Declension of Acronyms in Written and Spoken Russian

[Brewer, Michael]

Seems like if they are said as words (like ГУМ or ГУЛаг) rather than spelled out (like ЧК, НКВД, or КГБ), they are likely to decline.  

Michael Brewer
University of Arizona Libraries
brewerm at u.library.arizona.edu


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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Declension of Acronyms in Written and Spoken Russian

 В ГУМе springs to mind....



2010/10/18 Vanchu, Anthony J. (JSC-AH)[BARRIOS TECHNOLOGY] < anthony.j.vanchu at nasa.gov>

> I'd be grateful if fellow SEELANGtsy could provide some examples of 
> acronyms that decline, in either spoken or written Russian.
>
> The one I'm most familiar with, of course, is ЦУП (TsUP), Mission 
> Control Center, and which yields usages such as в ЦУПе (v TsUPe) and 
> от ЦУПа (ot TsUPa).
>
> What I'm interested in finding out from the examples is to get a 
> better sense of which kinds of acronyms will decline.  So far, it 
> seems that those that do all end in consonants and are spoken as 
> words, but I'm curious to see a wider range of examples from non-aerospace sources.
>
> Many thanks,
> Tony Vanchu
>
> Dr. Anthony J. Vanchu, Ph.D.
> TechTrans International, Inc.
> Director, JSC Language Education Center NASA Johnson Space Center 
> Houston, TX
> (281) 483-0644
> (281) 483-4050 (fax)
>
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