B747 DEP FROM KHABAROVSK; RUSSIA MAKES INCORRECT TURN.

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WHILE ON REFUELING STOP AT KHABAROVSK; RUSSIA; AN ARPT OPS AGENT CAME ON BOARD THE ACFT AND BRIEFED THE EXPECTED DEP: 'RWY 23L; MAINTAIN RWY HEADING UNTIL CLBING THROUGH 200 METERS; THEN L TURN TO HI RADIO BEACON; THEN DIRECT ARBIT INTXN.' WHILE TAXIING FOR TKOF; THE TWR CTLR GAVE AN AMENDED CLRNC: 'RWY HEADING; CLB TO 1500 METERS; NO TURN BEFORE 1.4 KILOMETERS; THEN R TURN ON COURSE TO ARBIT.' I COPIED THIS CLRNC ON THE MASTER FLT PLAN AND READ IT BACK TO THE TWR; WHICH ROGERED THE READBACK. THE CAPT AND FE WERE ALSO MONITORING THE RADIO AND UNDERSTOOD THE CLRNC. AS PF; I TOOK OFF AND REMAINED ON RWY HEADING UNTIL PASSING THE 'UF' RADIO BEACON (WHICH IS DEPICTED ON THE COMMERCIAL CHART; 10-3A PAGE AS BEING 2 NM BEYOND THE RWY'S DEP END). I THEN STARTED THE R TURN. DEP CTL XMITTED 'FLY RWY HEADING. 'WHEN WE LANDED; KHABAROVSK HAD RELAYED THAT OUR CLRNC HAD BEEN 'NO TURN BEFORE 14 KILOMETERS;' AND I TURNED BEFORE THEN. I BELIEVE THE HVY RUSSIAN ACCENT OF THE TWR CTLR LED TO THE MISUNDERSTOOD CLRNC. 3 CREW MEMBERS UNDERSTOOD 1.4 KM; WHEN EVIDENTIALLY 14 KM WAS ISSUED. AS A SUGGESTION; A CLRNC OF 'MAINTAIN RWY HEADING; EXPECT RADAR VECTORS ARBIT' WOULD MINIMIZE THE POSSIBLE LANGUAGE CONFUSION. THE LATE CHANGE OF CLRNC WHILE NEARING THE RWY ALSO INCREASED THE POSSIBILITY OF CONFUSION.