Russian
Machine translation for Russian
Machine translation for the Russian language is supported by 56 machine translation APIs.
Quality estimation for the Russian language is supported by 9 quality estimation APIs.
Automatic post-editing for the Russian language is supported by 4 automatic post-editing APIs.
- Code
ru- Names
- Russian
- Language family
- Slavic < Indo-European
- Scripts
- Cyrillic
- Locale variants
ru-ruru-mdru-kzru-ua
Russian was one of the first languages for which machine translation was researched and developed, and remains one of the best supported languages.
Among the best supported languages, it is notable for a few features:
- complex morphology - highly inflected, with gender agreement
- monocentric - little dialect variation
Russian has the best machine translation support among Slavic languages and among languages written in the Cyrillic alphabet.
English-Russian and Russian-English are the highest traffic language pairs for Yandex Translate.
Russian-Chinese and Chinese-Russian are also significant translation pairs.
History
In 1935, Petr Troyanskii filed USSR Patent 40995 on machine translation.
During the Cold War, English and Russian were the most important languages geopolitically, and much machine translation research and development was for defence and intelligence agencies.
In the 2010s, while most providers used bridging or pivoting via English for most language pairs, Yandex Translate launched direct translation between Russian and many languages.
By 2020, Russian was supported by all the major translation application and API providers, including Google Translate, Yandex Translate, Microsoft Translator, Amazon Translate, ModernMT and DeepL.
Machine translation
 56 machine translation APIs support Russian.  Belazar, TAPTA, Lucy, Phrase NextMT, TranslateMe , … 
 
 -   Belazar  ru
-   TAPTA  ru
-   Lucy  ru
-   Phrase NextMT  ru
-   TranslateMe  ru
-   Papago Translation  ru
-   Lingo24  ru
-   Mirai Translator  ru
-   T-tact-AN-ZIN  ru
-   AISA  ru
-   Tencent Machine Translation  ru
-   Kakao  ru
-   Sogou Translate  ru
-   Tilde  ru
-   Rozetta T-400  ru
-   Supertext  ru
-   Lingmo Translation  ru-ru
-   Reverso  ru
-   DeepL  ru
-   Unbabel  ru
-   Lara  ru
-   eTranslation  ru
-   Globalese  ru
-   Widn  ru
-   SAP Translation Hub  ru
-   PROMT  ru
-   Kodensha MT  ru
-   XL8  ru
-   Apertium  ru
-   KantanMT  ru
-   SYSTRAN  ru
-   Anthropic  ru
-   Iconic  ru
-   IP Translator  ru
-   Lilt  ru
-   DeepSeek  ru
-   Watson Language Translator  ru
-   OpenAI  ru
-   Language Weaver  ru
-   Omniscien Technologies  ru
-   AppTek  ru
-   Wordlingo  ru
-   Amazon Translate  ru
-   Qwen-MT  ru
-   Live Interpreter  ru
-   TexTra  ru
-   Yandex Translate  ru
-   Microsoft Translator  ru
-   LingvaNex  ru-ru
-   Youdao Translate  ru
-   NeuralSpace  ru
-   ModernMT  ru
-   Baidu Translate  ru
-   Alibaba Translate  ru
-   Google Translate  ru
-   Niutrans  ru
Quality estimation
 9 quality estimation APIs support Russian.  Google Translation Hub MTQP, KantanQES, Omniscien Confidence Scores, Language Weaver, Smart Review , … 
 
 -   Google Translation Hub MTQP  ru
-   KantanQES  ru
-   Omniscien Confidence Scores  ru
-   Language Weaver  ru
-   Smart Review  ru
-   Phrase MTQE  ru
-   TAUS  ru
-   ModelFront  ru
-   ModernMT  ru
Automatic post-editing
 4 automatic post-editing APIs support Russian.  MTrans, Language Weaver, TAUS EPIC, ModelFront 
 
 -   MTrans  ru
-   Language Weaver  ru
-   TAUS EPIC  ru
-   ModelFront  ru