# Can anyone help me translate "Happy Birthday" into Russian?

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**Created:** [February 22, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-help-me-translate-happy-birthday-into-russian/291411 "2005-02-22T21:31:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_world\_s\_most\_deadliest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@The\_world\_s\_most\_deadliest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_world_s_most_deadliest)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-help-me-translate-happy-birthday-into-russian/291411/1 "2005-02-22T21:31:56Z")

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Well, my Russian co-worker (actually Belarus) is having a birthday tomorrow. I’m making the cake, and was thinking it would be neat to spell out “Happy Birthday” in his native tongue…

…except I have no flippin’ idea how to spell it in the Cyrillic alphabet. Asking him is, obviously, right out.

I know Belarus has its own dialect seperate from Russian proper, but close enough is close enough, I think, for this purpose.

Can anyone post the correct spelling for the Russian translation of “happy birthday”? If so, blessings and pie\* will be yours.

Thanks all,  
-TWMD

\*Pie offer not valid outside the upstate NY area. Have you ever tried to ship pie? It travels poorly.

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**Author:** ![Kyyrewyyoae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Kyyrewyyoae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyyrewyyoae)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-help-me-translate-happy-birthday-into-russian/291411/2 "2005-02-22T21:56:07Z")

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Here goes.

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