Russian uses capitalization much less than English. 📌 There are only a few cases when you must capitalize the words in Russian. the first letter in a sentence proper names: names of people, pets, geographical names, names of places, names of companies, etc. Мар и я Шар а пова (Maria Sharapova) Фёдор Досто е вский (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) Алекс а ндр Серг е евич П у шкин (Alersandr Sergeevich Pushkin) к о шка М у рка (Murka the cat) соб а ка Сп а йк (Spike the dog) попуг а й Ки