GOST 16876-71 (Russian:ГОСТ 16876-71) is aromanization system (fortransliteration ofRussian Cyrillic alphabet texts into theLatin alphabet) devised by the National Administration for Geodesy and Cartography of theSoviet Union. It is based on thescientific transliteration system used inlinguistics. GOST was an international standard so it included provision for a number of the languages of the Soviet Union. The standard was revised twice in 1973 and 1980 with minor changes.

GOST 16876-71 contains two tables of a transliteration:

• Table 1: one Cyrillic char to one Latin char, some with diacritics
• Table 2: one Cyrillic char to one or many Latin char, but without diacritics

In 1978,COMECON adopted GOST 16876-71 with minor modifications as its official transliteration standard, under the name ofSEV 1362-78 (Russian:СЭВ 1362-78).

GOST 16876-71 was used by theUnited Nations to develop its romanization system for geographical names,^[1] which was adopted for official use by the United Nations at the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names inMontreal, Quebec,Canada, in 1987. UN system relies ondiacritics to compensate for non-Russian Cyrillic alphabets.

In 2002, theRussian Federation along with a number ofCIS countries abandoned the use of GOST 16876 in favor ofISO 9:1995, which was adopted asGOST 7.79-2000.

Notes

* In parentheses the acceptable additional variants are shown.

† It is recommended to usec beforei, e, y, andj, andcz in all other cases.

‡ Cyrillicі inUkrainian andBelarusian is always transliterated as Latini, as well as in Old Russian and Old Bulgarian texts where it is usually used before vowels. In the rare case where it falls before a consonant (for example, in the word міръ) it is transliterated with an apostrophei'.

The letters і, ѳ, ѣ, ѵ are found in texts from before the Russianorthographic reform of 1918.

During 1995—2009 the UkrainianDerzhstandart tried to introduce the new system of transliteration instead of the Soviet one, though none of the draft projects were accepted officially.^[2][3]

Note: * System B (without diacritics)

• Romanization of Russian
• Romanization of Ukrainian
• GOST standards

• GOST 16876—71(in Russian)
• GOST 16876—71 (1981), scan
• GOST 7.79—2000(in Russian)
• United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (2007).Technical reference manual for the standardization of geographical names(PDF). New York: United Nations. pp. 44–45.ISBN 978-92-1-161500-5. Retrieved6 April 2011.
• Report on the Current Status of United Nations Romanization Systems for Geographical Names, compiled by the UNGEGN Working Group on Romanization Systems; Version 2.2, January 2003.

• Romanization of Cyrillic
• Russian language
• GOST standards

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