diff --git a/spacy/tests/conftest.py b/spacy/tests/conftest.py
index c52b1941b..ae8401e54 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/conftest.py
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ def th_tokenizer():
 
 @pytest.fixture
 def ru_tokenizer():
+    pymorphy = pytest.importorskip('pymorphy2')
     return util.get_lang_class('ru').Defaults.create_tokenizer()