Translator and presenter Leonid Volodarsky died – Kommersant
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Radio host and translator Leonid Volodarsky died. He was 73 years old. About this radio station “Moscow Speaks”where he worked recently, his wife said.
It is specified that Mr. Volodarsky died after a long illness. Farewell to him will take place on August 11 in the ritual hall of the Central Clinical Hospital (CCH) No. 1, the radio station reported.
Leonid Volodarsky was born on May 20, 1950 in Moscow. He graduated from the Maurice Thorez Moscow State Institute of Foreign Languages. Mr. Volodarsky translated works of art by English and American writers. He was one of the first translators of the works of Stephen King and also translated the works of Jerome Salinger.
Mr. Volodarsky became widely known as a simultaneous interpreter of foreign films that appeared in the USSR and Russia in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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