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Hi Matthew.
SHCH is a single letter, U+0429 uppercase and U+0449 lower.
I can more or less read the Cyrillic alphabet, but transliteration (of any language) is a bit of a minefield* unless you know the system that’s been used, or can ask the person who transliterated it.
Also, it’s entirely possible that the transliteration using a digraph may also occur as two letters singly (cf English “weather / outhouse” where the TH is a digraph first time and not the second)
Worst-case scenario: turn off hyphenation!

*Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian
says
“There are a number of incompatible standards for the Romanization of Russian Cyrillic, with none of them having received much popularity and in reality transliteration is often carried out without any uniform standards”

As I said before, Good Luck!
C

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