Translation and localization industry companies in Russia are not required to publish financial results. Translationrating.ru offers them to disclose the data and confirm it volunatrily. Hense, the ranking includes the most transparent market players. The following list of the largest Russian translation companies 2013 has been compiled based on an open survey, in which 114 companies took part. 

  — marks the companies that are willing to provide proof of revenue

  — the company has provided the proof

Please write to konstantin@translationrating.ru if you spot errors or incorrect data.

	Name	Revenue in 2013	Growth	Headquarters	Founded in	Employees
1	Janus Worldwide	$13.84 m	5,9%	Moscow	1996	232
2	EGO Translating	$13.4 m	6%	Saint Petersburg	1990	215
3	ABBYY Language Services	$13.1 m	14.8%	Moscow	2004	159
4	Logrus International	$10.05 m		Moscow	1993	150
5	TLS Company	$8.5 m	18.00%	Moscow	2000	192
6	Neotech	$6 m	27.6%	Moscow	1991	129
7	Translink	more than $6 m		Moscow	2003	203
8	ROID Translation Company	more than $6 m		Moscow	1998	62
9	Traktat	$5.6 m	43.5%	Moscow	2000	140
10	AG .translate	$3.5 m	29%	Moscow	2004	36
11	Perewod.Ru	$3.5 m	9%	Moscow	2002	29
12	Palex	$3.4 m	9.6%	Tomsk	2002	77
13	Profperevod	$3.13 m	22.2%	Moscow	2000	45
14	Megatext	$3 m	-3.3%	Moscow	2005	52
15	All Correct Language Services	$2.93 m	33.7%	Samara	2006	47
16	AKM West	$2.9 m	3.5%	Moscow	1999	43
17	Medconsult	$2.88 m		Moscow	2003	40
18	TechInput	$2.69 m	73.5%	Moscow	2002	40
19	Tolmach	$2.56 m	11.3%	Moscow	1997	30
20	Alpha and Omega	$2.5 m	25%	Moscow	1991	15
21	Prima Vista	$2.3 m	9.5%	Chelyabinsk	1999	33
22	Effectiff	$2 – $4 m		Moscow	1998	37
23	Moscow Translation Agency	$2 – $4 m		Moscow	2006	25
24	Alphabet Translation Centre	$2 – $4 m		Saint Petersburg	2000	25
25	Li-Terra	$1.89 m	11.7%	Saint Petersburg	2006	61
26	iTrex	$1.6 m	41.6%	Moscow	2006	13
27	ITI	$1.3 m		Moscow	1992	58
28	Delovoyazyk	$1.13 m	61.4%	Moscow	1988	25
29	Benevox	$1 m	11.1%	Saint Petersburg	2003	12
30	Fonetix	$1 — $2 m		Moscow	1988	52
31	ALEAN	$1 — $2 m		Kaluga	1997	32
32	Exprimo	$1 — $2 m		Moscow	2006	24
33	Perevod-Piter	$1 — $2 m		Saint Petersburg	2004	11
34	Interlingua	$1 — $2 m		Moscow	2002	10
35	Proflingua	$1 — $2 m		Moscow	2009	23
36	Nowitex	$0.9 m	28.5%	Moscow	2001	20
37	London-Moscow	$0.8 m	0.00%	Moscow	2004	15
38	Eclectic Translations	$0.69 m	-30.1%	Saint Petersburg	2009	8
39	Norma-TM	$0,6 m	33.3%	Moscow	2000	27
40	Apriori	$0.6 m	25%	Moscow	2006	7
41	Trans-lit	$0.52 m	4%	Yekatrinburg	2008	14
42	Globus-M	$0.5 – $1 m		Kazan	2002	40
43	Avanta Translating	$0.5 – $1 m		Chelyabinsk	1987	29
44	MED.Solution	$0.5 – $1 m		Moscow	2007	22
45	Express	$0,5 – $1 m		Kaluga	2003	20
46	Transvertum	$0.5 – $1 m		Moscow	2008	17
47	Golden Hind	$0.5 – $1 m		Moscow	2002	14
48	Lingvo Service	$0.5 – $1 m		Rostov-on-Don	2008	11
49	Alba Translating	$0.5 – $1 m		Nizhny Novgorod	1997	11
50	Angira	$0.5 – $1 m		Moscow	2007	11
51	ProLing	$0.5 – $1 m		Moscow	2012	9
52	Perevodural.ru (BBAT)	$0.5 – $1 m		Yekatrinburg	1994	8
53	Levsha	$0.5 – $1 m		Moscow	2009	7
54	Tran-express	$0.48 m	26.3%	Saint Petersburg	2008	10
55	Abico Global	$0.46 m	21%	Saint Petersburg	2010	11
56	Intent	$0.454 m	32.3%	Moscow	1993	14
57	EnRus	$0.399 m		Moscow	1992	7
58	Alba Longa	$0.3 m	0%	Saint Petersburg	2008	8
59	Magditrans	$0.3 m	0%	Makhachkala	2002	3
60	Koine Translation Company	$0.261 m	73%	Pushkino - Moscow region	2009	10
61	Nashperevod.ru	$0.22 m		Dubna - Moscow region	2008	8
62	Business Solutions	$0.22 m	220%	Voronezh	2012	5
63	itbFirst	$0.2 m		Kolomna	2006	15
64	Passo Avanti	$0.2 m	53.8%	Yekaterinburg	2008	6
65	Remarka	$0.2 m	0%	Krasnodar	2001	4
66	Euro Space	$0.064 m		Yekaterinburg	2004	6
67	Unitrans / Perevodmsk	under $0.5 m		Ulyanovsk	2006	24
68	DataBridge	under $0.5 m	28%	Ivanovo	2005	12
69	Yes We Can!	under $0.5 m	44%	Saint Petersburg	2010	12
70	DVBP - Far East Translation Center	under $0.5 m		Khabarovsk	2009	11
71	Lingvo Pro	under $0.5 m		Moscow	2006	10
72	Ritex	under $0.5 m		Vladivostok	1999	10
73	Alliance Pro	under $0.5 m		Tomsk	2006	9
74	TranScript	under $0.5 m		Saint Petersburg	2006	9
75	Vebber Translation Agency	under $0.5 m		Moscow	2006	9
76	Libra	under $0.5 m		Moscow	1992	9
77	Tatarstan Chamber of Commerse Translators' Guild	under $0.5 m		Kazan	2003	7
78	Yazykoved	under $0.5 m		Moscow	2006	6
79	Business Translation Company	under $0.5 m		Nizhny Novgorod	2006	6
80	Lingua Plus	under $0.5 m		Lipetsk	2007	5
81	Turianski&Wolfsson Translation Experts	under $0.5 m		Yekaterinburg	2007	5
82	Lingua Garant	under $0.5 m		Moscow	2010	5
83	Alpha Translation Company	under $0.5 m		Kazan	2006	4
84	Argonaut	under $0.5 m		Saint Petersburg	1997	3
85	TranslateIt	under $0.5 m		Izhevsk	2001	3
86	Moderato Pro	under $0.5 m		Yekaterinburg	2011	2
87	Even Translations	under $0.5 m		Novosibirsk	2012	2
88	Diplomat	under $0.5 m		Omsk	2011	2

