#83 VIV̶
We saw in #24 that there are 62 instances of Cyrillic letters and 19 instances of Chinese characters.
The character 姚, which appears 3 times, is the name Yáo.
The word ИЛЮХИНА, which appears 2 times, is the name Ilyukhina.
The note Ryland is to give a Chinese sailor in chapter 5 reads 请带我去甲板7的官员会议室 which means “Please take me to the officers’ meeting room on deck 7”.
拉杆释放ECU and ПОТЯНУТЬ РЫЧАГ ЧТОБЫ ОСВОБОДИТЬ ECU in 17.167 are translations of
the English also given: “Pull lever to release ECU”.
The образец stencilled on the cylinder in 03.174 means ”sample”.
In 09.093, Dimitri announces “60,000 ньютонов!” where ньютонов means “Newtons”.
And, of course, водка means “vodka”.