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Some consonants (namely Бб, Bв, Гг, Дд, Жж, and Зз) are called voiced consonants because they’re pronounced with the voice, but they become devoiced when they appear at the end of a word. In other words, they kind of lose their voice.

So at the end of a word:

 Бб is pronounced p.

 Bв is pronounced f.

 Гг is pronounced k.

 Дд is pronounced t.

 Жж is pronounced sh.

 Зз is pronounced s.

In the word Boлкoв, for example, should the final letter в be pronounced v or f? In this case, you pronounce it f (vahl-kohf) because a в at the end of a word is pronounced f.