oontz.ru is a place where stories are told through sound.

The features were broadcast by the BBC Radio 3 and YLE. It was nominated at the Prix Europa, Prix Marulic, HearSay, the UK International Radio Drama Festival. It has won the Best Multimedia Prize at the Moscow’s Vmeste Radio (Vmeste Media) festival in 2011. In 2020 it was awarded the first prize in its Feature nomination.

oontz.ru is based in Sergiyev Posad, a small, slow-paced, late medieval town 70 km north-east of Moscow in Russia. 

Most of the stories and recordings were done locally — on and off the tourist trail. The Features section is a growing collection of 5 to 30 minutes long stories on a wide range of subjects, from heartbreaking to amusing. All of them are narrated in Russian, but many have a transcript in English.