Russian dialects are spoken variants of the Russian language.. Russian dialects and territorial varieties are divided in two conceptual chronological and geographic categories: The dialects of the territory of the primary formation, which consist of "Old" Russia of the 16th century (before the Eastern conquests by Ivan the Terrible) and roughly correlate with the modern Central and ...

Russian (Russian: русский язык, romanized: russkiy yazyk) is an East Slavic language mainly spoken across Russia.It is the native language of the Russians, and belongs to the Indo-European language family.It is one of three living East Slavic languages, and is also a part of the larger Balto-Slavic languages.Besides Russia itself, Russian is an official language in Belarus ...