You can get the Russian letter sha as follows: 1. Make a file called cyrillic.sty and put the following into it: \input cyracc.def \DeclareFontFamily{U}{russian}{} \DeclareFontShape{U}{russian}{m}{n} { <5><6> wncyr5 <7><8><9> wncyr7 <10><10.95><12><14.4><17.28><20.74><24.88> wncyr10 }{} \DeclareSymbolFont{Russian}{U}{russian}{m}{n} \DeclareSymbolFontAlphabet{\mathcyr}{Russian} \makeatletter \let\@math@cyr\mathcyr \renewcommand{\mathcyr}[1]{\@math@cyr{\cyracc #1}} \makeatother \newcommand{\sha}{\mathcyr{SH}} \newcommand{\textcyr}[1]{% {\fontencoding{U}\fontfamily{russian}\selectfont#1}} 2. Put a line \usepackage{cyrillic} near the very top of your latex file, before the \begin{document}. 3. Now you can use \sha to get the symbol.