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6 Writing in other alphabets

6.10 Russian

As with all languages, most of the Russian letters are placed on the key whose English letter corresponds most closely. Where more than one Russian letter corresponds to one English letter, the Alt key is used to distinguish between them. The mapping between the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets is fairly straightforward; see the table below for full details.

Examples

Word	Keys
(glasnost)	G, L, A, S, N, O, S, T
(perestroika)	P, Alt+E, R, Alt+E, S, T, R, O, I, K, A
(Petrograd—St Petersburg)	P, Alt+E, T, R, O, G, R, A, D
(Kremlin)	K, R, Alt+E, M, L, I, N
(Lenin)	L, Alt+E, N, I, N

Keyboard shortcuts

Key Character A Alt+A B C D E Alt+E F G H I

Key Character J K L M N O Alt+O P Q R S

Key Character T U Alt+U V W X Alt+X Y Z [ ]