Certified Russian Translation Services

We provide certified Russian to English and English to Russian translation for documents that must be accepted by US agencies, courts, universities and licensing boards. Every translation carries a signed certificate of accuracy from a State Court Certified Translator.

Your patronymic has nowhere to go on a US form

Russian names have three parts: given name, patronymic formed from the father's name (Ivanovich, Ivanovna), and surname. US forms provide first, middle and last — so the patronymic gets entered as a middle name, or dropped, and different documents in the same set end up disagreeing about whether you have a middle name at all.

Surnames also inflect by gender: a daughter of Ivanov is Ivanova. That is correct Russian and looks like an inconsistency to a reviewer comparing a father's and daughter's documents side by side. We translate names as they appear, keep the treatment consistent across your whole document set, and make the relationship legible rather than leaving a reviewer to guess.

Cyrillic has more than one accepted romanisation

There are several competing transliteration standards, and passports issued in different years have used different ones — so your own name may be spelled one way on an older document and another on a current passport, with neither being wrong. Send us the current passport spelling. We use it consistently and handle the older variants so they read as the same person rather than as a discrepancy.

Soviet-era documents are not necessarily Russian documents

Records issued anywhere in the USSR before 1991 are typically in Russian, whether they came from Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia or the Baltic states. The language is Russian; the issuing authority is a state that no longer exists, and the successor authority for reissues is whichever country now holds that registry. This matters when you need a fresh copy or an apostille rather than just a translation — the country you apply to is the successor state, not Russia.