Russian translation services

Russian translation is priced per word for text and per minute for audiovisual work, and the amount depends on volume, subject matter and turnaround. Gender and formality decisions do not change the rate, only the brief. Send your files for a free, itemised quote, backed by our Price Match Promise.

Yes. Native Russian linguists translate every project, and a second native reviewer checks accuracy, register and terminology before delivery. Where a speaker's gender is involved — a narrator, a testimonial, a character — the reviewer also confirms the verb forms agree correctly, since a wrong choice there reads as a mistake to any Russian speaker.

Yes — Russian translation, subtitling and voice over all come from one in-house team, so decisions made at the brief, such as a speaker's gender or the formality of address, carry through consistently into the translated script, the recorded voice track and the final subtitle file.

Russian past-tense verbs change form depending on whether a man or woman is speaking — was ready becomes был or была — and English rarely says which. Without that answer at the brief stage, a translator has to guess, and a wrong guess means re-recording. We confirm gender for every narrator, testimonial and character before translation starts.

We set the register from your audience and brand at the brief stage — вы for corporate, institutional or unfamiliar audiences, ты for younger or informal content — because Russian marks this choice on nearly every line of a script, not only in direct address, so it cannot be left to be decided later.

Yes — audiovisual is our specialisation, but we are not limited to it. We deliver spotted SRT/VTT files and timed two-column voice-over scripts for video, plus translated documents, articles, marketing copy and technical material whenever your project needs them, all from the same native Russian linguists.

It happens often, especially before a voice is cast. We ask the studio or agency for a placeholder decision, translate with that gender marked, and flag every line that would need to change if the eventual voice turns out to be different. It is far cheaper to fix at script stage than after recording is finished.

For most business and media content, yes — standard Russian, based on the Moscow dialect, reads naturally across Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other Russian-speaking audiences. For consumer campaigns aimed squarely at one specific country, we recommend flagging it so vocabulary and tone can be checked against that market before recording begins.

Most short documents are delivered within 24 to 48 hours. Word count, subject complexity and the gender and register decisions gathered at the brief all affect the timeline, and your project manager will confirm an exact delivery date once the brief and files have been reviewed.