What are Scavs Saying? Part 1 | Escape from Tarkov 

Not gonna lie, although I'm a native Russian speaker myself, many scav phrases leave me puzzled. Some I fail to understand at all, while in most cases, I fail to understand why would they ever say something like that in this particular situation... I decided for myself that scavs on Tarkov are not exactly sane due to high alcohol consumption and general deterioration of society

My favourite is definetly the "Zachyem blyat, cho?" (3:40) The literal translation is like "Fucking why? What?" it just has that existential questioning vibe to it. The closest comparison i can think of would be "Why are we still here, just to suffer?". The kind of question a scav would ask when he comes back with vodka to find his buddies shot and looted by PMCs.

The cultural references were definitely cool. Nice work chip.

Very good translation, well explained references. As a Russian, I can see what a great job was done there. Keep it up, comrade!)

5:23 "vishel blin za hlebushkom" translation is quite good. but there is a lot of meaning. go to buy bread is pretty common thing in russia. but this is an old meme about how pretty common thing goes horribly wrong. one example that comes to mind - some guy crossing a street and got hit by streetcar. departed head rolls to another guy that says "da, vishel blin za hlebushkom" you can hear this line when scav found a dead body.

7:15 When you call somebody "Красава/красавчик" - literal "beauty", you express your approval of their actions, or that they did their job well.

As a native Russian i can confirm that you did the translations quite well

2:42 more correctly will be "Gonna sell everything to Fence, and then we will be rich". "Заживем" (Zajiv'om) is used when you are talking about some injury or bleeding, but you can also say "Заживем как короли", which means "We will be living as a kings" and in Russian slang you can just say "Заживем"

4:05 "Может ну на хрен?" its more like a passive phrase "maybe fuck it?" He's not aggressive to someone who proposed the thing they're about to do, he's either lazy or hesitant, secretly afraid, if they are about to attack somebody.

Hello, "Cheeky Breeky palchik vykin" is not only reference to stalker. It is a kids nursery rhyme when you need to choose one kid who will try to find everyone in hide and seek for example. Every kid sit down in circle and brings two fingers in center. Then one of kids starts to count fingers saying that frase. Last finger counted on "Vykin!" get bent in fist. That lasts till the last "chosen" kid keep standing in circle. P.S. I hope I translated it correctly :)

super informative! love the cultural references baked in there that you uncovered for me.

Excellent work there, especially with all the colloquialisms and cultural references. Couldn't help but nitpick a bit, although some of that is already there in the comments. 2:41 - the "и заживём" is not about the healing process as in "рана заживёт". It's about living the high life. So it translates to "Gonna sell everything to the fence and then it's high life for us". 3:46 - "толкну" is a colloquialism meaning "I'll sell". 4:06 - It's not "maybe go fsck yourself", it's "What if we give the fsck up (on this whole gig)" 5:23 - He's quoting a joke, IIRC about a head rolling away from the tram rails, whispering "so much for a shopping trip" 6:42 - "Nah, we didn't discuss THAT with the guys" (meaning what he sees might be way above whatever he agreed to) 6:51 - "засрал" also means "fouled / stained a lot". He's complaining that his Armani pants are now real dirty because of somebody. 7:10 - again, he intends to sell / pawn whatever he looted, and then go grocery shopping. 7:12 - it's a rude way of telling that someone asks for too much. As in "Aren't you trying to stuff more up your butt than it could handle?"

As i understand as a russian, "V damki" is a reference on a chess. "Damka" or "Ferz" is a Queen, and "V damki" mean when a pawn became a queen when it reach the end of the chess board

"Ща толкну всё и в продуктовый" - "толкну" means "to push", but in this case clearly slang for "sell". The more correct translation would be "Gonna sell(move) all of this and go to the food store"

I love that you were able to include the cultural significance of some of the voice lines the scavs use. Its one thing for someone on a long duolingo streak to try to explain what theyre saying, but they cant hold a candle to the insight you give. A+ bud, thank you!

