Romanization of Russian

The romanization of Russian is writing Russian using Latin-script letters instead of its usual Cyrillic-script letters.

 Transliteration table 
 Below is a table featuring four ways to romanize Russian.

 On the far left is the original Russian letters.
 The first romanization is the International Phonetic Alphabet, a way to write pronunciation of the letters as said by people; it does not account for irregular spellings, pronunciation only.
 The second romanization is the scientific romanization, and it is used in scientific contexts.
 The third romanization is Wikipedia’s romanization; this is the one most commonly used in the English Wikipedia and the Simple English Wikipedia.
 The fourth and final romanization is the official romanization system used for Russian passports; officially, it is called the ICAO system.

+ Original CyrillicList of letters in the Russian alphabet, Simple English Wikipedia I.P.A. Scientific romanizationScientific transliteration of Cyrillic, English-language Wikipedia Wikipedia’s romanizationRomanization of Russian, English-language Wikipedia Passport / ICAO А а [a] a a a Б б [b] or [bʲ] b b b В в [v] or [vʲ] v v v Г г [ɡ] or [gʲ] g g g Д д [d] or [dʲ] d d d Е е [je] or [ʲe] or [e] e e / ye e Ё ё [jo] or [ʲo] ë yo e Ж ж [ʐ] ž zh zh З з [z] or [zʲ] z z z И и [i] or [ʲi] or [ɨ] i i i Й й [j] j y i К к [k] or [kʲ] k k k Л л [ɫ] or [lʲ] l l l М м [m] or [mʲ] m m m Н н [n] or [nʲ] n n n О о [o] o o o П п [p] or [pʲ] p p p Р р [r] or [rʲ] r r r С с [s] or [sʲ] s s s Т т [t] or [tʲ] t t t У у [u] u u u Ф ф [f] or [fʲ] f f f Х х [x] or [xʲ] x / ch / h kh kh Ц ц [t͡s] c ts ts Ч ч [t͡ɕ] č ch ch Ш ш [ʂ] š sh sh Щ щ [ɕː] or [ɕ] šč / ŝ shch / sch shch Ъ ъ none ” (omitted) ie Ы ы [ɨ] y y y Ь ь [◌ʲ] ’ y ⠀ Э э [ɛ] or [e] è e e Ю ю [ju] or [ʲu] ju / û yu iu Я я [ja] or [ʲa] ja / â ya ia

 Archaic letters 
These are some of Russian’s archaic letters, and their romanization.

 Letter І і Ѣ ѣ Ѳ ѳ Ѵ ѵ Pronunciation (I.P.A.) [i] or [ʲi] [je] or [ʲe] [f] or [fʲ] [i] (or [v]) Romanization i ě f i

 Yus letters 
The yus letters, or jus letters, are former Cyrillic letters. Below is their romanizations.Early Cyrillic alphabet, English-language Wikipedia

 Letter Ѫ ѫ Ѭ ѭ Ѧ ѧ Ѩ ѩ Romanization ǫ / õ jǫ / jõ ę / ẽ ję / jẽ Name / Pronunciation    

 Sample text 

 Novaya Zemlya 
 English 
Novaya Zemlya is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean between the Barents and Kara seas, and is part of the Arkhangelsk Oblast of Russia as the Novaya Zemlya administrative district and, within the framework of local self-government, has the status of the Novaya Zemlya urban district.

 Russian (Cyrillic) 
Новая Земля — архипелаг в Северном Ледовитом океане между Баренцевым и Карским морями, входит в Архангельскую область России в качестве административного района Новая Земля и, в рамках местного самоуправления, в статусе городского округа Новая Земля.

 Scientific romanization 
Novaâ Zemlâ — arhipelag v Severnom Ledovitom okeane meždu Barencevym i Karskim morâmi, vhodit v Arhangel’skuû oblast’ Rossii v kačestve administrativnogo pajona Novaâ Zemlâ i, v ramkah mestnogo camoupravleniâ, v statuse gorodskogo okruga Novaâ Zemlâ.

 Wikipedia’s romanization 
Novaya Zemlya — arkhipelag v Severnom Ledovitom okeane mezhdu Barentsevym i Karskim moryami, vkhodit v Arhangelskuyu oblast Rossii v kachestve administrativnogo pajona Novaya Zemlya i, v ramkakh mestnogo camoupravleniya, v statuse gorodskogo okruga Novaya Zemlya.

 Passport / ICAO 
Novaya Zemlya — arkhipelag v Severnom Ledovitom okeane mezhdu Barentsevym i Karskim moryami, vkhodit v Arhangelskuyu oblast Rossii v kachestve administrativnogo pajona Novaya Zemlya i, v ramkakh mestnogo camoupravleniya, v statuse gorodskogo okruga Novaya Zemlya.

 Related pages 
 Transliteration
 Cyrillic script
 Russian alphabet
 Russian language

 Notes 

 References