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§8. ABBREVIATED NOUNS

Abbreviations, such as СССР (for Союз Советских Социалистических Республик "Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics") are pronounced by the names of the letters, with stress on the last: [es-es-es-er],
and are indeclinable nouns. They are M when the name of the last letter ends in a consonant; when the
name of the last letter ends in a vowel they have the gender of the noun in the full expression: for
instance, ВКП [ve-ka-pe], for Всесоюзная Коммунистическая Партя "All-Russian Communist Party,"
feminine because партя is feminine.

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