I was born in St Petersburg, Russia, and after graduating from the Herzen University I spent five years working on literary translation. As a result I had a couple of books and several art catalogues translated. Being an on-site interpreter for the shooting of 'Orlando' made me passionate about cinematograph, English culture and the way individuals communicate with each other. In 2000 I moved to UK to do my MA in Interpreting and Translation at the University of Bath. I have worked as a freelance transcreator, subeditor and translator since 1992. This has provided me with a wide variety of experience, both professional and cultural. My clients include Wordbank Ltd, Text Appeal, Visiontext (translation of subtitles for DVD releases - more that 120 films), Berlin Film Festival; SDI Media Group, European Captioning Institute, Technicolor, Sue Bond Public Relations agency, Chartered Institute of Linguistsʼ Language Services; Russian sub-editor for Story Worldwide, Lexus Magazine; Russian sub-editor for Redwood, LIV Magazine. I enjoy writing texts and consider myself almost bilingual. Reconstructing texts and adapting them to one’s own culture involves knowledge and imagination and I believe I can deliver both.

2000 - 2001 – MA in Interpreting and Translating (University of Bath, UK), 1988 - 1996 – Russian State Pedagogical University of St Petersburg (Foreign Languages Dept. – English and Italian Languages); graduation thesis on communicative and pragmatic problems of translation
Luxury goods, Travel, Art, Cinema, Marketing, Opera, Literature
Vertu, Lexus, Volvo, Nike, the Hermitage Rooms, Tate Modern
Russian (native), English (professional knowledge).
Subtitling, Desk Top Publishing, Summary Writing, High computer literacy (both Mac and PC), good knowledge of InDesign and Quark Xpress.
Art, Classical and Contemporary Music, Literature, Children’s Literature and Bilingualism.