Russian Words in English
- babushka – "grandmother"
- bliny – "to mill"
- bolshevik – "greater faction"
- borshch – "cow parsnip"
- borzoi – "swift, quick"
- chernozem – "black earth"
- czar – "person with powers"
- duma – "to think, consider"
- glasnost – "publicity" or "voice"
- gulag – from Russian acronym for labor camps
- kefir – for the fermented milk drink
- kvass – "leaven"
- mammoth – "earth"
- menshevik – "lesser one"
- oblast – "region, province"
- perestroika – "restructuring"
- steppe – "treeless plain"
- taiga – "conifer belt"
- troika – "triumverate"
- tundra – "elevated wasteland"
- ukase – "edict, decree"
- vodka – "water"