Transliteration of the Cyrillic script (Ukrainian) into Roman script


The decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine from 27 January 2010 № 555 «On regulation of transliteration of the Ukrainian script into Roman script» approves the official transliteration of the Ukrainian script into Roman script, establishes the current rules of transliteration of the names and surnames of Ukrainian citizens into Roman script in the foreign passports.

GOST 16876-71. Transliteration rules of the Cyrillic script into the Roman. Moscow: Izdatelstvo Standartov Publ., 1981. 8 p.


As of 01 January 2012 the standard is valid on the territory of Ukraine. The standard is applied to Cyrillic script transliteration into the Roman script in the scientific and technical information areas and establishes a correspondence between letters of Cyrillic script used in Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian and Mongolian languages, and letters of Roman script.

Online transliteration program – online transliteration according to different systems and standards: the Standard of Terminology Commission of Natural Sciences of the Kyiv National University named after Taras Shevchenko, the Standard of the Ukrainian Commission for Legal Terminology, ISO 9, the tables of the decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine from 27 January 2010 № 55, the Standard of the Library of Congress, and so on.