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Note on Russian Transliteration

In these pages, Russian characters are transliterated unambiguously using the system described below. The system is used consistently for the texts, but not for personal names - the more common North American spellings are used instead (for example, Tchaikovsky, not Chajkovskij).

Each Russian song text will have a link to allow you to view it in Cyrillic (Unicode).

This is the transliterated Russian alphabet:

        a    b    v    g    d    e(jo)    zh    z    i    j    k    l    m    n    o    p
        r    s    t    u    f    kh    c    ch    sh    shch    "    y    '    `e    ju    ja

A `j' is sometimes added for clarity with the vowels. For example: jeshchjo (rather than eshchjo) and mojikh (rather than moikh).

Note the letter c replaces the more common ts, producing such words as serdce and car'.