diff --git a/Lib/_pycodecs.py b/Lib/_pycodecs.py
index 98dec3c61..2c043f0ec 100644
--- a/Lib/_pycodecs.py
+++ b/Lib/_pycodecs.py
@@ -1102,20 +1102,6 @@ def unicodeescape_string(s, size, quotes):
             pos += 1
             continue
         # endif
-        # /* Map UTF-16 surrogate pairs to Unicode \UXXXXXXXX escapes */
-        elif ord(ch) >= 0xD800 and ord(ch) < 0xDC00:
-            pos += 1
-            ch2 = s[pos]
-
-            if ord(ch2) >= 0xDC00 and ord(ch2) <= 0xDFFF:
-                ucs = (((ord(ch) & 0x03FF) << 10) | (ord(ch2) & 0x03FF)) + 0x00010000
-                p.append(b"\\U%08x" % ucs)
-                pos += 1
-                continue
-
-            # /* Fall through: isolated surrogates are copied as-is */
-            pos -= 1
-
         # /* Map 16-bit characters to '\uxxxx' */
         if ord(ch) >= 256:
             p.append(b"\\u%04x" % ord(ch))
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_codecs.py b/Lib/test/test_codecs.py
index 58a7d6f3a..a55057d91 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_codecs.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_codecs.py
@@ -2776,9 +2776,6 @@ class UnicodeEscapeTest(ReadTest, unittest.TestCase):
             ]
         )
 
-    @unittest.expectedFailure  # TODO: RUSTPYTHON; IndexError: index out of range
-    def test_incremental_surrogatepass(self):
-        return super().test_incremental_surrogatepass()
 
 class RawUnicodeEscapeTest(ReadTest, unittest.TestCase):
     encoding = "raw-unicode-escape"
diff --git a/extra_tests/snippets/builtin_str_encode.py b/extra_tests/snippets/builtin_str_encode.py
index fc72e6ad4..7e7cff577 100644
--- a/extra_tests/snippets/builtin_str_encode.py
+++ b/extra_tests/snippets/builtin_str_encode.py
@@ -32,3 +32,12 @@ assert not b"\x80\x80".islower()
 assert not b"\x80\x80".isupper()
 assert b"\x80cat\x80".islower()
 assert b"\x80CAT\x80".isupper()
+
+# A lone surrogate gets an escape of its own wherever it sits, and a high one
+# followed by a low one stays two escapes rather than being folded into one.
+assert "\ud800".encode("unicode_escape") == b"\\ud800"
+assert "a\ud800".encode("unicode_escape") == b"a\\ud800"
+assert "\ud800b".encode("unicode_escape") == b"\\ud800b"
+assert "\ud800\ud800".encode("unicode_escape") == b"\\ud800\\ud800"
+assert "\ud800\udc00".encode("unicode_escape") == b"\\ud800\\udc00"
+assert "\U00010000".encode("unicode_escape") == b"\\U00010000"