Folklore of Russia is folklore of Russians and other ethnic groups of Russia.

Russian folklore takes its roots in the pagan beliefs of ancient Slavs and now is
represented in the Russian fairy tales. Epic Russian bylinas are also an important
part of Slavic mythology. The oldest bylinas of Kievan cycle were actually recorded
mostly in the Russian North, especially in Karelia, where most of the Finnish
national epic Kalevala was recorded as well.

In the late 19th-century Russian fairy tales began being translated into English,
with Russian Folk Tales (1873) by William Ralston, and Tales and Legends from the
Land of the Tzar (1890) by Edith Hodgetts.

Many Russian fairy tales and bylinas have been adapted for animation films, or for
feature movies by prominent directors such as Aleksandr Ptushko (Ilya Muromets,
Sadko) and Aleksandr Rou (Morozko, Vasilisa the Beautiful).

Some Russian poets, including Pyotr Yershov and Leonid Filatov, made a number of
well-known poetical interpretations of the classical Russian fairy tales, and in
some cases, like that of Alexander Pushkin, also created fully original fairy tale
poems of great popularity.