Everything About Russian Names
Plain-English guides to reading and writing Russian names across scripts: the alphabet, the romanization systems that disagree, and why your name looks the way it does on paper.
Showing 6 of 6Write your name in Russian step by step. A sound map from English into Cyrillic, three names traced letter by letter, and why several spellings can be right.
Dmitri, Dmitry, and Dmitrii are all correct. Russian name spelling variations come from competing romanization systems. See five names compared across all four.
A full Russian transliteration table, Cyrillic to English, with a sound note for every letter, the multigraph problem, and the rules that resolve most cases.
Learn the Cyrillic alphabet to read Russian names. 33 letters sorted into the ones you already know, the false friends, and the new shapes, with name examples.
Russian passport transliteration uses a machine-readable standard, not your spelling. See where it differs, why Ю becomes IU, and why documents disagree.
The tricky Cyrillic letters are not the strange ones. They are the false friends that look like English letters and sound different: В is v, Н is n, Р is r.