Russian Cyrillic ⇄ Latin Converter (Transliteration)
Paste Russian text or a name in Cyrillic and get the Latin transliteration instantly — or type in Latin letters and get Cyrillic back. Whole Word, PDF and Excel files work too, and nothing ever leaves your browser.
How the Russian transliteration scheme works
The converter uses the widely used English-friendly scheme (BGN/PCGN style): ж becomes zh, х becomes kh, ц becomes ts, ч becomes ch, ш becomes sh, щ becomes shch, ю becomes yu and я becomes ya. The soft and hard signs (ь, ъ) are dropped. Going the other way it reads the same letter groups back — zh, kh, ts, ch, sh, shch, yo, yu, ya — turns x into кс, and turns a lone y into й after a vowel or ы after a consonant.
Names, surnames and patronymics
Type Иванов Сергей Петрович and you get Ivanov Sergey Petrovich; type Zhukov or Khrushchev in Latin letters and you get Жуков and Хрущев. Capitalisation is handled word by word, so ЖУКОВ stays fully uppercase while Жуков keeps a single capital. If you need the exact spelling of a Russian international passport, remember that passports use an ICAO variant (й = i, ю = iu, я = ia) — for official use always copy the spelling printed in the document.
Russian scheme or Uzbek scheme
This site's main converter is built for the Uzbek alphabet (oʻ, gʻ, q, h). The language switch above the text box moves between the Russian and Uzbek schemes, and the text, Word, PDF and Excel tools work with either.
Known limits of reverse transliteration
A Latin spelling doesn't keep everything: e could be е, э or ё, and a final soft sign is simply invisible — so Tatyana comes back as Татяна rather than Татьяна. Treat Latin → Cyrillic output for names as a strong first draft and check it.
Frequently asked questions
Can I convert Latin letters back into Russian Cyrillic?+
Yes. Leave the direction on Auto-detect or pick Latin → Cyrillic, and switch the language to Russian. Digraphs like zh, kh, ts, ch, sh and shch are read back as single Cyrillic letters.
Does it work for Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian or Kazakh Cyrillic?+
Not yet — this scheme is Russian. Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Kazakh each have their own official rules, and forcing them into a Russian table would give wrong results. If you need one of them, tell us through the Contact page; real demand decides what gets built next.
Will my document's formatting survive?+
For Word and Excel files, yes — only the text is converted, so fonts, tables and formulas stay as they were. A PDF returns extracted plain text, since a PDF's layout can't be rebuilt reliably in a browser.
Is my text uploaded anywhere?+
No. Everything runs locally in your browser with JavaScript, so your text and files never leave your device.