Fantastically informative video. In the past trying to find translations of these lines was met with disappointment when most native Russian speakers described these lines as “untranslatable” due to how much slang they use

Can't wait for part 2 to drop.

Can you translate the super long one where the scav just yells at you for like 40 seconds straight? Also, loved the vid. Was shocked to see how small of a channel this was when i finished and was looking for part 2

Не, я с пацанами за такое не тёр - you translated it as "grind", which is the literal meaning, but here it means "to talk", "I didn't talk with the guys about that". Not sure that in English it also has that meaning. Also the "Пацаны вообще ребята / The fellas are totally guys" is a reference to a Russian youtube meme where one guy with a bunch of typical slavs around him says that phrase ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cJdjX9sksaI.html Otherwise, great vid!

I remember when I got bored of playing alone, I joined ueft community for some team play. Its funny, coz this community mostly for english speaking people, and my native language is russian. Met many friends there, with some of them we are in contact for like 4 years straight, playing every day together. So there was on guy from NY, he said he doesnt speak russian when I asked him several times. Why several times? Coz the guy literaly learned every freaking scav quote in the game, and I was 100% he is trolling me, lol. Tarkov community is the best one, coz the game is hard and most of the players are mature, that makes it less toxic then other games community's. Thank you very much for this video, great job!

3:49 this one is more of an aggressive request to gather around instead of a threat that he can take on multiple enemies (like in the same way one might say to their buddies who are doing some dumb shit "Alright fuckers get the over here!") Or like a serious but aggressive way to say regroup to you buddies

Hello comrade! Thank you for a good translation job! Nikita Jigurda is not kind of cult icon in Russia - he's like a popular freak

"Chicky brickie, throw out your finger" is an old rhyme that we (Post-Soviet people) used in childhood to choose who will be the main villain in any game on the street

Good knowledge of russian/soviet culture. Respect 👍

great video. looking forward for part 2!!! Tarkov actually inspired me to learn cyrillic and be able to read russian at least.

You did a great job! I can't even imagine how at least approximately I would translate most of these phrases. And I was really surprised how many references you could find. Of course, as you said, even if you ask 5 people who are fluent in Russian and English they will give a different translation of these phrases, even though they will be similar. The only place where translation is slightly wrong: 6:48 - "Засрал мне штаны, сука!" In this sentence "засрал" means "ruined" or "got dirty". So it's just "You ruined my pants, bitch!"

epic! thanks for laying it out in such detail, specially with the reference commentary. 5 stars for you buddy!

I always am comforted when I hear a scav voice line as I’m investigating a sound as a player scav 😂

Suscriber 116 says, " Please do more, perhaps the Scav bosses? They seem to have Unique chatter. "

3:41 that has to be my favorite scav voice line alone with OPACHKI and cheeki breeki

I'm russian but I still managed to discover something new form this vid. I didn't know some of those references. What a great video

Great video dude, very solid translations given the highly colloquial nature of scav lines

Thank you for making this video. This was a video I was dreaming about for years!

on 2:00 line "normal'no jivem pacani" pretty good translation. jivem means we doing great. 2:41 line "skupshiku vse prodam i zajivem" same meaning "i fence it up and we gonna be great" zajivem - future tense. it might be mistaken with "zajivet" which means "will be healed"

agreed, culture references were a sweet touch, keep em coming homie

Great idea. Stellar execution.

Awesome breakdown, I learned so much!

This is an amazing video. Great edits and insights. I can only imagine how immersive this game is if you know russian. It really adds to the world building and lore that goes over non-russians speakers heads lol

Thx man, I've been lookin a lot for some of these phrases. Didnt even type them right. Respect to all forms of Life

The first time I heard it, I just had to stop doing whatever I was doing and listen how a scav cursed for a good 40 seconds straight.

I love this. Kind of makes me said though, there's so much potential for a single player game with subtitles and all.

Awesome work! Would love to see more!

