Language Info

Russian written in Cyrillic script

Below you'll find all the characters used to write this language and all the countries where this language is used.

Standard Characters

The minimal characters required for this language

Auxiliary Characters

Additional letters (beyond the minimal set) used in foreign or technical words found in typical magazines, newspapers, etc..

Punctuation Characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning

Unicode Blocks

Russian uses characters from the following Unicode blocks

Countries

The worldwide literate language population for Russian is 195,794,014 people across 22 countries.

Russia

133,722,520 people
94.00% literate in Russian

Ukraine

20,255,594 people
46.00% literate in Russian

Kazakhstan

13,360,824 people
72.00% literate in Russian

Poland

6,925,734 people
18.00% literate in Russian

Germany

4,835,640 people
6.00% literate in Russian

Uzbekistan

4,164,846 people
14.00% literate in Russian

Lithuania

2,259,088 people
80.00% literate in Russian

Kyrgyzstan

2,084,083 people
36.00% literate in Russian

Bulgaria

1,633,347 people

Belarus

1,145,970 people

Tajikistan

1,016,227 people

Israel

912,968 people

United States

783,902 people

Latvia

738,963 people

Estonia

700,884 people

Turkmenistan

642,153 people

Georgia

443,369 people

Moldova

104,223 people

Finland

44,698 people

China

13,793 people

Mongolia

3,988 people

Svalbard & Jan Mayen

1,200 people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places, and we want to give them credit here. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes that support the language.

  1. Unicode CLDR
  2. CLDR Exemplar Characters