BGN/PCGN romanization system for Russian is a method for

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of Cyrillic

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texts, that is, their

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into the

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as used in the English language. There are a number of systems for

romanization of Russian The romanization of the Russian language (the transliteration of Russian text from the Cyrillic script into the Latin script), aside from its primary use for including Russian names and words in text written in a Latin alphabet, is also essentia ...

, but the BGN/PCGN system is relatively intuitive for

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to pronounce. It is part of the larger set of

BGN/PCGN romanization BGN/PCGN romanization are the systems for romanization and Roman-script spelling conventions adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) and the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use (PCGN). The system ...

s, which includes methods for 29 different languages. It was developed by the United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) and by the

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(PCGN). The portion of the system pertaining to the Russian language was adopted by BGN in 1944, and by PCGN in 1947. This romanization of Russian can be rendered by using only the basic letters and punctuation found on English-language keyboards. No diacritics or unusual letters are required, but the interpunct character (·) is optionally used to avoid some ambiguity. In many publications, a simplified form of the system is used to render English versions of Russian names, which typically converts ''ë'' to ''yo'', simplifies ''-iy'' and ''-yy'' endings to ''-y'' and omits apostrophes for ''ъ'' and ''ь''. The following table describes the system and provides examples.

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GEOnet Names Server

BGN/PCGN transliteration online
also supports the

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, GOST / UN, and

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systems {{DEFAULTSORT:BGN PCGN romanization of Russian

Russian language

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