Cant add second language to the main menu

Hi! I've successfully added 2 languages to my site, create 2 additional menues and localized all the modules. I've used this article in the process https://www.gavick.com/documentation/jo ... joomla-1-7. The last thing to do is to localize the side menu. How can I do that? I can either add simple menu as a block (works great, but I want side menu as in the template), or change menu in the template settings to the localized one. Thanks for your help!

I've found the solution, may be it will help others.
You have to modify layouts\default.php, change

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$this->asidemenu->loadMenu($this->API->get('menu_name','mainmenu'));


to

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$lang = JFactory::getLanguage();
$currentlang = substr($lang->getTag(), 0, 2);
$this->asidemenu->loadMenu('homemenu'. $currentlang);


There should be 2 menues:
- homemenuen
- homemenuru
("en" and "ru" are language codes, first 2 chars)