From Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and across the former Soviet space — including the documents older than the countries that issued them.
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. $35 a page, notarization included.
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.
Also court judgments, asylum declarations, powers of attorney, property and inheritance documents, bank statements, corporate records and personal correspondence. Send it for a quote.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
$35 per page including certification and notarization, with 24-hour delivery. Long documents with heavy repetition, such as multi-year transcripts or bank statements, are quoted below the flat rate.
Yes, and we guarantee it in writing. Our translations meet 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) — full translation plus the translator's signed certification of completeness, accuracy and competence.
Send us a photo or scan of your document. We reply with a firm price and delivery time — usually within one hour during business hours. No payment needed to get a quote.
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