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This category is somewhat different from the others because emigres are active in all disciplines, thus much of what could appear in this section may also appear in other sections. If you have not already perused the section entitled Resources for Russian Emigres, be sure to do so, for many sources there are also pertinent to biographical research.

N.B. This section includes biographical dictionaries or sets that are not covered in the Russian biographical archive.

Nezabytye mogily. Rossiiskoe zarubezh'e: nekrologi 1917-1997 v shesti tomakh.
V.N. Chuvakov. Moskva: RGB, 1999- . 6 vols.
UIUC Call Number:  Russian Reference Q.920.047 N499 v.1, v.2, v.3

A wonderful new source for information about Russian emigres, this set provides brief biographical data, locations of graves, and citations for obituaries and death announcements published in the Russian emigre press from 1917-1997. Although only the first three volumes have been published to date and thus the data is only for people whose surnames begin with A through K (Russian alphabetical order), it eventually will provide data for over 50,000 people. See the entry for Dmitrii Adeknov.

Russkoe zarubezh'e: Zolotaia kniga emigratsii. Pervaia tret' XX veka. Entsiklopedicheskii biograficheskii slovar'.
Shelokhaev, V. V. Moskva: ROSSPEN, 1997. 748 p.
UIUC Call Number:  Russian Reference 305.89171 R923

This resource provides biographies for members of the First Wave of Russian emigration who received their higher education in Russia and who also established themselves and achieved recognition in their fields of speciality before they emigrated. There are entries for such luminaries as Sergei Diaghilev, Sergei Prokof'ev, Roman Iakobson, Pavel Miliukov, and Petr Struve among others. (But don't look for Kerensky. He apparently did not achieve enough recognition in his field to be included). Over 400 biographies are included plus many portraits. The articles are often several pages in length with some bibliographical references for works by and about the individual. Entries are arranged alphabetically by surname. See the entry for Genrikh Ottonovich Chechott.

Rossiiskaia emigratsiia v Aziatsko-Tikhookeanskom regione i Iuzhnoi Amerike. Biobibliograficheskii slovar'.
Khisamutdinov, A.A. Vladivostok: Izd-vo Dal'nevostochnogo universiteta, 2000. 358 p.
UIUC Call Number: Russian Reference 304.80947 K528r

This biographical dictionary has entries for over 2000 Russian emigres who lived in Australia, Japan, Korea, China, South America, or the western part of the United States. Entries are arranged alphabetically by surname and include full names, dates, education and career information, as well as bibliographical references for both published and unpublished works and archival sources. Entries range in length from several lines to almost a page. There are some photographs of individuals and of graves. The introduction discusses the various sources of information available for research in this branch of emigre studies. See the entry for the botanist, Innokentii Kozlov.

Other biographical dictionaries specifically on Russian emigres that are annotated elswehere in the Russian biography section include Khudozhniki russkogo zarubezh'ia 1917-1939. Biograficheskii slovar', Slovar' russkikh zarubezhnykh pisatelei, Free voices in Russian literature, 1950s-1980s. A bio-bibliographical guide and Russkie pisateli emigratsii: biograficheskie svedeniia i bibliografiia ikh knig po bogosloviiu, religioznoi filosofii, tserkovnoi istorii i pravoslavnoi kul'ture. 1921-1972.

For Russians abroad who are not emigres such as travellers see the History section and the Memoirs/Travel Writing section. Note that the source Russian America has information on Russians in Alaska.

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