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Most of Russian road maps to tell lie. One of better choice for good information is a Regional map. Often roads (especially secondary roads, but main roads too) at the borders of districts in bad condition.
Good map collection - Novij Atlas avtomobilnih dorog (The new selection of automobile roads)- it cover all Russia in suitable scale. Publisher - Trivium (Byelarusia) e-mail trivium@mail.ru
Good maps you can by in Riga (Latvia) in map store "Jana Seta" Stabu street, 119 e-mail: kartografi@kartes.lv

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Does anyone have any advice or know of a website that I can use to help learn the alphabet?
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Does anyone have any advice or know of a website that I can use to help learn the alphabet?
Get a Russian phrasebook instead of just looking at the transliteration of the alphabet. They usually have phrases written in cyrillic and latin alphabet, plus a chart for just the cyrillic alphabet. You can see full words that way, and you can take it with you to help you with purchases of all-important supplies like gasoline and .
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Get a Russian phrasebook instead of just looking at the transliteration of the alphabet.
+1. It will be very difficult to know how to pronounce anything just by learning the individual letters--much easier to learn the letters, then seen how some basic words are pronounced. Even better if your phrasebook gives pronunciation for city names, but not sure if I've seen one like that.
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Perhaps vito smartmap will help you.

It is simpel and cheap (4$) software for PDA/GSM.

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If this website is not updated try google with "Vito smartmap".

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Perhaps vito smartmap will help you.

It is simpel and cheap (4$) software for PDA/GSM.

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try this link: Free GPS Maps & Software For TomTom, iGO, Garmin | THE source for BitTorrent & P2P Tips, Tricks and Info. | FileShareFreak
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you can buy maps anywhere very cheap of varying scales and details for $5 upwards and you will need a russian language map as when you ask directions not many people can speak or read english so you need to be able to point where you want to go to get help!!!!

Learn the alphabet, its very easy and phonetic (much more than english)
Plenty in vlad or moscow, People will help you espically of you try to speak
we helped a few people last year in russia ourselves by translating for them
Do not worry about police, just act dumb and no speak russian etc etc
read this very amusing and you can get drunk with russian police and get their guns, you cannot do that in the west!!!
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I also agree that buying a map from a Russian petrol station when you arrive is the way to go. The one I had also covered all of the former Soviet republics in usable detail too (was about A4, a maroon colour and had a big picture of a new, but very Soviet looking car on the front).

The Cyrillic alphabet takes all of a week to learn when you are looking at it every day, so don't stress about it.

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