Write a Russian name in Latin letters
Forms, tickets, and citations all want Cyrillic names in Latin letters — and the right answer depends on which mapping they follow.
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The job
Кирилл can come out as Kirill, Kiril, or Kirill' depending on the system. Passport applications use ICAO, academic writing uses ALA-LC, and everyday text uses the common spelling.
Transliterate it
Paste the Cyrillic text, choose the mapping — ICAO, common, or ALA-LC — and convert. The Latin result is ready to paste into the form.
- ICAO Doc 9303 is what machine-readable passport zones use; it avoids diacritics entirely.
- ALA-LC is the library standard: ж → zh, х → kh, ц → t︠s︡ with diacritics.
Worked example
«Достоевский» gives Dostoevskii under ICAO, Dostoevskiy under common, and Dostoevskiĭ under ALA-LC — three right answers for three audiences.
Going the other way
Latin→Cyrillic is offered as an approximation for typing convenience — it guesses at the intended letters and is not an official reverse table. Names with ambiguous combinations (shch, yu) may need manual fixing.
- Input up to 500,000 characters; all conversion is local.