Russian Keyboard Layout

By Xah Lee. Date: 2017-05-05. Last updated: 2024-04-23.

There are several Russian keyboard layouts.

Russian Layout in Microsoft Windows

The most popular Russian keyboard layout, is the one in Microsoft Windows. This is the default layout in Microsoft Windows for Russian.

Russian layout 2022-01-07 — Russian keyboard layout, from Microsoft Windows. [image source 2022-01-07 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Russian.svg]

Note:

Russian has 33 letters. It uses 7 more key spots than English's 26. So, punctuation characters are mostly moved to the number row, and many other symbol character are removed.
Comma and period shares a key.
The following characters are not available on Russian layout:
` ~ @ # $ ^ & | [ ] { } ' < >

Russian Alphabet

Unicode: Cyrillic Ж, Russian Alphabet

Russian Layout Heatmap

russian layout heatmap 2024-04-23

Russian Keyboard

International Layouts

Western Europe Layouts