Hello, Winston!

 It was 30 Apr 04 09:05, when Winston Smith scribbled to All:

 WS> I wish to be tutored in the format of Russian telephone numbers....
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 WS> having input that looks like XXXXXX, a programmer might use 'XX XX
 WS> XX' or [XX][XX][XX], for example.  I was wondering how the Russian
 WS> telephone numbers are used?  (North America uses a 3-3-4,

Calm down - Russians are the same people too  Whatever
you're used to think about :)

Well, seriously - we have the very same numeration system. In fact, towns
and cities have a lot of subscribers, so the very large cities have
7-digits numbers, while most of regular Russian cities have 6-digits
numbers. Anyway, a regular city number is 6- or 7-digits number, just like
AA-BB-CC, when "AA" is a station number (it is a 3-digit number
in big cities like Moscow, St.Petersburg or other, or 2-digit in smaller
ones), and BB-CC are subscriber's number (4-digit just like in US). In
front of that we have a region code what is 3 or 4 digits which has to be
dialed to get outside the local area.

So, Winston, if you want to call me here in Cheboxary, Russia, you have to
dial +7-8352-62-4546, where are: "+7" is Russia, "8352"
is Cheboxary area, "62" is my local phone station and
"4546" is my local number. My wife and kids here in Cheboxary
(while outside the home but are within the city) just dial
"624546" and that's it! :)

If you'd want to call me - remember that I'm +0400 GMT time 

        Best wishes,
                     Mix.

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