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The Kontsevich system (Russian: Система Концевича/Sistema Kontsevicha) for the Cyrillization of the Korean language was created by the Russian scholar Lev Kontsevich (Russian: Лев Концевич, [kɐnˈtsɛvʲɪtɕ]) on the basis of the earlier system designed by Aleksandr Kholodovich (Russian: Александр Холодович, [xəlɐˈdovʲɪtɕ]). It is currently the main system of transcribing Korean words into the Russian language.
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Introduction
Cyrillization systems for Korean were developed domestically in both North Korea (where it has been proposed to replace the current script in the past) and South Korea; Kontsevich carried out work on the systemisation of these rules. In contrast with some systems of romanization of Korean, the transcription is based primarily on the pronunciation of a word, rather than on its spelling.
Medial consonant rules
Some letters are transcribed differently in the middle of a word when following certain other letters.