Arzamas (website)

Arzamas
Type of site
Educational
Available inRussian, English
EditorPhilipp Dzyadko,
Alexander Borzenko,
Kirill Golovastikov,
Irina Kaliteyevskaya
URLarzamas.academy
RegistrationNo
Launched2015

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.[1][2] It also has uploaded some old original recordings.[1] It often has lectures from experts as well as primary material for the users to look over.[3] 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.[4] The Calvert Journal characterizes it as depoliticizing history in Russia.[1]

As of May 2020, Philipp Dzyadko is the editor-in-chief.[5]

  1. ^ a b c Amos, Howard (4 July 2018). "Arzamas: the cultural history project fighting politicisation of the past in Russia". The Calvert Journal. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Take a Course – or Five – at Arzamas Academy". The Moscow Times. 23 April 2020. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  3. ^ "Филипп Дзядко: "Быть чисто медиа неинтересно, быть университетом еще рано" | Colta.ru" [Filip Dzyadzo: "It is boring to be just a media and it is too early to by a university]. www.colta.ru (in Russian). 24 February 2015. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  4. ^ "В приложении "Радио Arzamas" запустили акцию" [An auction was launched in the "Radio Arzamas" application]. Бумага (in Russian). Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  5. ^ "Команда • О проекте • Arzamas" [Team • About the Project • Arzamas]. Arzamas (in Russian). Archived from the original on 7 February 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2020.