Obscure Cyrillic characters

[Mac Doktor]

As some of you already know some of the old Soviet-era Nixies have symbols that are unfamiliar to those who use the Latin alphabet. For example, the IN-5B has the capital letter "che":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_(Cyrillic)


Does anyone know what this symbol stands for? How it was used? I Googled it but couldn't find a technical or scientific application.


I can't remember if this list allows emails to be in rich text format. I'll test it by putting the character here: Ч


Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"

[David Speck MD]

Terry,

For starters, it is the first letter of "час", which means" hour".

Perhaps from some sort of timer or countdown display.

Dave

[Hannah Mishin]

If you want help translating copy the letters on your tubes/datasheet here:  http://russian.typeit.org/

and then copy and paste into google translate.

if something in the auto translate is strange... I may be able to help