The Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology of Voronezh State University held the next international students’ translation contest named after V.B. Kashkin. The competition was held in cooperation with the Moscow State Linguistic University and the Minsk State Linguistic University (Belarus).
At the competition, students were asked to translate texts from English, German, and French into Russian in three categories: "Journalistic text", "Scientific and technical text", and "Literary text".
Works by undergraduate, specialist, master's and PhD students of Russian and foreign universities were accepted for the competition. The jury was comprised of university lecturers from the departments of translation and professional communication, German philology, French philology of the Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology, as well as representatives of partner universities (Moscow State Linguistic University and Minsk State Linguistic University).
Overall, over 800 projects were submitted to take part in the contest. The participants were students from more than thirty universities in Russia, Belarus, Transnistria, who demonstrated a high level of professional training, the ability to find interesting translation solutions.
The winners of the competition were students from Moscow State Linguistic University, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (Sanki-Petersburg), Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Taras Shevchenko Transnistria State University, Volgograd State Social Pedagogical University, Murmansk Arctic State University, Don State Technical University, Perm State National Research University, Penza State University, and Minsk State Linguistic University.
Students of the translation department of the Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology of Voronezh State University successfully performed at the competition and won prizes.
Students of the Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology who won prizes in the competition of translation from English are:
- Anna Diesperova (2nd year student) – 1st place in the nomination "Literary text";
- Irina Lazareva (2nd year student) – 1st place in the nomination "Technical text";
- Ulyana Bogolepova (4th year student) – 2nd place in the nomination "Literary text";
- Artyom Selin (1st year student) – 2nd place in the nomination "Technical text";
- Anton Nechaev (3rd year student) – 3rd place in the nomination "Journalistic text".
Students of the Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology who won prizes in the competition of translation from German are:
- Daria Tarasova (4th year student) – 3rd place in the nomination "Literary text";
- Olga Strelko (3rd year student) – 3rd place in the nomination "Journalistic text".
Students of the Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology who won prizes in the competition of translation from French are:
- Elizaveta Suslova (4th year student) – 1st place in the nomination "Scientific and technical text";
- Sofia Kokhan (3rd year student) – 2nd place in the nomination "Literary text";
- Elizaveta Pyleva (5th year student) – 3rd place in the nomination "Journalistic text".
“This was my first experience of participating in a translation contest, and for a start I wanted to try myself with texts that I had already worked with. The journalistic style seems unusual to me due to the combination of special and emotional-evaluative vocabulary, which was the main difficulty in translation. Obviously, it was very interesting, such competitions provide an excellent opportunity not only to try and get experience, but also to learn something new,” said Olga Strelko.
“Literary translation is a pleasure for me. Therefore, despite the difficulties that inevitably arise when working with a text, student translation contests are a kind of outlet among everyday work and an opportunity to evaluate your own progress from course to course. I express my gratitude to the organizers of the competition for the opportunity to take part in the creative process, and I sincerely advise students not to be afraid and not to be embarrassed to participate in translation contests,” said Darya Tarasova.
