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[Pakhawaj]

A friend of mine is into Russian things and I'm buying a gift for him with his surname in Cyrillic on, however I don't know how to properly translate his surname into Cyrillic. His surname is Rusby, I don't know IPA unfortunately but using a standard middle/upper-class English accent, this would be pronounced;
R as in Rabbit or Rodent
U as in Umbrella or Umbilical
S as in Utilise or Standardise
B as in Bus or Blanket
Y as in Upholstery or Gangly

At the moment, these are the variants I think might be accurate:
Рйзбьи
Рюзбьи
Рузбьи

According to Wikipedia, the letter "ь" palatalises the preceding letter and the letter "и" can only be used after a palatalised  letter, which is why I've included it, I don't know if that's right.
If someone who speaks Russian could help me, that would be great.

[DJ]

Dunno about Russian, but in Serbian it'd be Разби.

[The Fool]

Here is the pronunciation of all of them using a sheet of paper from when I tried to learn Russian.

First: Couldn't find the second symbol
Middle: Ryuzbee
Last: Roozbee

Since the u in Rusby uses the same sound as father you can use the а symbol. So it would be Рaзбьи. That should be the sound equivalent according to the notes I have. I never did finish learning Russian, but that should be it.

Dunno about Russian, but in Serbian it'd be Разби.

It looks like this is indeed the answer.

[Vector]

Definitely Разби.  Бь is a much softer b than you've implied right there.

Й, AKA « И краткое, » can only be used after another vowel, so your first one is orthographically incorrect, and the other ones are as The Fool implied.

[Pakhawaj]

Thank you very much! Разби it is.