URL slug from Russian text

Transliterate Russian Cyrillic titles into ASCII URL slugs. The standard transliteration is BGN/PCGN — same as you see on signs and passports. Single-character mappings except for `я` → `ya`, `ю` → `yu`, `щ` → `shch`.

intermediate Russian (Cyrillic)

Sample input → output

slugmint "Привет мир: новости из Москвы 2026"
privet-mir-novosti-iz-moskvy-2026

slugmint "Щука и ёрш — рыбы Подмосковья"
shchuka-i-yorsh-ryby-podmoskovya

Transliteration rules

BGN/PCGN: а→a, б→b, в→v, г→g, д→d, е→e, ё→yo, ж→zh, з→z, и→i, й→y, к→k, л→l, м→m, н→n, о→o, п→p, р→r, с→s, т→t, у→u, ф→f, х→kh, ц→ts, ч→ch, ш→sh, щ→shch, ъ→"", ы→y, ь→"", э→e, ю→yu, я→ya

Examples

Input	Result
Привет мир → privet-mir	✓example
Москва → moskva (or moscow per ISO 9 vs BGN)	✓example
Чёрный → chyornyy	✓example
ё → e (LOSSY — should be `yo` or `e` per BGN, document choice)	⚠caveat
ъ → '' (DROPPED HARD SIGN — acceptable per BGN, but unrecoverable)	⚠caveat
Лев Толстой → Lev Tolstoj (POLISH-INFLUENCED — pick one standard and stick)	⚠caveat

Edge cases & caveats

Common use cases

International blog URL generation
Slugifying Russian-authored content for global SEO
User-generated content with Cyrillic titles
Migration from Cyrillic-domain URLs to international

Transliterate any title to a clean URL slug

slugmint generates clean URL slugs from any title — transliterates Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, CJK. Lowercase, dash-separated, ASCII-safe.

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