Arzamas (russian: Арзама́с) is a Russian educational website with courses on history, literature, philosophy, arts, and humanities. The website mostly educates through video lectures but it also has podcasts, quizzes, and articles.
It also has uploaded some old original recordings.
It often has lectures from experts as well as primary material for the users to look over. As of July the 1st there are 80 courses, which usually consist of five lectures and articles for the theme of the course, and a few special projects. It has a YouTube channel with over million subscribers, its most popular video "Ancient Rome in 20 minutes" has over 9 million views and is also available in English, narrated by
Brian Cox. It also has an Android and iOS application "Radio Arzamas" that contains audio versions of every course. The
Calvert Journal
Calvert 22 Foundation was a non-profit UK registered charity created in 2009 by Russian-born, London-based economist Nonna Materkova. Calvert 22 Foundation focused on the contemporary culture and creativity of the 29 countries of the New East ( ...
characterizes it as depoliticizing history in Russia.
As of May 2020, Philipp Dzyadko is the editor-in-chief.
Name
The website is named after the historical
Arzamas Society, which was a literature society based in
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
.
History
Arzamas was launched in 2015. It was founded by Philipp Dzyadko and Danil Perushev.
In collaboration with
, Arzamas opened an
online university
A virtual university (or online university) provides higher education programs through electronic media, typically the Internet. Some are bricks-and-mortar institutions that provide online learning as part of their extended university courses while ...
. The idea belongs to Oxford professor Andrei Leonidovich Zorin.
Applications
Arzamas made three mobile applications: three games, and a podcast applications with audio of their lectures.
Awards
* 2017 – The course "All Russian literature of the XIX century in 230 cards" was awarded the Electronic Book of the Year award at the Book of the Year awards (''Книга года'')
* 2017 – The
Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a period of Political revolution (Trotskyism), political and social revolution that took place in the former Russian Empire which began during the First World War. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and ad ...
course by Boris Kolonitskiy received the
Enlightener Prize
The Enlightener Prize for Russian-language non-fiction literature (Премия в области
литературы нон-фикшн «Просветитель») is a literary prize created by the Dynasty Foundation in 2008 by Dmitry Zimin. A ...
References
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External links
Arzamas WebsiteVersion in English
Youtube Channel
Educational websites
Russian websites
Russian-language websites