Translation and Transliteration are different from each other. Software for both kinds of works is available online. One can download them free of cost.

English is world accepted language. Facilities of translating Russian to English are available with Google and many other sites. Translation is done through machines (the software for translation) and also manually (which is not free). Translation involves translating of source language works to target language.

In transliteration there is a mapping process regarding the work. Each word is written in corresponding language with emphasis on the script. The source word is written in the same manner in target language.

In transcription there is more of phonetic emphasis.

Russian Alphabets are written and spelled out differently. For transliteration purpose Russian words are written in Latin English. Russian alphabets are difficult to write down and computer variation of them might differ, in such a case it is proper to write in transliteration form, this is much easily understood by Russians. Russian transliteration makes communication through e-mails and SMSs, more easy and fun to send.

Translation might contain and error in proper understanding of the text, but in transliteration little possibility of mistakes is there. United States Library of Congress system of transliteration has been adopted as a world standard writing.

Russian Transliteration help site contains Russian alphabets and corresponding English used for transliteration. With transliteration tool you can transliterate from English to Russian and Russian to English. Even if you don't have a Russian key board things can be manage with positive results. (UTF -8) Unicode format can be copied and pasted.

If you are good typist then fine, but in case you are unable to write quickly, you can use this method of communicating.

A good internet system, Windows XP or its later version are required for transliteration purpose. Net framework 2.0 is required along with downloadable Alot. Names of Russian characters are given in English on one of the web pages. The moment you type in English, the whole work is immediately transliterated into Russian.

With this tool in hand one can transliterate whole webpage in one instance. Russian Transliteration has become easier and sophisticated. Not only this, universal transliteration code has been established. American Library Association & Library of Congress has set up transliteration rules Russian and many Slavic languages. ISO/9 is used for scientific transliteration by International Organization for Standardization.