I am out of my wheelhouse here but you may be on to something with your Cyrillic diagnosis.
If you create a new Windows Admin account:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/manage-user-accounts-in-windows-104dc19f-6430-4b49-6a2b-e4dbd1dcdf32
Set the language to English (or other non-Cyrillic language you are comfortable with), create a new save game in a non-Cyrillic folder location, does the issue still reproduce?
If the game still crashes, are you submitting the crash report when the window pops up for it under the email was have on file for you:
********[email protected]
You also seem to be on an older version of the game. Please to a 'verify' in the Steam client and post the version it updates you to

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager