Magento 2 Russian Language Pack

Magento 2 Russian Language Pack enables you to customize the existing language and adjust to Russian Language, that is really perfect tool to localize your store in Russia. This package will allow you to convert all words and phrases from both the frontend and the backend into the Russian Language. The translation is contributed by Translation Project at Crowdin website.

Today, in Magento 2 Russian Language Pack topic, I will instruct you to download and install the package. After all, the automatic translation is implemented right after you activate Russian (Russia) option in Store > Configuration > Locale Options.

Other language packages are available at language packs page

1. Download Russian Language Pack

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Russian Pack

2. Process

Russian language pack

Help the Magento Community by contributing translation to this project.

3. How to Install Russian Language Pack

Method #1. Install via Composer

Install the Russian language pack via composer is really easier.

Install Russian pack:

composer require mageplaza/magento-2-russian-language-pack:dev-master
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy ru_RU
php bin/magento indexer:reindex
php bin/magento cache:clean
php bin/magento cache:flush

You may get this message:

Install Magento 2 extensions from Marketplace

=> Go to Access Keys page and Create A New Access Key.

Or use these keys:

Public Key: c7af1bfc9352e9c986637eec85ed53af
Private Key: 17e1b72ea5f0b23e9dbfb1f68dc12b53

Update Russian pack:

composer update mageplaza/magento-2-russian-language-pack:dev-master
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy ru_RU
php bin/magento indexer:reindex
php bin/magento cache:clean
php bin/magento cache:flush

Method #2. Install via command line

Install the Russian language pack via command line.

Download the language file to your installation root directory. Now run the following command:

wget https://github.com/mageplaza/magento-2-russian-language-pack/raw/master/ru_RU.csv
php bin/magento i18n:pack -m replace ru_RU.csv ru_RU
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy ru_RU
php bin/magento cache:flush

As a result, a directory language pack will be created, which contains the proper structure of language files for your installation. Copy it over to your Magento installation and the translation should be visible.

Note: additional directory i18n contains strings for which the module could not be found in your installation. This file can be skipped.

4. How to activate the language pack

It’s time to activate the language pack for your Magento 2 store. From Magento 2 admin panel, navigate to Stores > Configuration > General > Locale Options Magento 2 Russian language pack Select Russian (Russia) and click Save Configuration