The well-known type designer, the author of
“Books about letters from Aa to Yaya” , and just a good man, Yuri Gordon, began a series of articles on how he translated Apple’s Helvetica Normal font from Latin to Cyrillic.
There are already three opus on this topic.
Opus 1Opus 2Opus 3')
I think many will be interested, and some will even be useful :)