Russian translator

We match the transliteration to its purpose: ICAO for travel documents and passport names, GOST 7.79 for technical registers and source citation. For Home Office submissions and notarial deeds we follow the spelling exactly as it appears on your source or identity document, so an authority does not read one name as two different people. Where the document is intended for a UK civil register, we agree the preferred spelling with you in advance.

The UK has no sworn-translator institute, so there is no "sworn translator" as a legal office here. For official acceptance we provide certified translation: a signed and dated statement of accuracy from the translator or the agency, with our contact details, and the source document appended. Where a body asks for more, this can be escalated to notarisation by a solicitor or notary public, or to an apostille or legalisation through the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). We confirm in the quote which level your receiving authority requires.

We translate Russian sources for compliance, legal and KYC purposes, including content set against EU 6AMLD and Regulation (EU) 833/2014. We do not carry out sanctions screening ourselves; we reproduce Russian legal entities, UBO details and bank relationships verbatim from the source document, so your compliance team runs the check on accurate text. We will flag where a name in the source is ambiguous, but the screening decision stays with you.

Russian (ru), Ukrainian (uk) and Belarusian (be) are three distinct East Slavic languages that all use the Cyrillic script but differ in alphabet, grammar and official spelling. The Ukrainian alphabet uses letters such as ґ, є, і and ї that Russian does not. A Russian translator does not translate Ukrainian, and vice versa. We confirm the source language up front, based on your actual document rather than an assumption about the country.

For legal Russian translation — contracts, judgments, powers of attorney, commercial register extracts — we pair you with a translator who has a legal background and match terminology to the relevant legal system. For UK court proceedings we provide certified translation with a signed statement of accuracy. Our legal-translation page goes deeper into certification and how civil-law concepts map onto English-law terminology. See [legal translation](/en/services/legal-translation/).

On working days you receive a quote within 1 hour, with an initial indication of price and lead time. The lead time for the translation itself depends on document type, volume, language pair and any required certification, and is confirmed in the quote. For tight deadlines we confirm a workable rush schedule up front rather than promising a fixed turnaround.

We combine native specialist translators with a structured QA layer: a terminology list, consistent name transliteration across the file, and a second review where the legal field, risk profile or volume requires it. CAT tools (Trados, memoQ, Phrase TMS) keep terminology consistent across volume and repeated content, and a translation memory keeps follow-up work aligned and lowers the cost over time.

A Russian translation agency takes the coordination off your hands. We select the specialist who fits your document and sector, keep name transliteration consistent across your whole file, arrange certification, notarisation or legalisation where an authority requires it, and have the work checked by a second reviewer. You keep one point of contact for transliteration, terminology, scheduling and delivery, all under a single quote. A skilled freelance translator does excellent work too; the difference an agency adds is bringing those moving parts together so you are not managing them separately.