Background:

born 1966 in Russia

Education and Career:
1989-91 German teacher in Kirov region (Russia)

1991-93 journalist with the weekly newspaper "Vybor" in Kirov

1990-95 Theatre Studies at the State Karpenko-Kary Institute of Theatre Arts (Kiev, Ukraine), degree in Theatre Studies

since 1997 free-lance activities at international trade fairs and congresses


1997-2001 Faculty of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies in Germersheim at the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz , degree in translation

2004-2006 Library and Information Studies and European Ethnology at the Humboldt-University of Berlin

since 2001 freelance translator

Some Projects and Sojourns Abroad:
Trans-European Intensive Programme: Multimedia Screen Translation at the Mercator Hogeschool Gent, dubbing into Russian for two R. W. Fassbinder films with a film club "Stalker" (Kirov) , telemarketing assistance with IOP Publishing (Bristol), cooperation in a book project on Supporting Friends of Libraries at the Institute of Library and Information Science at the Humboldt-University of Berlin