For visiting scholars

All scholars planning to visit the Amherst Center for Russian Culture or requesting access to books or manuscripts should contact the director, Professor Stanley J. Rabinowitz. To help us find the material you would like to look at, please use the full listing of collections and the listing of cataloged collections online and fill in the collection, boxes and folders you would like to see on the registration form, and then send us the registration form by mail, email, or fax. The registration form must be accompanied by a cover letter to Professor Stanley J. Rabinowitz, the Center's director. All collections must be used in the reading room of the Center.

Registration form (pdf)

Request for duplications (pdf). We can make up to fifty copies of archive pages per person per year. A fee is assessed to cover photocopying and postage. A cover letter addressed to the Director should be appended to all requests for duplications.

Maps of and directions to Amherst College. Includes information on lodging and transportation. See also the map of the Town of Amherst.

In addition to its archives, the Amherst Center for Russian Culture houses a large collection of Russian books and periodicals. These collections are searchable in the Four College Library Catalog.

When the Center for Russian Culture is closed, arrangements can often be made to look at our archival material in the Special Collections room of the Amherst College Library.