Russian literature and literary criticism is classified at call numbers PG1 through PG9665. For those of you who may like to browse the stacks, some key areas of the classification schedule are listed below:
| PG601-716 | Church Slavic |
| PG2001-2827 | Russian (philology and language) |
| PG2899.2-3190 | Literary history and criticism |
| PG3199-3299 | Collections of Russian literature |
| PG3300-3308 | Individual authors and works. Early to 1700. |
| PG3310-3319 | Individual authors and works. 18th century. |
| PG3320-3347 | Individual authors and works. 1800-1870. |
| PG3450-3470 | Individual authors and works. 1870-1917. |
| PG3475-3476 | Individual authors and works. 1917-1960. |
| PG3477-3490 | Individual authors. 1961-2000. |
| PG3491.2-3493.96 | Individual authors. 2001- |
| PG3500-3505 | Russian literature, provincial, local, etc. |
| PG3801-3987 | Ukrainian |
Some key writers of the Golden Age are shown below along with their call number range; the name as listed is the authorized form of the name for that writer.
| PG3325-3328 | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 |
| PG3332-3335 | Gogol', Nikolai Vasil'evich, 1809-1852 |
| PG3337.L4-.L49 | Lermontov, Mikhail IUr'evich, 1814-1841 |
| PG3340-3359 | Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 |
| PG3365-3417 | Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 |
| PG3420-3445 | Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883 |
| PG3455-3458 | Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 |
Some key writers of the Silver Age are shown below along with their call number range; the name as listed is the authorized form of the name for that writer.
| PG3453.B6 | Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, 1880-1921 |
| PG3453.B84 | Bely, Andrey, 1880-1934 |
| PG3462-3465 | Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936 |
| PG3476.A324 | Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna, 1889-1966 |
| PG3476.E8 | Esenin, Sergei Aleksandrovich, 1895-1925 |
| PG3476.M3-M312 | Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 1893-1930 |
| PG3476.M355 | Mandel'shtam, Osip, 1891-1938 |
| PG3476.Z34 | Zamiatin, Evgenii Ivanovich, 1884-1937 |
Some key writers of the Soviet period are shown below along with their call number range; the name as listed is the authorized form of the name for that writer.
| PG3476.B2 | Babel', I. (Isaak), 1894-1940 |
| PG3476.B78 | Bulgakov, Mikhail, 1891-1940 |
| PG3476.E96 | Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich, 1933- |
| PG3476.K472 | Kharms, Daniil, 1905-1942 |
| PG3476.N3 | Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 |
| PG3476.O37 | Olesha, IUrii Karlovich, 1899-1960 |
| PG3476.P27 | Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960 |
| PG3476.T75 | TSvetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941 |
| PG3479.4.R64 | Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996 |
| PG3488.O4 | Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008 |
dnevniki = diaries
izbrannaia poezia = selected poems
izbrannye sochineniia = selected works
ocherki = essays
perepiska = correspondence
p'esy = plays
pis'ma = letters
polnoe sobranie sochinenii = complete collected works
povesti = tales
proizvedeniia = works
rasskazy = stories
romany = novels
sobranie sochinenii = collected works
stikhotvoreniia = poems
zapisi = notes
