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Russian YouTube Transcript

Paste a YouTube link to get its transcript in Russian (Русский). Videos with Russian captions show them directly; any other video is translated into Russian, with the original above each line. Free, no sign-up.

How to get a YouTube transcript in Russian

  1. 1

    Copy the video link

    Any YouTube video, Short, or finished livestream, in Russian or any other language.

  2. 2

    Paste it above

    If the video has Russian captions you get them as they are. If not, the transcript is translated into Russian automatically.

  3. 3

    Copy, compare, or download

    Turn on Show original to see each line next to its source, then copy the text or download a Russian TXT or SRT file.

Russian captions or a Russian translation

Russian videos usually have Cyrillic auto-captions, and long-form interviews and lectures are especially well covered. When a video has no Russian track, the tool machine-translates the transcript, which is accurate enough to follow along, study, or search. For publishing, have a Russian speaker review it.

Learn Russian with YouTube

Read a video's Russian captions with your own language underneath, click any line to replay it, and download the bilingual transcript to study offline. Pick videos with creator-uploaded captions for the most accurate text.

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Need transcripts at scale? Use the API

The same transcripts are available through the YouTube Transcript API: timestamped JSON, text, SRT, VTT, CSV, or Markdown, 150+ languages, and AI transcription for videos without captions. Or connect the YouTube MCP server to Claude, Cursor, or Codex and just paste links in chat.

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Common questions

How do I get a Russian transcript of a YouTube video?

Paste the link above. The tool uses the video's Russian captions when it has them and translates the transcript into Russian when it doesn't.

Can I translate an English video into Russian?

Yes. Any video's transcript can be translated into Russian. Turn on Show original to read both languages line by line, and download them together as a bilingual SRT or TXT.

Can I download Russian subtitles?

Yes. After the transcript loads, click SRT or VTT for a Russian subtitle file with the original timings.

Are Russian auto-captions accurate?

Russian videos usually have Cyrillic auto-captions, and long-form interviews and lectures are especially well covered. Clear speech with little background noise gives the best results.

Is it free?

Yes. A few videos a day need no account, and signing in with Google raises the limit.