Аннотация:The paper describes several experiments aimed at establishing the parameters for genre annotation of potentially any text which can be collected from the Russian web. We started with a set of text classification parameters, refined them iteratively in several studies and established a reliable framework, which was further subjected to clustering analysis. Overall, we obtained the level of agreement for Krippendorff's a to be in the range of 0.51<a<0.84. We have also discovered the most common combinations of parameters in the test corpus, which should form the basis for classifying very large samples of the Russian web.