Julia ZHIRONKINA is a staff
interpreter, translator, editor and copywriter in the foreign relations
department of the Center TV Broadcasting Consortium. She has worked in this
capacity for a number of prominent business enterprises and Russian television
channels, including NTV, ORT and distributors of video and film. She translates
and edits documentaries, feature films and animated cartoons on a wide range of
subjects. Among the more than 200 titles she has prepared for broadcasting and
distribution are 'Walking with Dinosaurs', 'Network', 'Alf', films by the
Discovery Channel. In 1997 she organized a study tour for Russian ecologists to
national parks in the United States and a study tour for American ecologists to
Russian national parks and state reserves. She has a special interest in
indigenous cultures, and works with Purba, Theater of Tibetan Music (www.purba.da.ru),
promoting the cultural heritage of Tibet in Russia.
J. Zhironkina graduated from the department of biology at Moscow Pedagogical
University, and also from Moscow Linguistic University, where she studied
written translation as well as consecutive and simultaneous interpretation (English
and French). She also completed a course on the artistic translation of feature
films and fiction.