Now we have a target selected we need to get the name to become Cyrillic text to submit it in the site.
The Cyrillic alphabet is based upon the Glagolitic alphabet which according to most sources traces its way back to Saint Kiril and Saint Methodij of the Bulgarian Empire and was the first Slavic alphabet. Cyrillic evolved from that through disciples of the Sainted brothers. Disciples such as Saint Kliment. The alphabets were originally used to cater for Bulgarian dialects and sounds which were not covered by the Greek alphabet whilst spreading Christianity.
Cyrillic today has a few slight variations from country to country but they have all very much been standardised in the early-mid 20th century into the alphabet that is in use today. Cyrillic is also an official alphabet of the European Union. As podvignaroda is in Russian I will only present a guide to transliteration of Russian Cyrillic as not to confuse anyone with unnecessary information. Alekseij Aleksandrovich Shakhmatov was key in the post-revolution reform of the Russian alphabet and his reforms were implemented in 1918 with little change into the 21st century.
Here is a transliteration guide of the Russian letters you will find people's names written in. Some of the transliteration systems have varying results but the letters shown here have always been "true" to whatever situation I have needed them for and always works correctly when entering them into online translation sites.
Some Cyrillic letters look identical to their Latin counterparts but entering the "lookalikes" into the site will not work, you have to use the correct Cyrillic ones.
Аа = Aa
Бб = Bb
Вв = Vv
Гг = Gg
Дд = Dd
Ее = Ee
Жж = Zh zh
Зз = Zz
Ии = Ii
Йй = Jj (A Germanic J sound not an English J sound)
Кк = Kk
Лл = Ll
Мм = Mm
Нн = Nn
Оо = Oo
Пп = Pp
Рр = Rr
Сс = Ss
Тт = Tt
Уу = Uu
Фф = Ff
Хх = Hh (A hard H not a soft one)
Цц = Ts ts
Чч = Ch ch
Шш = Sh sh
Щщ = Sch sch
Ыы = Yy
Ьь = ' (not a letter in Latin but an apostrophe)
Ээ = Ee
Юю = Ju ju (Like Yugoslavia)
Яя = Ja ja (Like Yam)
There is sometimes a great difference between the typed letter and the hand written letter so assistance may be needed in identifying letters to begin with but with practice they will usually come to you. This is of course dependant on the clarity of the person writing them. There are many people knocking around this forum that are always willing to help people learn how to read Cyrillic so you can always feel free to ask if you need assistance. We all need a little help from time to time.
This person's name is Гергая, Аристрах Жаманович
The quickest and easiest way to get these letters into Cyrillic if you do not have a Cyrillic keyboard is to type them into Google Translate and tick the box saying "allow phonetic writing".
So type in Gergaja Aristrah Zhamanovich and it will automatically transliterate it into Cyrillic for you. Leaving you with Гергая Аристрах Жаманович to copy and paste into the Podvignaroda search engine.
The Cyrillic alphabet is based upon the Glagolitic alphabet which according to most sources traces its way back to Saint Kiril and Saint Methodij of the Bulgarian Empire and was the first Slavic alphabet. Cyrillic evolved from that through disciples of the Sainted brothers. Disciples such as Saint Kliment. The alphabets were originally used to cater for Bulgarian dialects and sounds which were not covered by the Greek alphabet whilst spreading Christianity.
Cyrillic today has a few slight variations from country to country but they have all very much been standardised in the early-mid 20th century into the alphabet that is in use today. Cyrillic is also an official alphabet of the European Union. As podvignaroda is in Russian I will only present a guide to transliteration of Russian Cyrillic as not to confuse anyone with unnecessary information. Alekseij Aleksandrovich Shakhmatov was key in the post-revolution reform of the Russian alphabet and his reforms were implemented in 1918 with little change into the 21st century.
Here is a transliteration guide of the Russian letters you will find people's names written in. Some of the transliteration systems have varying results but the letters shown here have always been "true" to whatever situation I have needed them for and always works correctly when entering them into online translation sites.
Some Cyrillic letters look identical to their Latin counterparts but entering the "lookalikes" into the site will not work, you have to use the correct Cyrillic ones.
Аа = Aa
Бб = Bb
Вв = Vv
Гг = Gg
Дд = Dd
Ее = Ee
Жж = Zh zh
Зз = Zz
Ии = Ii
Йй = Jj (A Germanic J sound not an English J sound)
Кк = Kk
Лл = Ll
Мм = Mm
Нн = Nn
Оо = Oo
Пп = Pp
Рр = Rr
Сс = Ss
Тт = Tt
Уу = Uu
Фф = Ff
Хх = Hh (A hard H not a soft one)
Цц = Ts ts
Чч = Ch ch
Шш = Sh sh
Щщ = Sch sch
Ыы = Yy
Ьь = ' (not a letter in Latin but an apostrophe)
Ээ = Ee
Юю = Ju ju (Like Yugoslavia)
Яя = Ja ja (Like Yam)
There is sometimes a great difference between the typed letter and the hand written letter so assistance may be needed in identifying letters to begin with but with practice they will usually come to you. This is of course dependant on the clarity of the person writing them. There are many people knocking around this forum that are always willing to help people learn how to read Cyrillic so you can always feel free to ask if you need assistance. We all need a little help from time to time.
This person's name is Гергая, Аристрах Жаманович
The quickest and easiest way to get these letters into Cyrillic if you do not have a Cyrillic keyboard is to type them into Google Translate and tick the box saying "allow phonetic writing".
So type in Gergaja Aristrah Zhamanovich and it will automatically transliterate it into Cyrillic for you. Leaving you with Гергая Аристрах Жаманович to copy and paste into the Podvignaroda search engine.
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