region) Novgorod dialectaL Group (in Luga, Novgorod, Valday) Saint Petersburg dialect (in Saint Petersburg city and region) Mixed Pskov-Gdov dialect Lake Peipus dialect (Prichudskiy Govor) Groups with akanye Pskov dialectal group (Pskovskiy – Pskovian) (in Pskov, Velikiye Luki, Toropets) (some features, but less, are transitional to Smolensk dialect and Belarusian) Seligerian-Torzhokian dialectal group (includes Seliger Lake region in the Volga river high course) (in Ostashkov, Rzhev, Torzhok) East Central Russian / East Middle Russian (Moskovskiy – Broad Moskovian, dialects closer to Moscovian) Groups with okanye (Vladimirsko-Povolzhskaya – Vladimirian-Volgian) (some characteristics are transitional and common to Northern Russian dialects) Tverian or Western (in Tver and Klin) Central (mainly between Volga and Oka rivers) (in Vladimir, Suzdal, Rostov in the Volga, Ivanovo) Nizhny Novgorodian or Eastern (in Murom and Nizhny Novgorod) Groups with akanye (includes Moscow, Yegoryevsk, Kasimov, Temnikov and Nizhny Lomov) Group A – Moscovian Proper / Moscow dialect (in Moscow city and region) (basis of Modern Standard Russian but not identical) Group B – Yegoryevsk-Kasimovian (in Yegoryevsk) Group V (C) – Temnikov-Nizhny Lomov (in Temnikov and Nizhny Lomov) Chukhloma dialect (in Chukhloma region) (a central Russian dialectal island) Samara dialect (in Samara city and region) (forms a dialectal island) Astrakhan Russian (in Astrakhan city and region) Northern Russian Western Ladoga-Tikhvin (in Novaya Ladoga and Tikhvin) Eastern Vologda-Vyatka / Vologda-Kirov (Vologodsko-Vyatskiy – Vologdian-Vyatian) (in Vologda, Vyatka or Kirov and Perm city and region) Kostroma-Yaroslavl (in Yaroslavl and Kostroma) Transitional groups Onegian / Olonetsian Russian (Olonetskiy) (in south Lake Onega region) (includes Vytegra) (not to be confused with Olonets or Livvi-Karelian, an Uralic language) (Olonets / Livvi Karelian substrate and influence) Lachian (eastern region of Lake Lacha) Belozersk-Bezhetsk (in Belozersk, Bezhetsk, Cherepovets) Pomor dialects (traditionally they were spoken by the Pomors in the northern coastal regions of the White Sea and Barents Sea, and also more inland, in the arctic regions of European Russia) (includes Arkhangelsk and Murmansk) Siberian Russian dialects (a group of dialects in a very big landmass language area, in Siberia, in the broadsense also including the Russian Far East) (the dialects of the Siberian Russians and other Starozhily Russians were formed mainly on the basis of Northern Russian dialects although there was also contribution from the dialects of Russian settlers speaking dialects of Middle and Southern groups) Alaskan Russian (still spoken in some scattered villages in Alaska, in Kodiak island and Ninilchik, by the Alaskan Creoles, they are