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]

Name

The website is named after the historical Arzamas Society, which was a literature society based in Saint Petersburg.[6]

History

Arzamas was launched in 2015. It was founded by Philipp Dzyadko and Danil Perushev.

In collaboration with Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Arzamas opened an online university. The idea belongs to Oxford professor Andrei Leonidovich Zorin.[7][8]

Applications

Arzamas made three mobile applications: three games, and a podcast applications with audio of their lectures.[9]

Awards

  • 2017 – The course "All Russian literature of the XIX century in 230 cards" was awarded the Electronic Book of the Year award at the Book of the Year awards (Книга года)[10]
  • 2017 – The Russian Revolution course by Boris Kolonitskiy received the Enlightener Prize[11]

References

  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.
  6. ^ Filip, Dzyadko. "Филипп Дзядко: ""Арзамас" – это то, что всегда на стороне человека"" ["Arzamas" is something that is always on the side of a human]. Гильдия словесников (in Russian). Archived from the original on 3 July 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  7. ^ "Andrei Zorin | Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages". www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  8. ^ "Онлайн-университет Arzamas". Arzamas (in Russian). Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  9. ^ "Arzamas выпустил литературную игру Emoji Poetry" [Arzamas released a literature game 'Emoji Poetry'] (in Russian). Afisha Daily. 29 March 2016.
  10. ^ ""Книгой года" стала "Антология современной поэзии народов России"" ["Anthology of modern poetry of Russian nationalities" became "The book of the year"]. РИА Новости (in Russian). 6 September 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  11. ^ "ОБЪЯВЛЕНЫ ЛАУРЕАТЫ ЮБИЛЕЙНОГО СЕЗОНА ПРЕМИИ "ПРОСВЕТИТЕЛЬ" -2017" [laureats of the anniversary season announced]. www.premiaprosvetitel.ru (in Russian). 17 November 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2020.