Certified Russian Translation Services
Certified Russian-to-English translation for USCIS, courts and universities — including Soviet-era records and work books — costs $25 per page, $35 with a New York notary seal, delivered within 24 hours from Brooklyn, NY. Updated October 3, 2026.
From Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and across the former Soviet space — including the documents older than the countries that issued them.
Everything you need to decide, on one page
Direction and documents
Russian → English only. Any Russian-language document from any former Soviet country: civil records, passports, diplomas, work books, court decisions, medical and police records. Full list below.
Certified or notarized?
Certified ($25/page) is what USCIS requires under 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3): full translation plus the signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy. Notarized ($35/page) adds a New York notary's seal on the translator's signature — courts, consulates, DMV and banks often ask for it. Which one do I need?
Price
$25 a page certified, $35 notarized, any number of pages. A page is one page of the original up to 250 words. Rush (single documents) +$15/page. Mailed wet-signed copy +$15. New York apostille +$300. Full pricing.
Turnaround and delivery
Single documents: signed PDF by email within 24 hours, or 12 hours with rush. Large orders and case files: a confirmed ready date by email after we review the files. Hard copies ship USPS tracked the same day they are signed.
Who does the work
Translated by a native Russian speaker and checked by a second reviewer before it is signed. On the notarized tier the translator signs in front of a commissioned New York notary. Your files are seen only by our translation team and, for notarized orders, the notary.
How to order
Upload a phone photo or PDF on the order page, see the page count and total on screen, pay by card or Apple Pay. Confirmation by email within minutes. Walk-ins welcome at 2393 Coney Island Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11223, Mon–Sat 10–7, (929) 355-5551.
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Certified Russian to English translation for USCIS, immigration court, universities and credential evaluators — from Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and across the former Soviet space, including Soviet-era records. From $25 a page certified, $35 with notarization.
Russian is not one country’s paperwork
Most Russian-language documents we translate were not issued in Russia. Russian was the administrative language of the entire Soviet Union, and its documents remain in active circulation from the Baltic to the Pamirs. A birth certificate issued in Tashkent in 1978, a work book from Almaty, a diploma from Kyiv and a marriage certificate from Minsk are all Russian-language documents on very similar all-union forms.
That matters practically, because the issuing bodies, place names and administrative units differ even when the language does not. A translator who assumes every Russian document is Russian will mistranslate the geography — and place names in a birth certificate are exactly what an officer cross-checks.
What we translate
- Russian Birth Certificate
- Russian Marriage Certificate
- Russian Divorce Certificate
- Russian Passport
- Russian Diploma
- Russian Academic Transcript
- Russian Police Clearance Certificate
- Russian Death Certificate
- Russian Employment Record Book
- Russian Military Service Record
- Russian Driver’s Licence
- Russian Medical Record
- Russian Name Change Certificate
- Russian Court Decision
- Russian Employment Certificate
- Russian School Certificate (Attestat)
Also court judgments, asylum declarations, powers of attorney, property and inheritance documents, bank statements, corporate records and personal correspondence. Send it and pay online.
Soviet-era documents
A large share of our work is documents older than the countries that issued them. These have characteristics that catch out translators who have only handled modern paperwork:
- Nationality fields. Soviet certificates record the parents’ национальность — ethnicity, not citizenship. Translating it as “nationality” without a note invites exactly the wrong reading from an American officer, who will take it to mean citizenship.
- Administrative units that no longer exist. Oblasts renamed, districts merged, cities renamed twice. We render the name as printed and note the modern equivalent where it helps.
- Handwriting across decades, in registry books completed by many different hands, with abbreviations specific to Soviet clerical practice.
- Organisational stamps from entities that dissolved in 1991, which still have to be translated as they appear.
The трудовая книжка — the document nobody wants to price
The Soviet-style employment record book deserves its own mention, because it is where cheap translation is most obviously cheap. It is a bound booklet containing every job a person ever held: hire date, position, the order number authorising it, termination date and the legal ground cited, each entry stamped and initialled, often across thirty or forty years and several different handwritings.
Translated properly, every entry is carried across with its order numbers and legal grounds intact, because for an H-1B or I-140 petition the whole point of the document is to establish exactly how many years of qualifying experience the person has. Translated cheaply, entries get summarised, order numbers get dropped, and the petition loses the very evidence it was submitted to provide.
