusec, Russia's main shadow library, the website was established by a group of volunteers in October 2009. The founder and administrator of the site was known as "Stiver", who lived in Germany. The website had been the subject of legal action by Russian publishing houses on several occasions. German police investigated Stiver for two years but took no action against him in 2016. In 2016, the site was blocked in Russia according to