Mikhail Khazin 
Home +7 812 230 59 50 
Cell : +7 921 961 90 83 
m_hazin@mail.ru  
 
Objective  Freelance translator 
Language pairs En-Ru, Ru-En 
 
Subject areas auto-moto, computers, localization, websites, electronics, mechanical engineering, air transportation and airpalnes, cars and trucks, loaders, software manuals, office equipment, medical equipment  
Cinematography, art, poetry and literature 
 
CAT tools  Transit, Trados, TagEditor, Idiom, Wordfast, Pasolo 
Word rate  EU 0.04-0.06 (En-Ru), EU 0.06-0.10 (Ru-En) 
Daily output  2,000 – 4,000 source words 
 
Education 
1970   State University Language Courses, English and French translator 
 
1970 - 1975 Institute of Electrical Communicaton in St. Petersburg 
   Engineer of electrical transmissions and broadcasting 
 
Experience 
1992- current freelance translator and interpreter for different translation agencies (Canon, Ricoh, Pulkovo Airlines, Lionbridge, Benevox, Multilize and others).   
 
1990 – 1992  Film Studio, Interpreter  
Interpreting for different English and American shooting crews and documents translation 
 
1988-1991  Translation Agency "Slovo", Founder, project coordinator, translator 
Coordination of projects 
 
1975-1988  Computer Center, Senior Engineer 
Programming and software translation 
 
Published translations 
 Publication for Cambridge Press: "Ocean Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Modeling" by Boris Kagan (from Russian into English).\ 
 
 Publications of literary translations (novels, essays, poetry in different publishing houses, Samizdat, "Amfora" "Ivan Limbakh" , “Limbus Press”)  
 
Films translation tens of films including official distribution, subtitling 
Participation in co-production of French and Russian films as a translator, coordinator and group leader. 
 
Participation in projects 
Canon   over 30,000 pages (manuals for copiers, printers, faxes) 
Ricoh   about 3,000 pages (manuals for copiers, printers, faxes) 
Woodword   500 pages (installation Manuals) 
Pulkovo airlines 200 pages 
Google projects 700 pages  
 
Seminars 
..   Seminar on literary translation by V. Toporov 
..   Seminar on contemporary European Theatre   
 
Skills Strong PC user, MS Office Suite, CAT tools.