diff --git a/examples/app/AppRus.gf b/examples/app/AppRus.gf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..febe603ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/app/AppRus.gf
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+--# -path=.:../../lib/src/chunk:../../lib/src/translator:../phrasebook/gfos
+
+concrete AppRus of App = 
+
+  TranslateRus - [
+  -- Verb
+    SlashV2a,ComplSlash, -- replaced by a more efficient inlined version
+    SlashV2V,             
+    Slash2V3, Slash3V3, SlashV2S, SlashV2Q, SlashV2A, 
+    SlashVV, SlashV2VNP,
+    AdvVPSlash, AdVVPSlash, VPSlashPrep,
+  -- Sentence
+    SlashVP, SlashVS,
+    PredSCVP, 
+    AdvSlash, SlashPrep, SlashVS,
+    EmbedS, EmbedQS, EmbedVP, RelS,
+  -- Question
+    ComplSlashIP,AdvQVP,AddAdvQVP,QuestQVP,
+  -- Idiom
+    CleftNP, CleftAdv,
+    ImpP3,
+  -- Construction
+  -- Extensions
+    PassVPSlash, PassAgentVPSlash -- not reachable anyway
+  ]
+
+  ,PhrasebookRus - [PSentence, PQuestion, PGreetingMale, PGreetingFemale, GObjectPlease, open_Adv, closed_A, open_A, cost_V]
+
+    ** open ParadigmsRus, SyntaxRus, Prelude in {
+
+flags
+  literal=Symb ;
+
+-- to suppress punctuation
+lin
+  PSentence, PQuestion = \s -> lin Text (mkUtt s) ;
+  PGreetingMale, PGreetingFemale = \s -> lin Text s ;
+  GObjectPlease o = lin Text (mkUtt o) ;
+
+  PhrasePhr p = {s = "+" ++ p.s} | p ;
+  Phrase_Chunk p = p ;
+
+
+ComplV2V v np vp = mkVP v np vp ;
+ComplV2A v np vp = mkVP v np vp ;
+ComplV2Q v np vp = mkVP v np vp ;
+ComplV2S v np vp = mkVP v np vp ;
+ComplV3  v np vp = mkVP v np vp ;
+
+
+ComplV2 v np = mkVP v np ;
+
+  PassV2 v2 = passiveVP v2 ;
+  PassV2 v2 = passiveVP v2 ;
+}
diff --git a/examples/app/Makefile b/examples/app/Makefile
index be54632ea..d556ebdf5 100644
--- a/examples/app/Makefile
+++ b/examples/app/Makefile
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ APP12=$(APP11) AppCat.pgf
 APP13=$(APP12) AppJpn.pgf
 APP14=$(APP13) AppTha.pgf
 APP15=$(APP14) AppEst.pgf
+APP16=$(APP15) AppRus.pgf
 
 # With dependencies:
 App11.pgf: $(APP11)
@@ -28,6 +29,8 @@ App14.pgf: $(APP14)
 	$(GFMKT) -name=App14 $(APP14) +RTS -K200M
 App15.pgf: $(APP15)
 	$(GFMKT) -name=App15 $(APP15) +RTS -K200M
+App16.pgf: $(APP16)
+	$(GFMKT) -name=App16 $(APP16) +RTS -K200M
 
 # Without dependencies:
 App11:
diff --git a/lib/src/chunk/ChunkRus.gf b/lib/src/chunk/ChunkRus.gf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ab5a047a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/src/chunk/ChunkRus.gf
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+concrete ChunkRus of Chunk = CatRus, ExtensionsRus [VPS,VPI] **  {
+
+}
diff --git a/lib/src/translator/ExtensionsRus.gf b/lib/src/translator/ExtensionsRus.gf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..443649d64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/src/translator/ExtensionsRus.gf
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+--# -path=.:../abstract
+
+concrete ExtensionsRus of Extensions = 
+  CatRus ** open ResRus, (E = ExtraRus), Prelude, SyntaxRus in {
+
+flags 
+  coding = utf8 ;
+
+lincat
+  VPI = {s:Str} ;
+
+}
diff --git a/lib/src/translator/TranslateRus.gf b/lib/src/translator/TranslateRus.gf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..377e292f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/src/translator/TranslateRus.gf
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+--# -path=.:../chunk:alltenses
+
+concrete TranslateRus of Translate = 
+  TenseX - [IAdv, CAdv],
+  CatRus,
+  NounRus - [PPartNP],
+  AdjectiveRus,
+  NumeralRus,
+  SymbolRus [
+    PN, Symb, String, CN, Card, NP, MkSymb, SymbPN, CNNumNP
+    ],
+  ConjunctionRus,
+  VerbRus -  [
+    UseCopula,  
+    PassV2  -- generalized in Extensions
+    ],
+  AdverbRus,
+  PhraseRus,
+  SentenceRus,
+  QuestionRus,
+  RelativeRus,
+  IdiomRus,
+  --ConstructionRus,
+  --DocumentationBul,
+
+  ChunkRus,
+  ExtensionsRus [
+    ListVPS,BaseVPS,ConsVPS,ConjVPS,ListVPI,BaseVPI,ConsVPI,ConjVPI,
+    CompoundN,AdAdV,UttAdV,ApposNP,MkVPI, MkVPS, PredVPS, PassVPSlash, PassAgentVPSlash, CompoundAP,
+    DirectComplVS, DirectComplVQ, FocusObjS,
+    PastPartAP, PastPartAgentAP, PresPartAP, GerundNP, GerundAdv,
+    WithoutVP, InOrderToVP, ByVP
+    ],
+
+  DictionaryRus ** 
+{
+
+flags
+  literal=Symb ;
+
+}
+