SELECT 
  cscart_product_feature_variants.variant_id, 
  cscart_product_feature_variants.position, 
  cscart_product_feature_variants.color, 
  cscart_product_feature_variant_descriptions.variant 
FROM 
  cscart_product_feature_variants 
  LEFT JOIN cscart_product_feature_variant_descriptions ON cscart_product_feature_variants.variant_id = cscart_product_feature_variant_descriptions.variant_id 
  AND cscart_product_feature_variant_descriptions.lang_code = 'ru' 
WHERE 
  cscart_product_feature_variants.variant_id IN (
    5915, 5940, 5913, 5912, 5903, 5909, 5901, 
    1230, 5907, 5914, 1199, 1241, 1255, 
    1254, 1425, 5916, 1280
  ) 
ORDER BY 
  cscart_product_feature_variants.position ASC, 
  cscart_product_feature_variant_descriptions.variant ASC

Query time 0.00240

JSON explain

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          "filtered": 100,
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        },
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          "possible_keys": ["PRIMARY"],
          "key": "PRIMARY",
          "key_length": "9",
          "used_key_parts": ["variant_id", "lang_code"],
          "ref": [
            "noframes_angrybeaver.cscart_product_feature_variants.variant_id",
            "const"
          ],
          "rows": 1,
          "filtered": 100,
          "attached_condition": "trigcond(cscart_product_feature_variant_descriptions.lang_code = 'ru')"
        }
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    }
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