So my problem is, because of some sort of a bug I have to disable all keyboard layouts except English to use some application, because they don't recognize Russian letters probably. So before I launch these apps I always have to go to keyboard settings and remove Russian layout, and when I'm done I switch it back.
Is there any way to write a script which will switch it for me? I mean, I have to know where files with keyboard configuration are, or some commands like setxkbmap?

Distro: KDE Neon 5.11(Ubuntu 16.04)

So first script that I did is this

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#!/bin/bash
# Change keyboard layout

if [ "$(setxkbmap -v | awk -F "+" '/symbols/ {print $2}')" = "us" ]; then
    setxkbmap ru
else
    setxkbmap us
fi


But I'm not sure if it's a right way to do it in KDE...

You shouldn't have to write any scripts. If you go into the settings

Hardware > Input Devices > Keyboard
and then select the Layouts tab

you can assign shortcuts to change to a different keyboard layout. It might take a bit of fiddling to get it right.