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Russian alphabet

N	Letter	Name	Pronunciation	Translit	Vowel
1		ah	a in bar	a	+
2		beh	b in bar	b
3		veh	v in vine	v
4		geh	g in get	g
5		deh	d in do	d
6		yeh	ye in yet	e	+
7		yo	yo in yonder	yo	+
8		zheh	zh as in pleasure	zh
9		zeh	z in zoo	z
10		ee	ee in see	i	+
11		ee kratkoye	y in toy	y/i/j	+
12		kah	k in kitty	k
13		ehl	l in lamb	l
14		ehm	m in mouse	m
15		ehn	n in never	n
16		o	o in pot	o	+
17		peh	p in pot	p
18		ehr	r in trilled	r
19		ehs	s in see	s
20		teh	t in top	t
21		oo	oo in foot	u/ou	+
22		ehf	f in foot	f
23		khah	ch in Loch Ness	kh/h
24		tseh	ts in sits	ts
25		cheh	ch in chip	ch
26		shah	sh in show	sh
27		shchah	sh+ch	sch
28		tvyordyi znahk	hard ' in f'ew	/'
29		i	hard i	y/i	+
30		myakhkyi znahk	soft ' in f'ew	/'
31		eh	a in man	e/eh	+
32		youh	you, u in use	yu/ju	+
33		yah	ya in yard	ya	+

Notes:

It's quite impossible to explain how the letter 29 sounds (something like quiet tender cough), and very hard to do this for no-sound letters 28 (like a hiccup after f) and 30 (like a smile after f).

Letter 6 is often used instead of 7 (because 7 is absent even in russian keyboard). In this case we had to remember(!) corect spelling. So, we spell BEC as 'ves', but HEC as 'nyos'.

Transliteration sample :)

Russian phrase:

Trasliteration:

Khoroshiy u tebya, barin, sunduchok! Chai, v Moskve kupil ego?

Translation:

What a nice chest you have, sir! Beyond all questions, you bought it in Moscow?

Wrong but literary translation:

What a nice chest you have, lord! It's full of tea, I see... Have you bought this tea in Moscow?

Altavista/Babelfish translation:

Good in you, nobleman, trunk. Tea, in Moscow did purchase it?

PROMT translation

Good at you, the barin, a chest. Tea, in Moscow has bought it?

Some important words

N	How it looks	How it is spelled	What does it mean
1		metro	certainly metro, also the special big M letter that looks like a flying batman is used
2		vkhod	entrance, entry
3		vykhod	exit, way out
4		vkhoda net	no entry, do not enter, no admittance (if you try to get somewhere from the street)
5		vykhoda net	no exit, do not enter, no admittance (if you try to go out from somewhere; feel the difference with previous item)
6		vykhod v gorod	exit to the city, way out from metro, railway station
7		perekhod	passage, transition from one metro station to another on lines crossing
8		na stantsiyu	to the station... (name follows)
9		pivo	beer
10		kassa	cashbox, booking-office
11		vokzal	railway station
12		aeroport	airport
13		tualet	lavatory, WC
14		ehm	gentlemen lavatory; remember M=men, especially when attended pictogram was created by professional designer
15		zhe	ladies lavatory; looks like a waist
16		ehr., roub., roublei	price in roubles (on a label), if you see only 123.00 or 200.- or 25 it's also in roubles
17		ou yeh	price in relative units, that may mean USD, EUR or something like 1 y.e. = 32 roubles, because you finally pay in roubles

Note:

All other russian words you'll see around, are in english... :)