This was fun to watch great video

8 and a half minutes of chilling :D good job, and thanks for that

"Pacani voobshe rebyata" is reference to old meme "пацаны вообще ребята"

6:53 "Fellas, totally, guys" or "пацаны, вообще, ребята" - is a reference to a viral video where teenagers doing flips and some drunk guys are watching off to the side complimenting them 7:16 - "Especially that dude over there in the whit..." or "Особенно вот тот в белом..." could also be said that is taken from that video. The video in question is " пацаны вообще ребята " if anyone is interested, don't want to be posting links n shit.

Really enjoyed this. Been super curious what they've been saying.

Super well made and informative. Know im late but hope you keep it up

Loved this! Always wondered what they're going on about!

If there’s any Russian that I’ve learned it’s the terrifying sound of “grenado” when you pull up on the boss’s in the open😂

«Чики-брики-пальчик-выкинь» not from a stalker, chiki bricks is an old child's game with fingers. Children make a circle from their fingers and start counting from a certain finger: “Chiki-briki-finger-throw away.” On whose finger they stopped, he removes. The game continues until all fingers are removed. So this is a way of drawing lots to choose someone one. "Считалка" it's like Icka bicka soda cracker Icka bicka boo! Icka bicka soda cracker, Out goes you!

Very cool video, It’s cool for the voice lines to be broken down

Thumbs up right away. THIS is helpful and entertaining. I really wanted to know this for sometime.

7:15 "especially that dude over there in white is a fucking beauty" 6:53 "fellas, totally, guys..." this is a reference to a famous russian internet meme video with drunk gopniks that act themselves kind of nice (because they are, yeah, drunk)

Awesome video mate, thanks!

Nice catch with the Diamond arm reference! A must watch for people curious about Soviet Cinema! A great movie all around.

You won't believe me, but i wake up this morning with idea, that it would be great if someone will make a video about scav's and bosses votes. And this got in my recommendations. Kind of scary, guess YT just read my mind.

no idea how this doesn't have more views.

They seem like fun guys to hang out with.

I don't know why but that soft guitar in the background really sets the tone well

You can really see the amount of work put into this video, was super interesting! Very surprised at your sub count, looks like I am your 331st haha

Love your channel, boss!

guitar soundtrack in the background is from stalker anomaly,talented chip youre a man of culture

As a russian, I think scav's lines are really complicated to translate into English correctly because some of these phrases don't have any equivalents.

6:52 "Pacany vashe rebyata" is reference to russian meme video published in 2011 where some guys commenting on parkour tricks and saying those phrases. It can be found by pasting "Пацаны ваще ребята" in search.

This is amazing, thank you.

This video was more interesting than I expected.

The one I hear the most is “Ey je mliyat chikipakichikipaki”

Cyrillic and English is so vastly alien to each other that there isn’t any possible way of making a “correct” explanation

man, this was great

Love it! good job)

6:40 "я с пацанами за такое (об этом) не тёр" - "i havent talk about this with the guys". "Перетереть" generally means to talk about the important stuff, negotiate, find a common ground, strike a deal.

Dope man, I had no idea the skavs talked about so much

tanks a lot i've been very curious to know

As a native Russian speaker i can honestly say that you did an amazing job keep it up!

This is golden! Btw: Do you know of any links or something to the cultural references, songs and such? I need some extra motivation! :D

This video is so great!!

Thanks! I always wondered what they were saying

5:33 I thought he said, "I know you're in the miner" :D

Nice vid, it was really interesting to see what scavs are saying, ill try to remember their phrases when i hear them in game.

I don't know why , but I really enjoyed this video! the part about bruised ribs even made me feel bad for them :)

It always makes me laugh when I remember that some of the english speakers heard scavs saying like: divide my cheeks or something [ слышат как дикий говорит - раздвинь мои булки ]

good stuff!

Great video sir!

This is super cool because it actually gives context for a lot of what they are saying. The cultural connections are cool to know about

As someone, who is learning Russian, I found myself using the "Pizdariki na vozdushnom shariki!" and "Normas, normas!" at work at an alarmingly large scale, ever since I came in contact with the game. Hell, even my coworkers know now what do these lines mean!

