how each letter maps to Latin in each of the three schemes
Cyrillic
GOST R 52535
ICAO / MVD
URL / slug
А а
A
A
a
Б б
B
B
b
В в
V
V
v
Г г
G
G
g
Д д
D
D
d
Е е
E
E
e
Ё ё
YO
E
yo
Ж ж
ZH
ZH
zh
З з
Z
Z
z
И и
I
I
i
Й й
Y
I
y
К к
K
K
k
Л л
L
L
l
М м
M
M
m
Н н
N
N
n
О о
O
O
o
П п
P
P
p
Р р
R
R
r
С с
S
S
s
Т т
T
T
t
У у
U
U
u
Ф ф
F
F
f
Х х
KH
KH
kh
Ц ц
TS
TS
ts
Ч ч
CH
CH
ch
Ш ш
SH
SH
sh
Щ щ
SHCH
SHCH
shch
Ъ ъ
IE
—
—
Ы ы
Y
Y
y
Ь ь
—
—
—
Э э
E
E
e
Ю ю
YU
IU
yu
Я я
YA
IA
ya
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About the standards
GOST R 52535
Old passport
Ю → YU · Ё → YO · Ъ → IE
Russian standard for old-format international passports (until 2010) and many GIS systems. The soft sign Ь is dropped. Based on English phonetics. This is the scheme you'd see in an old passport — a GOST R 52535 spelling of a surname may differ from the modern one.
ICAO / MVD passport
New passport
Ю → IU · Ё → E · Ъ → skip
Since 2010 Russia uses the ICAO Doc 9303 standard for international passports. Ё is written as E (no Y). Ю/Я → IU/IA rather than YU/YA. Because of the transition, a surname in a new passport may differ — one can apply to keep the old spelling.
URL / slug
For links
'Привет мир!' → privet-mir
Strict lower-case transliteration, ASCII letters + digits + hyphen. Spaces and underscores become hyphens, consecutive hyphens collapse, leading and trailing hyphens are stripped. Punctuation is removed. URL-safe and SEO-friendly (human-readable slugs).
Й, Ь, Ъ — edge cases
Rules
'Мария' = MARIYA (GOST) / MARIIA (MVD)
Й before a space in some MVD schemes becomes I rather than II. Ъ is usually dropped or replaced with IE. Ь is almost always dropped. Because of the different schemes 'Мария' → MARIYA / MARIIA / mariya. Always specify which scheme you're using.
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Frequently asked questions
Type the name and choose a standard. For a Russian international passport issued after 2014 the «ICAO / MVD» mode is the right one; «GOST R 52535» matches older passports. For links and file names use the third mode, which produces plain lowercase Latin without the passport quirks.
Because passport transliteration follows a fixed table rather than English spelling habits. The same name written by ear as Yuri, Yury or Youri becomes IURII by the table, and Zhukov becomes ZHUKOV rather than Joukov. The table leaves no room for choice, which is exactly why border systems can match a name across documents.
Transliteration converts letters, translation converts meaning. A street named Цветной бульвар transliterates to Tsvetnoy bulvar and translates to Colour Boulevard — and on a sign or an address label the transliteration is what gets you there. Documents, addresses and names always use transliteration; only descriptive text is translated.
Pick the «URL / slug» mode. It lowercases the text, turns spaces and underscores into hyphens and drops everything a URL cannot carry, collapsing repeated hyphens on the way. The result stays readable when copied into a message and shows up intact in search results, unlike Cyrillic in a URL, which browsers display as a run of percent signs.
Match the standard to the document, not to how the result looks. Anything that has to agree with a Russian passport issued after 2014 uses ICAO / MVD; papers tied to an older passport use GOST R 52535; links, file names and slugs use the URL mode. Mixing them is what makes a booking name disagree with a passport.
No. The conversion runs in your browser using tables shipped with the page: the text never leaves the device. You can open the page, switch off the internet and keep working. Nothing is stored, so a passport name typed here disappears with the tab. Only the name of the opened tool is sent, for a popularity counter.