Originally Posted by
DanielW
Thank you,
roastpuff
. It wasn't too hard. The hotel workers and most people who make contact with tourists spoke very good English. Some of the metro stations had the names in Roman characters, but I took with me metro maps with both Cyrillic & roman characters to make things easier. The ticket machines have an English option so no problems buying tickets/tokens either.
That's good to know, thanks! So it seems like I will survive if I decide to go there.