Author: Natalia Fedorenkova

Today I interpreted consecutively at the technical audit at the Kolomensky plant in the city of Kolomna, Moscow region. We had a tour over all main workshops of the plant, including the engineering, production, assembly, testing workshops and design department. It was very exciting to see with my own eyes all components and processes used for producing diesel engines and locomotives. The Kolomensky plant is part of Transmashholding – the major Russian company that provides the equipment for Russian railways and urban transport systems.

Today I interpreted consecuitevly a well-known architect and urban design expert Jan Gehl during a teleconference on II Climatic Urban Forum in TASS. Jan spoke about his impressions from the positive changes brought about in Moscow for the recent years: the city is now much more comfortable for people, there are many public spaces developed, the pavements made broader and new trees planted. As a result there are mode pedestrians, including elderly people, in the streets.

You can watch the full press-conference here:

 

Today I had the honour to interpret consecutively the meeting between the State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Transport Sergey Aristov with Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of India to the RF Pankaj Saran. The parties discussed the development of the international transport corridor “North-South”; the details of the upcoming tri-partite meeting with Iranian colleagus on organizing transit shipments of Indian cargos through Iran to Russia; the possibility of arranging a business mission of Russian transport executives to India; the cooperation prospects in transport education and harmonization of the Draft Memorandum of understanding.  It is always a pleasure, though a responsibility too, to interpret such protocol events, since first of all you feel that you are making a certain contribution to the history and secondly you are more likely to get the agenda, the list of participants and abstracts in advance, which considerably simplifies the preparation. I highly appreciate this opportunity the Minister of Transport gave me, already for the second time and I hope it was not the last.

I have accompanied the CEO of Silicom at meetings with Russian partners for two days. The companies discussed various IT solutions Silicom can provide, new technologies and cooperation prospects. These two days contributed a lot to my knowledge in the IT area.