Russification noun4 •The process of making anything Russian.As a schoolboy in the Soviet Ukraine's second largest city of Kharkiv, (it was then spelled Kharkov in line with the all-permeating 'Russification'), I was a railway buff. — 2024 •A policy that enforces traditional Russian values either domestically or internationally. •Localization of a software or hardware interface (e.g. text on buttons of a washing machine) into the Russian language, whether using Cyrillic or transliteration. See Computer Russification. •(rare) Enabling a computer system to work with the Russian Cyrillic alphabet.