Cyrillic ⇄ Latin Transliteration — Russian & Ukrainian

Transliterate Russian and Ukrainian to Latin

Transliteration writes words from one alphabet in the letters of another. It is needed for passports and visas, airline tickets, bank transfers, shipping labels, email addresses, URLs and search engines, and whenever a Russian or Ukrainian name has to be written in Latin letters. This tool converts Cyrillic text to Latin as you type and preserves capitalization, so "Щукин" becomes "Shchukin" and "ЩУКИН" becomes "SHCHUKIN".

Russian and Ukrainian use different official systems because their alphabets and pronunciation differ. For Russian, the passport option follows ICAO Doc 9303, the international standard used in Russian passports since 2013, in which ё is written e, й is i, ц is ts, and ъ is ie. For Ukrainian, the official system adopted by the Cabinet of Ministers in 2010 is used: г becomes h and ґ becomes g, и is y and і is i, and є, ї, й, ю, я are written ye, yi, y, yu, ya at the start of a word but ie, i, i, iu, ia elsewhere. So Юлія becomes Yuliia and Київ becomes Kyiv. The soft sign and the apostrophe are dropped, and зг becomes zgh.

Reversible ISO 9 and phonetic typing

The ISO 9 system maps each Cyrillic letter to exactly one Latin character, using diacritics where needed: ж → ž, ч → č, ш → š, щ → ŝ, ю → û and я → â. It is used in libraries, linguistics and data processing because text can be converted back to Cyrillic without any ambiguity. Choose ISO 9 in both directions to round-trip a text perfectly.

The Latin → Cyrillic direction also offers phonetic typing, which is handy when you do not have a Russian or Ukrainian keyboard layout. Type the sounds and the tool picks the letters: privet → привет, zh → ж, kh → х, ch → ч, sh → ш, shch → щ, yu → ю and ya → я. An apostrophe gives the soft sign. Open "Show the mapping table" to see every rule for the current language and system.

All conversion happens in your browser; names and documents are never uploaded.