Many Belarusians Don't Notice This Strange Inscription in the Minsk Metro. What's Wrong With It?
Signs with a red letter "M" and the word "пераход" (transfer/passage) are located before the descent to every Minsk metro station. Thousands of residents of the capital pass by them every day, not paying attention to one strange feature, which a Threads user noticed, writes Blizko.by.
“Minsk, I've always wondered: why is the word 'пераход' (transfer) on the metro entrance signs written in English letters? Is there an explanation, or was someone just too lazy to change their keyboard layout?”
In the comments to this post, many Belarusians admitted that they had never noticed this peculiarity. Others, however, shared a clue: the inscription is made not in Latin script, but in Bulgarian Cyrillic.
“Yes, this is Bulgarian Cyrillic. But there's a more important reason why 'Bulgaritsa' ended up in Minsk. In Bulgaria, during the 1950s and 60s of the 20th century, its own Cyrillic font tradition was formed — adapted to the aesthetics of Latin script. In the early 1970s, a significant, large book on font history with samples of Bulgarian typefaces was published.
It fell into the hands of Soviet book designers during the stagnation period. The first fashion emerged in Cyrillic. In the 80s, VNIIITE designers (Moscow Technological University. — Blizko.by) were already actively introducing fresh forms into the urban environment,” explained one of the Threads users.
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бо я ж у том чысле аканчывала (але не скончыла) інсцятут мястамі недзе наватвазможна і благародных дзявіц. ад непрылічных слоў чырванею