The GOST Romanized Russian Synod Bible (RUSSGOS)

Overview

This is the Russian Synodal Bible transliterated into Latin script using the GOST (Gosudarstvennyy standart) romanization system. The underlying text is the Russian Synodal translation, originally published in 1876 after a translation effort spanning 1813 to 1875 under the direction of the Russian Holy Synod. ^[1] The GOST romanization standard (GOST 7.79-2000) is the official transliteration system of Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, providing a standardized method for converting Cyrillic characters to Latin equivalents. ^[2] This 2020 Latin-script edition makes the Synodal Bible accessible to readers in contexts where Cyrillic input or display is unavailable, and it differs from the ISO 9 romanized edition (RUSSISO) in its specific character mappings.

Language and People

Russian (ISO 639-3: rus) is spoken by approximately 154,000,000 people in China. [Glottolog: russ1263]

References

• [1] Russian Synodal Bible — Wikipedia - History of the Synodal translation from 1813 to 1876.
• [2] Romanization of Russian — Wikipedia - Overview of GOST and other romanization systems for Russian Cyrillic.
• find.bible entry - find.bible. Bible catalogue entry for RUSSGOS.
• GBC: Russian Synodal Orthodox Version 1994 - Global Bible Catalogue. Source text for this GOST romanization.
• ebible.org entry - ebible.org.