Hello, Anatoliy!

 It was 30 Apr 04 19:00, when Anatoliy Kovalenko scribbled to Winston Smith:

 WS>> I wish to be tutored in the format of Russian telephone numbers....
 AK> The format of Russian numbers is as follows:
 AK> (XXX) YYY-ZZZZ
 AK> XXX - city code, for Moscow it is 095.
 AK> YYY - automatic telephone exchange number (we call it "ATC
number").
 AK> ZZZZ - abonent number within the specified ATC.

English-speakers are used to think that "ATC" means
"Air-Traffic Control", which is in Russian
"авиадиспетчерская" :)

2ALL: Anatoliy meant, that "ATC" is PBX, a Phone Branch eXchange.

 AK> So if you see a number like (095) 912-1234 it means that the number
 AK> belongs to a person who lives in the center of Moscow (912 ATC is
 AK> somewhere near Taganskaya Metro Station). Metro means the underground
 AK> railway system in Russia.

Or that means a subway as it used to be in US :)

        Best wishes,
                     Mix.

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