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This study discusses aspects and features of K-contents’ fan translation in Russia. Specific objectives of this research include: looking into fan communities and web-sites that provide fan translation of audio-video contents, and the activities of fan-sub groups (FSG) who work for fan translation, and examining features of Russian fan translation of K-drama. Based on the findings, the study analyzes external and internal features of the Russian fan translation, and compares them with the features of US’s fan translation of Japanese animations and Korean fan translation of the US TV drama. It is reported that currently in Russia there are more than 100,000 online web-sites or communities that provide Korean wave video contents. Despite such a high popularity and demand on Korean fan translation contents in Russia, there is no study about Russia’s fan translation. Paying attention to this unbalance calling for urgent need for research, this study analyzes not only aspects and features of Russian fan translation, but also related overall fan society. This study is meaningful in that it is the first research that studies fan translation and its fan communities in Russia and analyzes their features and compares with other countries’ fan translation. Hopefully, this study would contribute to the study about the trend of Korean wave and, further, about fan translation in Russia.