Name transliteration
Russian names transliterate several valid ways — Юрий can be Yuri, Yuriy or Iurii, all defensible. What matters is consistency with the passport and with every other document in the filing. Send us the passport spelling when you order and we conform the translation to it. Where the original itself shows variant spellings, we note the variance rather than quietly harmonising it.
Frequently asked
Do I need a certified or a notarized Russian translation?
USCIS needs a certified translation: a complete English translation with the translator's signed certificate of accuracy, no notary. Courts, consulates, DMV offices and banks often ask for a notarized translation, where a New York notary witnesses the translator's signature. If the requesting office has not said which, order notarized: it is accepted everywhere a certified one is.
Which countries’ documents do you handle?
Any Russian-language document, wherever it was issued — Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia all produced Russian-language records, and Soviet-era documents from all of them are still in active use.
Is $25–$35 a page more expensive than other certified translation services?
For the certified translation USCIS asks for, our $25 a page sits in the middle of the market and includes the signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy that some lower prices leave out. For a notarized page — what courts, consulates and many schools want — $35 covers the translation, the certificate, notarization of the translator’s signature by a New York notary and 24-hour delivery on single documents, which is below every provider in our comparison that charges a separate notary fee (prices checked September 10, 2026).
Can you read Soviet-era documents and old handwriting?
Yes. Soviet forms, all-union stock, handwritten registry entries and decades-old work book entries in several different hands are ordinary work for us. Where handwriting is genuinely unreadable we mark it [illegible] rather than guessing.
Do you translate the internal Russian passport as well as the travel passport?
Yes, and the internal passport usually matters more. It carries residence registration stamps, marital status entries and children's details — the content that actually proves something — whereas the travel passport is mostly a data page.
How much does Russian translation cost?
$25 per page certified, or $35 per page including notarization, with 24-hour delivery. One flat per-page price — no matter how many pages.
Will USCIS accept it?
No translation company can guarantee how a government agency will decide a filing. What we guarantee is our own work: if our translation is rejected because of the translation, we correct it at no charge and refund you in full if that does not resolve it. Our translations meet 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) — full translation plus the translator's signed certification of completeness, accuracy and competence.
What one page costs, all-in
All-in: $25 per page certified for USCIS; $35 per page with the New York notary seal — that is the total. Most advertised prices add the notary at checkout.
| Provider | Advertised per page | Notarization | One page, notarized |
|---|---|---|---|
| Universal Translation Services | $20.00 | +$20.00 per document | $40.00 |
| Official Translations (Brooklyn page) | $29.95 | sold separately, price not published | $29.95 + notary |
| USCIS Translations | $24.99 | "on request", price not published | $24.99 + notary |
| RushTranslate | $24.95 | +$19.95 per order | $44.90 |
| Corpus Localization (Brooklyn page) | $19.99 | not published | $19.99 + notary |
| Translations Certified | from $14.50 | not published | $14.50 + notary |
| Certified Translation Center (us) | $25.00 | +$10.00 per page (notary seal) | $35.00 |
Each provider’s own published list price for one certified page, read September 10, 2026. Prices change — verify with each provider. Price and stated inclusions only, not quality. Full price comparison.
Guides for Russian documents
Asylum case (I-589 & court)
Police, court, medical and witness documents for asylum — one certified packet, $25 a page.
DV lottery documents
Uzbekistan sends more Diversity Visa selectees than any country on earth. What the Tashkent consulate needs translated.
Name spelled differently on your passport
Why it happens, and what a translator may and may not do about it.
WES vs ECE
WES forbids self-translation. ECE permits it and sells an $85 waiver. Both rules, quoted.
NVC and CEAC civil documents
The consular rule is not the USCIS rule — and the Uzbek-language exemption does not apply.
Who you are trusting with your document
Otabek Obidov — owner and translator (Uzbek · Russian · English), Certified Translation Center / Fire Up LLC, Brooklyn, New York. Commissioned New York Notary Public, No. 01OB0050820.
- ✓Signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy on every job — the 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) standard USCIS checks.
- ✓Independent notarization by a separate New York notary (a notary may not notarize his own signature).
- ✓Acceptance guarantee — rejected because of our work: fixed free or refunded in full.
- ✓Private. Files used only for your translation, deleted on request. Payment by Stripe.
- ✓Walk-in office — 2393 Coney Island Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11223, Mon–Sat 10am–7pm.
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