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English → Russian · timing preserved: Translate Subtitles from English to Russian
Russian has no articles but six cases, so line length shifts in both directions and names need transliteration. Upload an SRT, VTT or video and get Russian captions with the original cue timing preserved.
SRT & VTT in and out · videos up to 8 GB · no credit card needed
Timing stays. Russian comes in.
launch-video.srtENRU
100:00:01,200 --> 00:00:03,100
We rebuilt the studio in winter.Мы перестроили студию зимой.
200:00:03,300 --> 00:00:06,000
And since then every episode sounds warmer.С тех пор каждый выпуск звучит теплее.
300:00:06,200 --> 00:00:07,900
People hear it right away.Люди слышат это сразу.
Timecodes untouched
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What Changes When English Becomes Russian
Three things worth knowing before you ship Russian captions.
Russian marks grammatical role with endings instead of articles and prepositions, so individual words grow while whole sentences often stay close to English length. The net effect is usually 10–15% expansion, less than German or Italian, but distributed unevenly: a short English phrase can turn into one very long Russian word that dominates a line.
Latin names in Cyrillic captions look like an unfinished job. Every personal name, brand and place needs a Cyrillic form, and it has to be the same form every time it appears — viewers notice when one speaker is Джон in one scene and John in the next. Established spellings exist for well-known names and should be used rather than invented.
The choice signals the relationship between speakers, so it belongs to the translation rather than to style preference. Interviews, corporate video and anything addressing an audience take вы; dialogue between friends or family takes ты. Getting it wrong changes what the scene says about the people in it.
One English cue, translated into Russian
Case endings lengthen words, but Russian drops the articles English needs.
- 00:00:03,000 → 00:00:05,800
English: Save the file before you close the app.
Russian: Сохраните файл, прежде чем закрыть приложение.
- 00:00:06,200 → 00:00:07,900
English: Did you get my message?
Russian: Вы получили моё сообщение?
The first line grows from 39 to 46 characters, mostly through longer word forms. The second uses formal вы; between friends it would be “Ты получил моё сообщение?”.
English → Russian, Done Right
Cyrillic captions that keep every English cue in place.
Cyrillic that reads naturally
Case endings agree across the sentence instead of being transposed word by word from English.
Names spelled the same way throughout
Transliterated names stay consistent from the first cue to the last.
Cues keep their English timing
Russian lines inherit the start and end time of each English cue, so the subtitles stay in sync without manual work.
Case agreement held throughout
Russian nouns, adjectives and verbs change their endings to agree; each line is translated as a whole sentence, so the endings fit together.
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Upload your English SRT or VTT file, or the video itself, and choose Russian as the target language. BlaBlaScribe translates every line with AI and keeps the original timestamps, so the Russian subtitles stay in sync with the speech. Fix the wording in the editor, then download SRT or VTT or export an MP4 with the subtitles burned in. Translation is available on paid plans from $14 a month.
Yes, and consistently across the file. Well-known names use their established Russian spelling; you can override any of them in the editor before export.
Yes. Files are UTF-8, which every current player and platform handles. Very old players that assume Windows-1251 are the only exception.
The register is inferred from the content and applied consistently. Every line remains editable side by side with the English source if you need to change it.
Common streaming guidelines allow about 42 characters per line and two lines per cue. Russian words are longer on average, so the translation shortens phrasing rather than adding a third line.
Yes. Pick a caption style and export an MP4 with the Russian subtitles burned in; it renders in your browser. Pick a style whose font covers Cyrillic and check the preview before exporting the full video.