Russian-speaking businesses in San Francisco — 24 listings, 7 verified

The Russian-speaking Bay Area is not downtown San Francisco. Richmond District and the Inner Sunset still hold older walk-up offices; Daly City and South San Francisco are where a lot of families actually live. Across the bridges, San Jose, Sunnyvale and Santa Clara mix tech-family clinics with insurance desks that already know an H-1B file. Oakland and Berkeley show up for a restaurant or a lawyer, not the school run. People drive 280 and 101 more than they take BART for a dental chair.

Demand is medical, insurance, real estate and immigration tied to employers. A Russian-speaking internist who takes a Kaiser or a PPO, a broker who has written offers in Daly City and the Peninsula, and a Saturday school in a church hall are the cards that get saved. Auto and home trades garage cheaper south of the city. Featured on SlavList is paid Promoted placement, three per subcategory. Verified is a phone, an address and a California license check where the trade carries a number.