{"id":4612,"date":"2018-01-29T09:59:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T06:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/?p=4612"},"modified":"2018-02-02T15:17:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T12:17:25","slug":"25-yanvarya-v-sankt-peterburgskoj-vysshej-shkole-perevoda-rgpu-im-a-i-gertsena-sostoyalas-vstrecha-s-chlenom-soyuza-pisatelej-voennym-perevodchikom-yuriem-mihajlovichem-lebedevym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/news\/25-yanvarya-v-sankt-peterburgskoj-vysshej-shkole-perevoda-rgpu-im-a-i-gertsena-sostoyalas-vstrecha-s-chlenom-soyuza-pisatelej-voennym-perevodchikom-yuriem-mihajlovichem-lebedevym\/","title":{"rendered":"25 January 2018: SCIT hosts Yuri Lebedev, translator and member of St. Petersburg Branch of Union of Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"On 25 January SCIT hosted Yuri Lebedev, translator and a member of the St. Petersburg Branch of Union of Writers. The meeting was dedicated to the 75<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the Breach of the Leningrad Siege. At the meeting Yury Lebedev told the students about the German memoir literature and about the Leningrad Siege, dwelled on the Defense of Leningrad. The guest actively engaged the students in conversation and asked their opinion about many issues related to the war.<\/p>\n<p>The participants discussed the tricks of the work of military interpreters and translators. Mr. Lebedev spoke about the difficulties of simultaneous interpreters\u2019 work and recounted some events from his own experience. Talking about the subtleties of literary translation he said: \u201cNobody will ever become a good translator without the perfect knowledge of the mother tongue\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Irina Alexeeva asked the guest to tell about his engagement in the work of the International Centre \u201cReconciliation\u201d where he is a chair. The Centre established good connections between Russia and Germany which helped to open a military cemetery of German soldiers in Sologubovka, in the vicinity of St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>The writer also shared his impressions about working on the books <em>Into Eternity<\/em> and <em>Jokes of Military Interpreter<\/em>. An important milestone in his career became the translation of Arno Surminski\u2019s novel\u00a0<em>Vaterland ohne V\u00e4ter<\/em>\u00a0(Fatherland without Fathers).<\/p>\n<p>After the talk the students asked many questions about the fates of military translators and discussed the dilemma of heroism and self-sacrifice of Leningrad citizens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere was heroism, but tragedy was also there\u201d, &#8211; concluded Mr. Lebedev<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/mr7.ru\/articles\/175760\/<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lebedev1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4613\" src=\"http:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lebedev1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"lebedev1\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lebedev.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4614\" src=\"http:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lebedev-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"lebedev\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 25 January SCIT hosted Yuri Lebedev, translator and a member of the St. Petersburg Branch of Union of Writers. The meeting was dedicated to the 75th\u00a0anniversary of the Breach of the Leningrad Siege. At the meeting Yury Lebedev told the students about the German memoir literature and about the Leningrad Siege, dwelled on the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4655,"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions\/4655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}