United States. War Department

“ Russian writing and printing, like English, fails to show the place of the stress. In books like the present one, which are intended for non-Russian students, the stress, is indicated by an accent mark, and by two dots over the letter e when it has the value of accented [é] : мука [muka] "torment," мука [muka] "flour," ковёр [kavjor] "rug." ”

“ After consonants, [y] occurs only when a vowel follows. After a soft consonant [y] s indicated by the letter ь and the use of я, е, и, ё, ю for the following vowel: семья [sjimjya] "family," в семье [f sjimjye] "in the family," семьи [sjemjyi] "families," пьёт [pjyot] "he drinks," пью [pjyu] "I drink." After the consonant letters ж, ш, the same spelling is used: ружья [ružya] "guns," шьёт [šyot] "he sews," шью [šyu] "I sew." ”