Thanks for that, I don't know why nobody did that before !

My favorite line is at 2:27 just because of how it's said

great work) good references

Didnt even realize cheeki breeki was from stalker lol, awesome video man

thx for your time :)

i just subscribed bratohska i always wanted to know what the scavs are saying, please do continue this work on other games with russian dialogues.

Very interesting video thanks! I think the voice lines in this game are overly awesome, especially the bosses rogues and raiders are so intimidating that i freeze more often than i would fight just because of their taunting remarks

Thanks for a Chukovsky - i am absolutely forgot where it came from - Chukovsky was my childhood best books. And everything you said - is legit. You did your home work, but you forgot about ЭЭЭЭЭЭЭЭЭЭЭЭЭЙ СЛУЖИВЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЙ

Nikita should make a separate series of 2 best friend drunk scavs comedy on the daily life of tarkov

Pleasantly surprised. I agree with most of the translations you gave, the fact is, there are not 1-for-1 translations to English from Russian, yet many foreigners still think it's the case. All of my friends are Native Russian speakers, and I'm kind of a hipster so I try to never hear anything from foreigners at all about the language, culture, history, but even I got some hints - diamond arm for example. Must be cool to have some expensive "degree" in Russian Language, but I'd rather learn from the people any day. You might technically have greater flexibility in a range of situations - but I get the laughs, complements and disbelief that I'm from America.

Scavs are pretty funny and alive fellas, I love how BSG portaraited them. In fact, the very essence of these characters lies in their original name - "дикие", or "wildlings". Such a shame they are all became "scavengers" in translation. Of course they are scavenging now, but in fact they are ordinary people of the lower class of society, stranded in a difficult situation because of the incident. I think you can even feel sorry for them in that way. Of course they do bad things, but somehow it's a matter of survival. It is more a question of the causes and tragedy of man's descent into a brutal beast, actually. No one seems to have commented on the 4:05 moment (or maybe I am blind, sorry then). The first part of the phrase "может ну его на хрен?" means "maybe we should just give up on it" or "maybe we shouldn't (go there / do that)". In that case "на хрен" litteraly stands for "screw that". The character expresses doubts about the event, or even show cowardice in front of his comrades, and then in order not to fall in their eyes, reduces it all to a joke. Actually, the phrase makes sense even when no one is around, in which case the character is anxious and frightened, and by reducing everything to a joke and a trifle in the second part he tries to cheer himself up. Just a nervous muttering, basicaly. I can't describe what "Пацаны ваще ребята!" (6:53) exactly mean, because it sounds dumb even on Russian, haha. This is a reference to an old viral video and meme. With these words, the drunk gopnik tried to express to the cameraman his delight in the little sports doing parkour-style stunts in the yard. The popularity of the phrase lies in this very snarky attempt of a poorly educated man in alcoholic intoxication to string words together. What adds to the absurdity of the situation is the confidence with which he speaks this nonsense. You may express your endorsement with that one about somebody, or something they have done. Either to mock ironically at someone else's failure, which will also work. His brother-in-booze next to him concluded with a more concise and succinct sentence: "Чётко. Заебись." ("Cool. Awesome.", but in a slightly rude manner) P.S.: Oh, yes, that one about "the guy in white" came from that meme too. Anyway, you've done a great job! Appreciate that.

My favorite line is "ah, so... you good?" Always makes me smile.

I needed that.

Cheeki breeki isn't from stalker, it's a legit thing kind of like eenie meenie miny mo for English speakers. "pal'chik" means finger, and people hold out a finger, sometimes 2 I believe and somebody goes around a taps them saying cheeki breeki pal'chik vikin', forgive the spelling, as each sentence ends, whichever finger it ends on is closed back into the fist and whoever remains at the end is "it" or whatever. Also the phrase in stalker is cheeki breeki i v damke, not sure the exact meaning of that as most Russian people I asked didn't seem to know if i'm honest Source: I lived in Russia and asked, this is what was explained to me that people did as children. Could be regional though too, it's a big place.