Introduction: In recent years, sentiment analysis has found practical application in many areas, such as evaluating the quality of products and services based on customers’ online reviews, analyzing negative emotions in messages, forecasting stock markets or political situations based on news data. In this regard, a large number of systems and methods for Russian text sentiment analysis are being developed. Purpose: A detailed review of approaches, and comparative analysis of available databases in the field of Russian text sentimental analysis. Results: Our analytical review of the approaches to Russian text data sentiment analysis has shown that there are a large number of ways for preprocessing, vectorization and machine classification of the text data. Studying the available databases shows that the Russian text sentimental analysis is less developed than that for other major world languages. Studying the existing software systems for Russian text analysis reveals their low accuracy compared to English, which can be caused by the sophisticated structure of Russian. Discussion: In our further research, we plan to implement sentiment analysis of spoken speech using audio data. To do this, we will need to obtain a spelling transcription of speech for each speaker.