diff --git a/cinderclient/apiclient/base.py b/cinderclient/apiclient/base.py
index 3ae5dff7b..e1f611cf7 100644
--- a/cinderclient/apiclient/base.py
+++ b/cinderclient/apiclient/base.py
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import six
 from six.moves.urllib import parse
 
 from cinderclient.apiclient import exceptions
+from oslo_utils import encodeutils
 from oslo_utils import strutils
 
 
@@ -496,7 +497,7 @@ class Resource(RequestIdMixin):
                 # In this case we already defined the attribute on the class
                 continue
             except UnicodeEncodeError:
-                pass
+                setattr(self, encodeutils.safe_encode(k), v)
             self._info[k] = v
 
     def __getattr__(self, k):
diff --git a/cinderclient/tests/unit/test_base.py b/cinderclient/tests/unit/test_base.py
index 91f96baf3..ce8d9e40b 100644
--- a/cinderclient/tests/unit/test_base.py
+++ b/cinderclient/tests/unit/test_base.py
@@ -48,6 +48,16 @@ class BaseTest(utils.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual("<Resource baz=spam, foo=bar>", repr(r))
         self.assertNotIn("x_openstack_request_ids", repr(r))
 
+    def test_add_non_ascii_attr_to_resource(self):
+        info = {'gigabytes_тест': -1,
+                'volumes_тест': -1,
+                'id': 'admin'}
+
+        res = base.Resource(None, info)
+
+        for key, value in info.items():
+            self.assertEqual(value, getattr(res, key, None))
+
     def test_getid(self):
         self.assertEqual(4, base.getid(4))