Bible translations into Russian

Tsar Peter the Great felt that the Russian people needed a Bible in the vernacular and authorized Pastor Johann Ernst Glück in 1703 to prepare such an edition.

The year 1826 saw an end to the activity of the Bible Society in the ban put upon all kinds of private associations, even when non-political.

The British and Foreign Bible Society also issued a Russian edition, omitting, however, the Apocrypha.

In May 2015 the Bible Translation Institute (BTI) at Zaoksky Theological Seminary in Russia published jointly with St. Andrew's Biblical Theological Institute [ru] in Moscow a new translation of the Holy Scriptures from the original languages.

This translation has been prepared by an inter-denominational team of scholars under the editorial direction of M.P.