The Russian alphabet is also known as the Cyrillic alphabet. The alphabet written in 863 AC (this year is considered the date of birth of Slavic writing) by a Greek philosopher and the first Slavic enlightener, St. Cyril (Constantine). He translated Greek liturgical books into Slavic.

Cyrillic was based on the Greek alphabet in its “parade” form – the so-called charter. It was supplemented with missing letters to convey such sounds missing in Greek.

The books written in Cyrillic came to Russia with the adoption of Christianity at the end of the 10th century. The first translations of Cyril and his brother Methodius brought from Bulgaria. These books were written in ancient Bulgarian, or Old Slavonic, close to the old Russian, so that our ancestors understood it well.

In this free course you will learn the Russian Alphabet, letters and their pronunciation. You will not hear your native language. From the first minutes of the course you will begin to learn Russian and only Russian.

The Russian alphabet is easy to learn! Learning the alphabet is the first step to learning the Russian language. In fact, the great thing about Russian is that almost all words can be sounded out as they are written.