• Электронная библиотека РГБ (The Russian State Library digital collection). Free resource.
• Электронная библиотека ГПНТБ СО РАН (The State Public Library for Science and Technology of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences digital collection) Free resource.
• Электронная библиотека ВГБИЛ (The All-Russia State Library for Foreign literature digital collection). Free, but unlike the digital collections above, this is a collection of links to free full-text books collected from all over the internet, not just the material that the Library itself holds.

Databases and portals aimed at students studying in the Russian Federation:

• Университетская информационная система России  Free, but registration is required to get access to some resources; mainly social science resources.
• Электронная библиотека образовательных и просветительных изданий Free, but registration is required to get access to full-text books (mainly modern social science material, published in recent years).
• Infolio: Университетская электронная библиотека Free full-text digitised books, the library covers mainly fiction and humanities.
• Библиотекарь.Ру  Free resource; non-fiction digitised books on arts and humanities
• Издание литературы в электронном виде  Free resource; Russian classical authors, Russian prose of 19^th and 20^th centuries, books on Russian history, etc.
• Цифровая библиотека по философии Free resource; a collection of digitised material on philosophy in Russian
• Библиотека русской религиозно-философской и художественной литературы «Вехи»  Free resource; a collection of digitised material on philosophical and religious thought

Some research level publications:

• Русский филологический портал – a free collection of digitised monographs on Russian philology
• Филолог.ру – a free collection of texts and research material on Russian literature, including  a full digital archive of the journal Grazhdanin (The Citizen) edited by F.M.Dostoevskii and his other journals Vremia (The Time) and Epokha (the Epoch)
• Электронные публикации Института Русской литературы РАН – a free collection of research publications produced by the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg), including such important publications as Trudy otdela drevnerusskoi literatury and XVIII vek.