By Meredith Kreisa Last updated: July 25, 2023

The Top 9 Russian YouTube Channels for Learning at Any Skill Level

When it comes to learning Russian, getting the language boost you need is literally right at your fingertips—through YouTube.

With a host of Russian language YouTube channels available to the masses, it’s important you find channels that are updated regularly and offer a wide variety of learning modalities, such as reading, writing and speaking in Russian.

Whether you’re a beginner, intermediate or advanced learner, we’ve narrowed down the choices of Russian language YouTube channels for you, and have listed our top nine channel picks below.

1. Real Russian Club
2. VERBA Language School
3. RussianPod101.com
4. Weekly Russian
5. Rush into Russian
6. Learn Russian with Denis Fedorov
7. Amazing Russia
8. Russian from Russia
9. LearnRussian.org

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1. Real Russian Club

Real Russian Club is an excellent resource for beginning and intermediate Russian learners. It offers a variety of lessons featuring common Russian grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and vlogs.

Weekly live streams are offered as well, to give you that Russian language boost you need.

With over 518k subscribers, the Real Russian Club channel is hosted by Daria Molchanova—a professional Russian language teacher from Moscow—who offers two new video lessons uploaded weekly.

And, all her videos are subtitled in English, Russian, and a host of other languages: making it a flexible option to suit your needs and preferences.

Additionally, the “slow and fast Russian” travel videos often cover culturally significant themes such as holidays or vodka, which will allow you to improve your understanding of life in Russia as you perfect your language skills.

2. VERBA Language School

VERBA Language School—formerly RU-LAND Virtual Russian Language Club—offers dozens of great Russian language learning videos, and Ukrainian language lessons as well.

Hosted by Nika Minchenko, the VERBA Language school channel offers grammar and vocabulary lessons for beginners and for more advanced learners. There’s additional content, like information on the differences between the Russian and Ukrainian languages and business vocabulary.

Additionally, the “Visual Russian” series is a fun way to see phrases and conversations acted out by animated characters. It’s much more entertaining than just studying a dictionary!

3. RussianPod101.com

RussianPod101.com is an online Russian language learning channel and website that offers both audio and video lessons on its YouTube channel.

From learning everyday Russian words, how to have daily conversations in Russian, vocabulary, grammar, and listening practice lessons—you’ll learn to speak, read, write and hear Russian through the hundreds of videos offered by this channel.

They also offer 24/7 Learn Russian Live streams on their YouTube channel for you to get the most out of your Russian language learning experience.

4. Weekly Russian

Weekly Russian, also known as Let’s Speak Russian, offers hundreds of helpful videos for all levels of Russian language students.

For beginning Russian learners, there are simple lessons covering the basics of vocabulary and grammar. For intermediate and advanced students, there are tons of colorfully focused videos to help you zoom in on details of the Russian language and expose you to authentic Russian culture.

The videos include Russian cartoons, songs from Russian cartoons, traditional Russian music, subtitled Russian songs, Russian choral music, children’s songs, and holiday songs.

If you want to learn more about Russian culture, there are also a host of videos on Russian history, the Sochi Olympics, Russian poetry, and other fascinating topics to choose from.

5. Rush into Russian

Rush into Russian is hosted by professional teacher, and business coach, Kris Amerikos and offers videos on grammar, common phrases, vocabulary, and culture for a well-rounded learning experience.

Most of this channel’s videos target beginning to early intermediate learners. You can also find downloadable lesson printouts and audio lessons on his website to further educate you on speaking Russian more fluently.

6. Learn Russian with Denis Fedorov

Denis Fedorov, a tutor and native Russian speaker, offers a vast selection of videos on his YouTube channel, Learn Russian with Denis Fedorov. The channel is designed to help beginning and early intermediate Russian students improve their skills.

His videos focus on vocabulary building, grammar and pronunciation. Some videos also discuss the process of learning Russian and effective study techniques.

7. Amazing Russia

The creator of the YouTube channel, Amazing Russia—Olga Jarrell—is a Russian teacher who offers video lessons as resources for her Russian students, in conjunction with the textbook “Голоса” (Golosa: A Basic Course in Russian).

The introduction to her videos are great, and she explains the goals of each video as well as her methodology for teaching the topic.

This is helpful because you won’t only learn the Russian language, but may come to understand more about your particular learning style!

8. Russian from Russia

Russian language teacher, Anna, hosts the YouTube channel Russian from Russia using a unique method of teaching.

Her channel offers videos that focus on teaching grammar and vocabulary through discussions on Russian culture, customs, and history.

The videos are a great tool for intermediate Russian learners to pick up new vocabulary, learn more about Russian culture, and fine-tune their listening skills.

Each video contains Russian captions so that you can read along as Anna speaks. Additionally, many vocabulary words appear and are defined in the video to help you along.

She also offers podcast lessons for those who are less visual learners and more auditory.

9. LearnRussian.org

LearnRussian.org is hosted by Bart de Pau. Originally from the Netherlands, his experience stems from living in Russia for 10 years and also managing another Russian language YouTube channel on this list for a decade – Russian from Russia.

With a host of videos for beginners and intermediate learners, LearnRussian.org offers verbs, phrases, grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and conversational lessons. You’ll also find fun videos on Russian culture and socializing.

The videos are color-coded by topic, so it is easy to select what category you want to work on. Each video shows you the Russian words as the host speaks them. There are also often images to illustrate a word’s meaning, which is a great tool for visual learners. English-language subtitling is also available.

And that’s our top nine picks!

Russian YouTube videos are both entertaining and conveniently short, so they’re great for beginners, intermediate, and advanced learners diving into the language.

So, the next time you’re looking to perfect your Russian—or take a break from that language textbook—look no further than your favorite Russian YouTube channel to help you practice speaking the language and become fluent faster!

Happy learning!