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5 unusual facts about Romanization of Russian


Heinrich Schmidtgal

Heinrich Schmidtgal (Cyrillic: Генрих Шмидтгаль, romanized: Genrikh Shmidtgal; born 20 November 1985 in Esik, Kazakh SSR) is a Kazakh footballer of German descent who currently plays for Fortuna Düsseldorf in the 2. Bundesliga.

Kamyanyets

The tower is often called Bielaja Vieža (alternative transliteration: Belaya Vezha), which means White Tower or White Fortress in Belarusian, because after its foundation it was tiled in white.

Pinus sibirica

The Russian name Сибирский кедр (tr. Sibirsky kedr) is often mis-translated in English as "Siberian cedar"; references to "cedar" in texts translated from Russian usually refer to this tree or related pines, not to cedars.

Romanization of Russian

American Library Association and Library of Congress (ALA-LC) romanization tables for Slavic alphabets (updated 1997) are used in North American libraries and in the British Library since 1975.

Yury Krymov

The variants Yuri Krimov and Iurii Krymov are common transliterations.


Sakhalin State University

Sakhalin State University (Russian: Сахалинский государственный университет/tr: Sakhalinskiy gosudarstvenn'iy universitet) is a university located in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin.


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