Arzamas (website)
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 characterizes it as depoliticizing history in Russia.
Type of site | Educational |
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| Available in | Russian, English |
| Editor | Philipp Dzyadko, Alexander Borzenko, Kirill Golovastikov, Irina Kaliteyevskaya |
| URL | arzamas.academy |
| Registration | No |
| Launched | 2015 |
As of May 2020, Philipp Dzyadko is the editor-in-chief.