Russian Alphabet

The Russian alphabet is based on the Cyrillic alphabet. There are 33 letters.
It can be divided into three different groups.

Listen the Russian alphabet:


«Ъ» hard sign makes the preceding letter hard
«Ь» soft sign makes the preceding letter soft

Consonants: б, в, г, д, ж, з, к, л, м, н, п, р, с, т, ф, х, ц, ч, ш, щ
Vowels: а, е, ё, и, о, у, ы, э, ю, я
Neither: й, ъ, ь