Localized Time Axis by mbostock

This example uses d3.timeFormatDefaultLocale to change the locale of d3-axis. A more flexible approach is to use d3.timeFormatLocale.

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<svg width="960" height="500"></svg>
<script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js"></script>
<script>

var svg = d3.select("svg"),
    margin = {top: 250, right: 40, bottom: 250, left: 40},
    width = svg.attr("width") - margin.left - margin.right,
    height = svg.attr("height") - margin.top - margin.bottom;

d3.json("https://unpkg.com/d3-time-format@2/locale/ru-RU.json", function(error, locale) {
  if (error) throw error;

  d3.timeFormatDefaultLocale(locale);

  var x = d3.scaleTime()
      .domain([new Date(2000, 0, 1), new Date(2001, 0, 1)])
      .range([0, width]);

  svg.append("g")
      .attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")")
      .call(d3.axisBottom(x));
});

</script>