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28th March 2023
Massively improved the search results and also the display of them. Also after clicking a link in the search you can now go back to the search results.24th March 2023
We completely reworked the Categories! We created new ones and completely redid all collections of words. Additionally we have verb-pairs in there now, an example sentence for each entry and a stylish AI picture to top it of.18th March 2023
We switched our Text-to-Speech audio generation for sentences from AWS Polly to Yandex. The new voice sounds so much better! It cost a lot to run it over all words and sentences but we spare not expenses for our users!8th March 2023
In the Media section there is a new tab "Radio". There you can now listen to more than 1000 Russian radio stations.6th March 2023
Reworked register/login popup design.23rd February 2023
Heavily reworked the Media section. It now features "Today's choices", "Videos", a placeholder for "Music" and the "Scenarios".28th April 2022
First mini Media feed.17th March 2022
You can save sentences to your list now, find them in My Words (thanks to user Las_par45 for the idea!)1st March 2022
Improved search9th February 2022
You can edit verb participles now5th February 2022
Simplified the database schema, unified all forms into table words_forms2nd December 2021
We started recording of all sentences with real voices (will take a long time to go through all >400,000 sentences)15th October 2021
All scenarios now have audio recordings26th September 2021
Dialogs linked from their vocabulary words20th September 2021
We have a featured dialog on the front page now4th August 2021
Database downloads now from TogetherDB, the best online database8th May 2021
Words now can be tagged as colloquial or archaic16th April 2021
Scenarios can now have audio as well - Yana is working on the recordings!18th March 2021
New scenario area: New structure, stream-like and all free to view now16th February 2021
New design, so beautiful!1st February 2021
You can now report a word1st February 2021
You can now display all sentences belonging to a word17th June 2020
removed advertisements for everyone 🕺13th June 2020
admins can add new words now4th June 2020
added dozens of new words (with big thanks to Sandy!)17th May 2020
can set "plural" as pseudo noun gender3rd May 2020
word page shows word partner and other minor improvements22nd April 2019
improved flashcard learning and introduced learning points14th April 2019
finalized word vocabulary levels5th March 2019
all learning methods now work with word difficulty levels19th February 2019
translations can have info and example now29th January 2019
translate with Google Translate (start page and search results)21st December 2018
christmas hat for the logo 🎅7th December 2018
extended the scenarios6th November 2018
search result sentences highlight search term now3rd November 2018
audio for sentences in search results23rd October 2018
audio in wordlists and category lists12th October 2018
vocabulary: A1 + A29th October 2018
new word type "expression", for example добрый вечер11th September 2018
each scenario now has a vocabulary list of the words used in it24th August 2018
we have real word scenarios with dialogs now!21st August 2018
russian keyboard improvement8th June 2018
translations divided into primary and secondary newsEntries22nd May 2018
new section "usage" for words27th April 2018
words can now have tags27th March 2018
new learning module: construct sentences12th February 2018
audio for all declensions, conjugations etc7th February 2018
download of full words database29th January 2018
Huge update to the word editing system27th November 2018
Google Translate integration on index page23rd November 2018
New learning module: Sentence construction on each word page18th November 2018
New website structure (pages Dictionary, My Words, Learn and Scenarios)10th November 2018
You can now choose the website background in your profile9th November 2018
Google Translate function in search for users with a Pro Account27th October 2018
~20%% more words of the sentences are linked now15th October 2018
You can now also edit the accents of words30th August 2018
We developed scenarios about what to say in everyday situations like in a taxi, etc20th August 2018
We now have a privacy page21st June 2018
Words now have a 'usage info' section26th March 2018
Learning words by filling out sentences6th February 2018
Reading out of all declensions, conjugations and more!30th January 2018
New database downloads at GitHub ^^14th December 2017
Introduced tags3rd October 2017
Redesign20th September 2017
Introducing ads - sorry everyone!2nd September 2017
Added sentences to start page28th May 2017
Added more than 10 new categories11th May 2017
All example sentences do show the stresses now for all words, where possible30th March 2017
Besides declinations also conjugations now show a little hint when there is a stress change28th March 2017
Links to other sources for words (see e.g. чудо) at the bottom18th February 2017
Showing short forms for adjectives18th February 2017
Nouns now show when there is a stress change (see e.g. глаз)23rd December 2016
Ability to purchase a pro account to support the site (and to pay Amazon Polly)20th December 2016
Integrated Text-to-Speech service Amazon Polly to read russian sentences and words we have no audio for3rd November 2016
Deleted 3 000 false translation from the database24th October 2016
The search now supports partial results. E.g. searching for 'dependent' gives results for 'self-dependent' and not only results for translations that begin with 'dependent'27th September 2016
The website is now available via https, i.e. your visits on this website cannot be recorded by a middle man wiretapping the internet line4th June 2016
When learning the flashcards now don't cycle endlessly but when marked as known get blocked for some time so a learning session can come to an end18th May 2016
Trainer for you to learn your dictionary words with flashcards28th April 2016
You can compose your own dictionary now when registered27th February 2016
Mini restyling12th February 2016
Language choices per flags19th January 2016
Chosen language stored in cookie28th October 2015
Enabled OpenSearch (e.g. in Chrome type openrussian.org->[tab key]->giraffe->enter)27th October 2015
Adverbs have a link to their adjective23rd August 2015
Editing of verbs (imperatives, past, present, future)19th August 2015
The search supports numbers now, e.g. 123421st June 2015
Info for sentence/example editing20th June 2015
Editing of adjectives' declensions (this was quite hard to implement actually)13th June 2015
Added Natalija's and my beautiful pictures in contact :)20th May 2015
The declensions of nouns are now editable15th May 2015
Discover section to browse through the dictionary. Not sure if it will actually be used, we will see! ^^2nd May 2015
New pages for English and German words, mostly for SEO, e.g. http://en.openrussian.org/en/mouse ^^24th April 2015
Editing of word translations12th April 2015
Support to enter russian letters in the search field with the keyboard icon11th April 2015
Search for derived forms of a russian word15th March 2015
Lots of optimization on the search7th March 2015
Website translation to German and fetched German example sentences and word translations21st February 2015
~150,000 example sentences from Tatoeba integrated.8th February 2015
5,011 audio samples from Shtooka integrated.5th February 2015
Lots of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)31st January 2015
Going live29th January 2015
New website layout15th January 2015
First data from Wiktionary and Dicipedia7th January 2015
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