Ranking method

1. Companies are sorted by revenue expressed in US dollars, where one $ equals 31,90 Russian roubles (average daily exchange rate for 2013). Revenues include core services, such as translation and interpreting and other services such as DTP, language training, voiceovers, selling translation software, linguistic testing, verification of translations by a notary and providing apostille.
2. In cases when revenues of several participants matched, the number of employees has been used to calculate rank.
3. The participants of the survey had been offered to disclose their revenues and back the data up by official documents. Those who declined had an option to specify a revenue range rather than a specific figure. Companies that disclosed a revenue range are ranked by its lower bracket, i.e. a $3 m company that specified a revenue range of $2 — 4 m was ranked as if it had $2 m in revenues. 

Other significant market players

The following companies did not participate in the survey in 2013, however they are listed here to provide a more complete overview of the market

Name	выручка	Data	Source	Specialization
TransTech	more than $6.5 m	2012	Spark*	defense, technical
Vosstaniya 6	more than $4 m	2013	estimate	retail
Dialect City	more than $2 m	2012	survey	technical, SMB
Russian Translation Company	more than $2 m	2011	survey	interpreting for government bodies and media
Proftranslating	more than $1.5 m	2012	Spark*	defense industry
Petro-Service	$1.56 m	2013	interview	technical, defense
AUM	$0.5-2 m	2012	survey	localization
Star-Spb	$0.5-2 m	2012	survey	technical

* Spark  — data obtained via spark-interfax.ru, default source: Unified State Register of Legal Entities (ЕГРЮЛ)

 

Data veficiation methods

1. Telephone and email interviewing
2. Visiting company HQs in person and visual estimation of the number of employees
3. Comparing to Unified State Register of Legal Entities data;
4. Calculating revenue by employee;
5. Interviewing competitors;
6. Requesting proof from companies.

Participants whose data is deemed highly doubtful have not been included.

Translationrating.ru author expresses gratitude to freelance translators  Katya Filatova and Sarah McDowell.

GRÖSSTE RUSSISCHE ÜBERSETZUNGSUNTERNEHMEN 2013, 2013 年最大的那幾間俄語翻譯公司, ロシアの上位翻訳会社2013