Interpreting for Senator Richard Lugar during his meeting
with Russian business leaders
RETIRED
CERTIFICATION
American Translators Association
Judicial Council of California
PERSONAL PROFILE
Born in Moscow, into a multilingual family of three generations of renowned linguists. Personally trained in English language and translation skills by E. E. Israilevich, one of the founders and professor at the Academy of Foreign Trade of the USSR, the well-known linguist, scholar and author of the first English grammar textbook published in the USSR. Master's degree in architecture. American citizen; living in San Francisco since 1987.
SERVICES
Translation (English into Russian and Russian into
English)
Certified translation of documents in compliance with requirements
of USCIS,
U.S.A. courts, medical boards, schools, colleges, and
universities
Interpreting (consecutive, simultaneous, voice-over)
Editing (Russian only)
Localization and Cultural Adjustment
Linguistic Analysis and Research
Cross-cultural Consulting
EXPERIENCE
Translation
Twenty five years in translation for a variety of topics for government, corporate, and private clients. Certified translation of academic records and legal and business documents; linguistic analysis of company and product names; localization and cultural adjustment of marketing materials. Published author of literary and legal translations from Russian and English.
Court Interpreting
Twenty years of experience interpreting for depositions, arbitration and trials in criminal and civil courts, including business, intellectual property and real estate disputes, divorce, adoptions, personal injury, workers' compensation. Provided services to The Hague Permanent Court of Arbitration, The London Court of International Arbitration, U.S. Federal Court, Superior Court of California, INS/USCIS, San Francisco District Attorney's and Public Defender's Offices, and major national and international law firms.
Conference & Delegation Interpreting
Classroom interpreter for USAID and USIA educational programs. Delegation interpreter for Russian business leaders in meetings with Secretary of State Colin Powell and members of the U.S. Senate and Congress, including Richard Lugar, Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Richard Gephardt, and others. Interpreted for world-famous musician Mstislav Rostropovich, poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and many other high-profile political and cultural figures.
Cross-Cultural Consulting & Facilitation
Program coordinator and group facilitator for educational programs sponsored by USAID and USIA, Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Center for International Studies at California State University, Kaiser Permanente International, Asia Foundation, Earth Island Institute, and others.
Management
Department Manager, Translation and Cross-cultural Communication Department for USAID sponsored program providing business management training to new Russian entrepreneurs. Assistant Director for International Programs, Climate of Trust, a Russian-American program for legal professionals and public officials designed to combat hate crime and promote ethnic and religious tolerance.
Legal & History Research
Office of the Attorney General, California Department of Justice: assisting attorneys and experts in preparing, reviewing and analyzing documents used in investigation and litigation involving the electricity and natural gas market in California. Other projects included assisting in researching and translating into English of a large volume of historical and legal documents concerning the history of foreign concessions in Russia.
Selected Publications
Whence Did It All Come: Two Contracts, Girls in Socks, and the Great Turning Point, in Detroit-Moscow-Detroit: An Architecture for Industrialization, 1917-1945, eds. J-L. Cohen, C.E. Crawford, C. Zimmerman, The MIT Press (2023) (author)
The Soviet Problem with Two ‘Unknowns’: How an American Architect and a Soviet Negotiator Jump-Started the Industrialization of Russia. Part I: Albert Kahn. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, vol. 36 (2), 2010: 57-80 (author)
The Soviet Problem with Two ‘Unknowns’: How an American Architect and a Soviet Negotiator Jump-Started the Industrialization of Russia. Part II: Saul Bron. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, vol. 37 (1/2), 2011: 5-28 (author)
Jewish Artists in the Soviet Non-Conformist Art Movement of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum (author)
Lloyd George, Lenin and Cannibals: The Harriman Arbitration, by V. V. Veeder QC. International Commercial Arbitration, No. 2, 3, Moscow (translation)
Chancellor Wirth and Mologoles Concession, by V. V. Veeder QC. The Herald of International Commercial Arbitration, 1(3), Moscow (translation)
Unexpected Joy, by Bulat Okudjava. ICARUS, Rosen Publishing, New York (translation)
Forbidden Fruit, by Fazil Iskander. TWO LINES 2000, San Francisco (translation)
Little Soldier, by Chingiz Aitmatov. Formations, Northwestern Univ. Press (translation)
The Myth of Pavlik Morozov, by Yury Druzhnikov. ICARUS, Rosen Publishing, New York (translation)
End of Empire: New Works from the Former Soviet Union. Rosen Publishing, New York (editor)
(See Sample Translations for complete list.)
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