Russian Keyboard Layout

Russian Layout (JCUKEN) in Microsoft Windows

The most popular Russian keyboard layout, is the JCUKEN (ЙЦУКЕН) layout, which is also the one in Microsoft Windows. This is the default layout in Microsoft Windows for Russian.

• 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:
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