Lingvo

@LingvoBot does one thing and does it precisely: it looks up individual Russian and English words against what its own description calls the "best quality dictionary from ABBYY" — the company behind the well-known Lingvo dictionary line. Send it a word (it handles up to two at a time) in either language and it returns dictionary-grade entries rather than a generic machine-translation guess, which matters if you want the actual range of meanings, not just the one a statistical model picked as most likely.

That precision comes with a hard limit: this is not a sentence or paragraph translator. If you paste a full sentence, don't expect a coherent translation back — the bot is built around lookups, not text-to-text translation, so pair it with a general translator for anything longer than a phrase. There's no visible sign-up flow or user-count badge on its Telegram profile, and it isn't clear how actively it's maintained, but the underlying word data doesn't need frequent updates to stay useful the way a news bot would.

For students, translators, or anyone who wants a fast, reliable word-level check without opening a separate dictionary site or app, it's a narrow but genuinely useful free tool — just don't mistake it for a full translator.