Mirabile dictu, you can read these small free dictionaries on any computer -- using nothing more then a text editor. Indeed you can get by without a Russian Cyrillic text display system because it turns out to be easy to read and write Russian accurately and clearly with basic typewriter characters (ASCII).
Perhaps this could be useful on your next trip, say in a hotel room or a cyber-café! Note also that translation *from* Russian can be done using text search, something that is impractical with a paper dictionnary.
These were derived from eight-bit versions that were prepared for unix / linux systems. Visit:
In order that you may benefit from a Russian Cyrillic (KOI-8) screen font whenever it is available, there is also a more bulky combined edition that that retains the 8-bit original in parallel with the 7-bit ASCII version.
As an extra, here is V.K Müller's bigger English to Russian dictionary (1961 edition), with the russian in ASCII-Cyrillic format:
All these dictionaries are freely avaible. See internal notices for more information.