how many letters are there in the russian alphabet?
Self study guide About us New Russian Textbook. There are 33 letters in the Russian Alphabet: 10 vowels, 21 consonants, and 2 signs (Ñ, Ñ). Russian is an Eastern Slavonic language closely related to Ukrainian and Belorussian with about 277 million speakers in Russia and 30 other countries. The Cyrillic alphabet was introduced into Russia (Kievan Rus' ) at the time of its conversion to Christianity (988 AD).