SRI Shop
Scotland-Russia Institute, 9 South College St,Edinburgh EH8 9AA. Tel. 0131 668 3635. Open Tues-Fri 11am to 4pm, Saturdays 1.30 to 4pm. We can post goods to UK addresses.
- Russian gifts
- Cards
- Borjomi Women's Cooperative gifts
- Russian learning materials
- Cyrillic keyboards and keyboard stickers
- Music
- Books
- Secondhand books
Russian Gifts
A small selection of interesting, unusual and mostly
inexpensive Russian gifts - matryoshkas to paint or tiny ones to hang from your mobile phone, painted trays, wooden toys, Khokhloma bits and pieces (eg pickle spoons), juniperwood teapot mats. 
Cards
Greeting cards (no message) sold in aid of charities ChildAid, Ecologia, St Gregory's and HALE.
Other charities working in Russia and neighbouring countries are
invited to contact us concerning sale of their gifts and cards.We also have beautiful photographic cards of Moscow, Novgorod and Turgenev's birthplace Spasskoye Lutovinovo by Sheila Sim.
Borjomi Women's Cooperative "Just By Hand"
Brightly coloured felt opera jewellery, knitwear, soft toys and other items.
Charming and unusual gifts made by women in the small Georgian town of Borjomi.
Full list on request.
More information - http://borjomijustbyhand.webs.com/
Russian learning materials
NB Generous discounts on all learning materials for students enrolled on SRI language courses.
We have a wide selection of Ruslan's excellent textbooks and CD 
Roms for adult learners including their new grammar book. See www.ruslan.co.uk for details - and come in to look at them at the SRI.Other language courses include two business courses by A.Berdichevski - "Pochemu eto proizoshlo?" (Video course) and the textbook "Lestnitsa / Steps. Living Russian for businessmen travelling to Russia for the first time"
And last but not least this brilliant "speaking alphabet". £20.
Cyrillic keyboards and keyboard stickers
Black Cyrillic / Qwerty keyboards for Windows and Mac computers; USB connection. £15. Very smart and work brilliantly. Supplied by Portsmouth Russian Club.
Russian keyboard stickers, various colours and some bilingual. £5Music
Recordings by the Voskresenije Choir of St Petersburg: all CDs £12Silver CD: sacred songs
Gold and Green CDs: a mixture of sacred and folk music
Full details on request.
We also stock a variety of other music.
Books
Olga Slavnikova - "2017". English translation of the 2006 winner of the Russian Booker prize. Duckworth 2010, £16.99
Е. Молданов – «Трудный возраст», Дебют/Север 2010. £5. Debut prize finalist.
From Glas New Russian Writing, all at the special SRF price of £5:
• Maria Galina – “Iramifications”. Glas, 2008.
• “NINE of Russia’s foremost women writers”. Glas 2003
• Valery Ronshin – “Living a Life”. Glas 2002.
• “Squaring the Circle: winners of the Debut Prize3”. Glas 2010.
• Nina Gabrielyan – “Master of the Grass”. Glas 2004.
• Larissa Miller – “Dim and Distant Days”. Glas 2000.
• “Strange Soviet Practices”. Glas 2004.
• Alexander Pokrovsky “Sea Stories”, Alexander Terkhov “Army Stories”. Glas 2007.
Steve Chadwick - "Loch Ewe during World War II". 1996. £2.50
William Clarke - "Hidden Treasures of the Romanovs". National Museums Scotland 2009, £15.99
Cherry Gilchrist - "The Soul of Russia". Floris Books 2008. £16.99
Tom Hubbard - "Marie B". Ravenscraig Press 2009. £12.95
Averil King - "Isaak Levitan: Lyrical Landscape". Philip Wilson Publishers 2004. £18.95
Dm. Morozov - "Kitezh. A community approach to raising children in Russia". 2008. £12.99