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OUR TEAM
All the services at our agency are provided by a team of client-focused professionals:
1. Highly-skilled translators holding their degree in foreign languages and literature from Gorlovka State Institute for Foreign Languages, narrow-field experts from Gorlovka Highway Engineering Institute of Donetsk National Technical University, Donetsk National University, Donetsk National Technical University and many others.
2. Foreign languages professors together with engineers, computer programmers, economists, psychologists, historians, political scientists, sociologists etc. from Gorlovka State Institute for Foreign Languages, Gorlovka Highway Engineering Institute of Donetsk National Technical University, Donetsk National University, Donetsk National Technical University.
All our translators have undergone their training in the country of the language they specialize in, they are known for their good command of the target language, extensive background knowledge, and rich practical experience in providing language translation services.
The majority of our freelance translators hold the degree of the Doctor of Philosophy, the Master of Arts or the Master of Science and are authors of a great number of learned works (monographs, research papers, manuals, text-books etc.).
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Oleg Shlapakov 
Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, English, Written French.
Scientific Interests: Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Lingo-culture Studies, Genre Studies, Public Relations, Nonverbal Communication.
Publications
22 research papers
Editorial Work
Executive editor of the annual digest of research papers "Young Scholars' Studies in the Liberal Arts Area" (Gorlovka, Ukraine)
Journalism
Freelance journalist of the monthly travel magazine “Siesta Escape” (Chisinau, Republic of Moldova) - hobby
Work in Process
Speech Genre “Congratulation”: Communicative-pragmatic and Structural-semantic Peculiarities (in English, French, Ukrainian and Russian Speech Cultures)
Qualifications
| 09/2004–09/2007 |
Gorlovka State Pedagogical Institute for Foreign Languages, Ukraine
a postgraduate studying to get a 3-year Ph.D degree in Linguistics (English, French, Ukrainian, Russian) |
| 09/1998–09/2003 |
Gorlovka State Pedagogical Institute for Foreign Languages (Humanitarian Faculty), Ukraine
5-year Specialist’s Degree in English and Russian |
| 03/2002-05/2002 |
Gorlovka Training College, Ukraine
Computer Literacy Courses |
| 07/1996-01/1997 |
Kharkiv Financial-economical Institute, Ukraine
Accounting Courses |
| 09/1996-05/1998 |
Snezhnoe Field Studies Centre, Ukraine
Business Undertaking Courses |
Experience
| 09/2006-Present |
Head of the Young Scholars Council at Gorlovka State Pedagogical Institute for Foreign Languages |
| 09/2003-Present |
Assistant Professor of the Linguistics and the Russian Language Department at Gorlovka State Pedagogical Institute for Foreign Languages (Ukraine) |
| 09/2003-06/2004 |
Assistant Professor at the Translators’ Faculty of Gorlovka State Pedagogical Institute for Foreign Languages (Ukraine) |
| 2001-2005 |
Freelance translator from English into Ukrainian and Russian |
06/2004-08/2004
05/2002-08/2002
06/2001-08/2001 |
Counsellor at the International Children’s Centre “Artek”
Instructor of English at the “Artek” Summer School
Interpreter at the International Children’s Centre “Artek |
Affiliations
Member of the Donetsk Philological School
Member of the Ukrainian Association of the Russian Language Teachers
GENERAL MANAGER
Helen Starchenko
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Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, English, Written French.
Scientific Interests: Terminology, Stylistics, Lingo-culture Studies, Cognitology, Lexicology, Sociolinguistics, Political Science
Publications
17 research papers; a textbook of English for the first-year ESL students
Work in Process
Comparative Analysis of the English and Ukrainian Political Terminology
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Qualifications
| 12/2001–12/2004 |
Gorlovka State Pedagogical Institute for Foreign Languages, Ukraine
a postgraduate studying to get a 3-year Ph.D degree in Linguistics (English, Ukrainian, Russian) |
| 09/1992–09/1997 |
Gorlovka State Pedagogical Institute for Foreign Languages, Ukraine
5-year Specialist’s Degree in English and Ukrainian |
| 09/1990-05/1992 |
Gorlovka Field Studies Centre, Ukraine
Computer Literacy Courses |
Experience
| 09/1997-Present |
Assistant Professor of the English Phonetics Department at Gorlovka State Pedagogical Institute for Foreign Languages (Ukraine) |
| 1996-2005 |
Freelance translator from English into Ukrainian and Russian |
| 09/2001-09/2002 |
Assistant Professor of the Foreign Languages Department at Kramatorsk Machine-building Academy (Ukraine) |
| 09/1998-09/2000 |
Assistant Professor at the Translators’ Faculty of Gorlovka State Pedagogical Institute for Foreign Languages (Ukraine) |
Affiliations
Member of the Donetsk Philological School
Long-term collaboration with the British Council
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