Средневолжская транспортная страховая компания

English translation: Srednevolzhskaya Transport Insurance Company

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Russian term or phrase:	Средневолжская транспортная страховая компания
English translation:	Srednevolzhskaya Transport Insurance Company
Entered by:	zmejka

06:17 Oct 27, 2002

Russian to English translations [PRO]
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Russian term or phrase: Средневолжская транспортная страховая компания

Middle-Volga Transport Insurance Company?

zmejka KudoZ activity Questions: 1643 (1 open) (17 closed without grading) Answers: 416
Local time: 16:07

Srednevolzhskaya Transport Insurance Company

Explanation:
Это имя собственное, потому предлагаю транслитерировать

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Note added at 2002-10-27 07:04:32 (GMT)
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Полное наименование:
ООО \"Средневолжская транспортная страховая компания\"

Если переводить все, то название может стать неузнаваемым.

И вообще, нужно посмотреть в уставе самоназвание на английском.

Selected response from:

Remedios
Kazakhstan
Local time: 19:07

Grading comment

I think I'll go for the transliteration of "Средневолжская" in this case. But thanks, Clive, for your explanation... and Vadim, thank you for your comment!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +3

Srednevolzhskaya Transport Insurance Company

Remedios

4 +4

Central (Middle) Volga Insurance Company

Clive Wilshin

4 +1

not for grading but for discussion

Vadim Khazin

Answers

4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

Srednevolzhskaya Transport Insurance Company

Remedios
Kazakhstan
Local time: 19:07
Native speaker of:

Russian
PRO pts in pair: 515

Grading comment

I think I'll go for the transliteration of "Средневолжская" in this case. But thanks, Clive, for your explanation... and Vadim, thank you for your comment!

43 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

Central (Middle) Volga Insurance Company

Explanation:
There is no reason not to translate in the case of a geographical term. If you are going to transliterate, you should transliterate the whole name (Srednevolzhskaya transportnaya strakhovaya kompaniya), not part of it. Otherwise what justification do you have for the feminine form? As a general rule, you should either transliterate the whole name or translate it: not mix the two. The result is an illogical and inelegant hybrid.

Much to my surprise, Middle Volga seems much more common than Central Volga, at least in terms of Google hits. Nevertheless, I prefer the latter by analogy with Central Asia and so forth.

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Note added at 2002-10-27 07:34:49 (GMT)
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Similary (e.g.) Moskovskaya ulitsa OR Moscow Street but not Moskovskaya Street, Man?ge Square or Manezhnaya Ploshchad and so forth.

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Note added at 2002-10-27 07:36:16 (GMT)
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Man?ge - the question mark is an e grave of course.

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Note added at 2002-10-27 10:51:41 (GMT)
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I would render ООО \"Средневолжская транспортная страховая компания\" by silently dropping one of the \'companies\': Central Volga Transport Company Ltd.

Looking in the устав for the самоназвание in English is not usually possible, although a company website may have this information.

Clive Wilshin
Local time: 14:07
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 126

17 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

not for grading but for discussion

Explanation:
to Clive Wilshin: You may be right this time but please do not generalize: with Russian proper adjectives you cannot always figure out the noun it derived from. Example: how will you translate, say, Мироновская улица? Its name may have derived either from a person whose last name was Миронов (or Миронова), from a nearby village named Мироновка (or Мироновское), or maybe from some ancient guy named Мирон. And other options are possible too. So, to be on the safe side, especially when you are not 100% sure about the origin, it is better to transliterate such names than to translate (or convert adjectives intio nouns). And even if you know for sure that, say, the street's name derived from Pushkin, would you write "Pushkin Street" both for улица Пушкина and Пушкинская улица?

Vadim Khazin
Local time: 09:07
Native speaker of:

Russian,

Ukrainian
PRO pts in pair: 664

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