| Description | The United Nations recommended system was approved in 1987 (V/18),
based on the official system of the Main Administration of Geodesy and
Cartography of the former Soviet Union, also known as the GOST 1983
system (GOST 16876-71). The table was published as an annex to the
resolution.
The system is used in the Russian Federation and increasingly in
international cartographic products.
Russian uses the Cyrillic script which is alphabetic. The
romanization table is unambiguous and can be applied automatically. The
system is reversible, although rarely there can be ambiguities.
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