GOST 7.79-2000

GOST 7.79-2000 (Система стандартов по информации, библиотечному и издательскому делу. Правила транслитерации кирилловского письма латинским алфавитом) is a standard for transliteration from Cyrillic to Latin script for use on the internet, for speakers of languages that are normally written in Cyrillic script but who do not have access to a Cyrillic keyboard. It came into effect 2002-07-01.^[1]

GOST 7.79-2000 contains two transliteration tables.

System A

one Cyrillic character to one Latin character, some with diacritics – identical to ISO 9:1995

System B

one Cyrillic character to one or many Latin characters without combining diacritics. The following languages are mentioned in the published System B description: Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Macedonian. Cyrillic letters are distinguished by specific usage of Latin letters h, y, c as well as a spacing diacritic (grave accent, `). When used on Moscow street signs may instead be the traditional prime (i.e., ʹ), depending on who printed the sign.