diff --git a/programs/write/Ru.rc b/programs/write/Ru.rc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..653d426b2cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/programs/write/Ru.rc
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+/*
+ * Russian language support
+ *
+ * Copyright 2008 Andrey Esin <andrey@esin.name>
+ *
+ * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+ * Lesser General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
+ */
+
+LANGUAGE LANG_RUSSIAN, SUBLANG_DEFAULT
+
+STRINGTABLE
+{
+    IDS_FAILED, "Не удалось запустить Wordpad"
+}
diff --git a/programs/write/rsrc.rc b/programs/write/rsrc.rc
index a854b1a52ca..540b8eac9b7 100644
--- a/programs/write/rsrc.rc
+++ b/programs/write/rsrc.rc
@@ -26,3 +26,4 @@ LANGUAGE LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL
 #include "Fr.rc"
 #include "Ko.rc"
 #include "No.rc"
+#include "Ru.rc"