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Working languages:
Russian to English
English to Russian
Italian to Russian

Michael Korovkin

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Local time: 06:34 CET (GMT+1)

Native in: English Native in English, Russian Native in Russian

Account type Freelancer
Services Translation, Interpreting, Editing/proofreading, Training, Project management, Operations management
Expertise
Specializes in:
AnthropologyArt, Arts & Crafts, Painting
Government / PoliticsHistory
Human ResourcesJournalism
Poetry & LiteraturePrinting & Publishing
Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.


Rates
Russian to English - Standard rate: 0.20 EUR per word / 50 EUR per hour
English to Russian - Standard rate: 0.20 EUR per word / 50 EUR per hour
Italian to Russian - Standard rate: 0.20 EUR per word / 50 EUR per hour
Italian to English - Standard rate: 0.20 EUR per word / 50 EUR per hour
Russian to Italian - Standard rate: 0.20 EUR per word / 50 EUR per hour

KudoZ activity Questions answered: 1200, Questions asked: 0 Easy / 6 PRO, PRO-level points: 877
Experience Years of translation experience: 35. Registered at ProZ.com: Oct 2008.
ProZ.com Certified PRO certificate(s) N/A
Credentials N/A
Memberships N/A
Software Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, QuarkXPress
CV/Resume English (DOC), Russian (DOC)
About me

LANGUAGES:
Russian (m.t.);
English (working and quotidian language for the last 33 years)
Italian (working language for the last 25 years)

AVAILABLE FOR:
English-Russian-English: written/ad hoc/simultaneous
Italian-English: written/ad hoc/simultaneous
English-Italian: ad hoc/simultaneous
Italian-Russian: written/ad hoc/simultaneous
Russian-Italian: ad hoc/simultaneous

Translated for (examples): Presidents Yeltzin and Putin, Andrej Sakharov, Edward Teller, Indro Montanelli

RETAINED BY:
Strymarket/Energotest Certification and Licensing Firm, Moscow
Logos Translation Agency, Rome

SOME RELEVANT SHORT-TERM EXPERIENCE IN TRANSLATION WITH:
TV Knowledge Network, Canada • Ministry of the Interior, Italy • National Tressury, Italy • Offices of the Parliament, Rome • Fiscal Police, Italy • Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canada • Embassy of the Russian Federation (important events only; i.e., working with the teams of President Yeltzin and President Putin) • Italian Radio & Television State Company (extraordinary events only; i.e., Edward Teller, Sergej Sakharov, etc.) • National Institute of Social Welfare, Italy/Bucharest • Aletheia Publishers, Russia; Giperion Publishers, Russia Sova Publishers (AST), Russia • “Telespazio” Inc, Rome, Fucino • “Finmeccanica”, Rome • Banca di Roma • “Channel One” Russian National Television • “Pansoinco International”, Lugano • Russian National Aluminium & Magnezium Institute • Kazakhtelecom • “Browning-Winchester”, Italy • “Penta International” • “Reuters”, London • “Alusar” (Pansoinco, Inc.), Sardegna •“Maxcomm Ltd.”, Los Angeles.

DEGREES:
B.A. Biology/MD (Moscow), MA Social Anthropology (Toronto), DRS Cultural Anthropology (Amsterdam)

SOME RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
a. articles
1987 The Coat Will Keep a Cucumber Warm, but the Label Warms Up the Guy: On the Emergence of
Americanized Argots in Modern Russia. Language in Society V.16, 4.
1988 On the Substantiality of Form: Interpreting Symbolic Expression in the Paradigm of Social Organization. Comparative Studies in Society and History , Cambridge University Press, V.2, October
1989 Prefix and the Semantic Drift of Russian Verbs. Antidote, Naples.
1992 On the Dynamics Within the Semantic Field of Kinship Terminology. Antidote, Naples.
1993 The Alchemical Notions of Sound and Nonsense in Folk-Songs. I Suoni, Le Onde, IV.
b. books
1995 Reflections on Russian Proverbs: Translation, Understanding and the Principle of Uncertainty. Red Hill Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles

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Total pts earned: 881
PRO-level pts: 877


Top languages (PRO)
Russian to English394
Italian to English229
English to Russian202
Italian to Russian40
Russian to Italian12
Top general fields (PRO)
Other266
Art/Literary174
Tech/Engineering97
Social Sciences91
Medical80
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Top specific fields (PRO)
Poetry & Literature92
Medical (general)76
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters58
Education / Pedagogy49
Other44
Engineering (general)41
Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting34
Pts in 35 more flds >

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Profile last updated
Jun 2