93-11-04 A Voice of History Speaks Out:  Russian Translator Zoya Zarubina to Share Her Stories at U.Va.

A VOICE OF HISTORY SPEAKS OUT: RUSSIAN TRANSLATOR 
ZOYA ZARUBINA TO SHARE HER STORIES AT U.VA.

     CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Nov. 4 -- A key player as Winston
Churchill's translator at the end of World War II, Zoya
Vasilyevna Zarubina will speak at the University of Virginia
Monday, Nov. 8 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Colonnade Hotel on the
West Range.  Her address, "Reflections on Yalta," is free and
open to students, faculty and members of the community.
     Now a professor at the Diplomatic Academy in Moscow,
Zarubina also served as a translator at the Nuremberg trials and
later directed the first language training course for United
Nations translators for 10 years.  More recently she has
interpreted for President and Mrs. Reagan and Mrs. Bush.  In
addition, she established the group, International Educators for
Peace and Understanding in 1988. 
     Zarubina's Diplomatic Academy colleague, Yuri Urbanovich, a
visiting scholar here with U.Va.'s Center for the Study of Mind
and Human Interaction, calls her "a life history." She has
participated in past Center-sponsored conferences aimed to
enhance relations in the Baltic states of the former Soviet Union
and will visit the Center during her visit.
     The Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction is
engaged in an ongoing project to help bridge the gaps that
separate the various groups vying for power since the breakup of
the Soviet Union.  The third Baltic states conference is planned
for next April in Estonia.
     For more information, call U.Va.'s Center for Russian and
East European Studies at (804) 924-3033.
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                                                 November 3, 1993

     REPORTERS: Zarubina can offer insight not only to what's
happened in the past, but to the recent changes in Russia as
well, according to Urbanovich.  To set up a one-on-one interview
with her before or after her Monday speech, call Yuri Urbanovich
at (804) 982-3836.

 
Karen Castle, Office Services Specialist, University News Office
P.O. Box 9018, Booker House, Charlottesville, VA  22906
(804) 924-7116, kac@virginia.edu

[Submitted by: Karen A. Castle  (kac@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu)
               Wed, 3 Nov 93 16:37:20 EST]