Russian Keyboards

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Microsoft Keyboard with Russian Layout

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Microsoft Sculpt Comfort Keyboard (2013) with Russian layout.

Russian UKNC Keyboard

In Traditional Russian Typewriter layout, the number row has symbols swapped with numbers. To enter numbers, you need to press Shift.

The Russian Typewriter layout can be found on many Russian typewriters produced before the 1990s, and it is the default Russian keyboard layout in the OpenSolaris operating system.

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Russian UKNC computer (aka Elektronika MS-0511) 2868×1896 [ image source File:UKNC.jpg]

UKNC (Russian: УКНЦ) was a Soviet PDP-11-compatible educational computer, aimed at teaching school informatics courses.

UKNC stands for Educational Computer by Scientific Centre.

[2017-05-05 Wikipedia UKNC]

Russian Keyboard