On Saturday 19 July, St. Petersburg School of Conference Interpreting and Translation hosted the multilingual master classes in simultaneous interpreting organized under the aegis of VII UTR International School. Above 50 participants from  Moscow, Nizhni Novgorod, Samara, Vladivostok, Ekaterinburg and other cities attended the master classes.  The UTR delegation was headed by President Leonid Gurevich.

The master classes were given by Boris Pogodin, SCIT trainer and an experienced UN interpreter, and Professor Irina Zubanova, MSLU.