LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM 1. Name of requester: Avram Lyon 2. E-mail address of requester: ajlyon at ucla.edu 3. Record Requested: Type: variant Subtag: luna1918 Description: Post-1917 Russian orthography Prefix: ru Comments: Russian orthography as established by the 1917/1918 orthographic reforms 4. Intended meaning of the subtag: This variant subtag is intended to apply to text that uses the modern Russian orthography introduced in 1917 and developed in part by A.A. Shakhmatov. 5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article): Ушаков, Дмитрий Николаевич «Толковый словарь русского языка» (1935-1940) [Ushakov, Dmitrii Nikolaevich _Dictionary_of_the_Russian_Language_ (1935-1940)] Декрет Наркомпроса РСФСР от 23.12.1917 года «О введении нового правописания», published in «Газета Временного Рабочего и Крестьянского Правительства», № 40, 23.12.1917 [Decree of the People's Commission for Enlightenment of the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic on 23 December 1917 "On the introduction of the new orthography", published in the "Newspaper of the Temporary Workers' and Peasants' Government", No. 40, 23 December 1917] 6. Any other relevant information: The decree referenced above lays out the differences between the previous orthography and the modern (post-1917) norm denoted by the present subtag. Ushakov's dictionary provides an authoritative treatment of the orthography.