This paper contains the first description of impersonal reference in Russian Sign Language (RSL). Impersonal reference has been investigated using a variety of elicitation techniques. It has been found that RSL uses a variety of strategies, namely pro-drop, an indefinite pronoun someone, a plural pronoun ix _pl, and probably a second-person pronoun ix ₂ in impersonal contexts. The impersonal strategies in RSL follow the general typological tendencies previously identified for spoken languages , and do not show obvious modality effects (such as described by ). Some impersonal strategies show evidence of influence of spoken/written Russian in the form of borrowing and/or code-switching.