Please submit your choice in the Google form

1) Boat tour of St.Petersburg rivers and canals
Starts at 8.00pm local time on 23rd September, Friday. Departure by bus from Pribaltiyskaya parking lot, with a change for boats at the Admiralty Embankment. Each boat sits 40-50 people on a covered deck and a sundeck with warm blankets provided on demand. The tour takes 70-80 minutes. Participants return to the hotel by the same bus.

One of the boats will have an English-speaking guide.

2) Bus tour (Photo tour) of St.Petersburg city center

Starts at 8.00pm local time on 23rd September, Friday. Departure by bus from Pribaltiyskaya parking lot, total duration 150-180 minutes.

The bus will navigate the illuminated city center and make stops at important sites of interest. Participants will visit: Sphinx pier, Vasiliev Island, Petropavlovskaya fort, Church of Our Saviour on Spilled Blood, Anichkov bridge, Kazan and Isaak’s cathedral, the Admiralty and Nevsky prospect.

This is an excellent opportunity to visit everything without getting too cold.

3) Mystery of the Nocturnal Castle

Starts at 11.00pm on Saturday, after gala reception. Departure by bus from Pribaltiyskaya parking lot, return after 1.00am or later.

Act 1: Boat tour and a story about St.Petersburg sinister history and river traditions.
Act 2: Walk inside Petropavlovskaya fort with immersive environment and costumed actors role playing various historical scenes from 18^th century till modern days.

Act 3: Drawing of Troitskiy and Dvortsoviy bridges, a panorama from an excellent vantage point.

NB! The cost of this tour is 1100 rur (29 eur), participants can either buy a ticket in addition to other tours or exchange an existing ticket with an extra payment of 500 rur (12 eur). The tour will take place only if 40 or more people sign up.

Please submit your choice in the Google form under the link below:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=ru&formkey=dEpGV0lGZTY0X3pKZkJCNVZURlY0REE6MQ#gid=0

The program includes 4 rooms designated for different audiences:

1) Interpreters and trainers

2) Staff and  freelance  translators

3) Project managers and other production company staff

4) Sales/marketing managers, CEOs, clients

The fifths room will run extra presentations that we are currently cannot  fit in the other tracks due to time restrains or topical incompatibily.

the registration page for Translation Forum Russia 2011 has been made available today. There you can book hotel rooms and buy tickets for the evening program: a tour of St.Petersburg's rivers and canals on the 23rd and gala-reception on the 24th. Please fill in the forms published there to submit information as a private person or a company. You'll receive a bill and other documents necessary for the payment shortly afterwards. We accept individual bank payments and company operations transactions at the moment, and will be able to accept credit cards and e-money later this week.

Reduced entrance fees period is extended till 1st of August. Please fill in the form before that date for a 4400 rubles fee (approx 110 euros), afterwards its 4900 rubles (122,5 euros).

Post-conference training sessions information will be made available later.

Contacts:

• If you have questions or suggestions about the conference, or the current website, please write to Konstantin Dranch kvdranch@gmail.com
• Address registration and billing issues to Victoria Kuzmina vkuzmina@proverbum.ru

Translation Forum Russia is the most prominent translation business conference conference in Russia and the CIS. Delegates from all sectors of industry attend the event, including agency managers, linguistic software developers, freelance and staff translators & interpreters, university professors and consultants.

While a new conference website is being developed, please view the following brief information:

Translation Forum Russia 2011 will be held on the 23-25 of September 2011 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. We expect over 400-600 delegates, including all major Russian LSPs, prominent translators and interpreters.

The hosts of TFR2011:

All Correct Language Solutions, Samara-based LSP

Business Bureau of Association of Translators, Ekateringurg-based LSP

ProVerbum, Saint Petersburg-based translator training company

The program

will cover a variety of topics:

1) Global trends

2) Russian market studies, focus on fast-growing sectors

3) Workshops and master class sessions for translator & interpreter training

4) New software for LSPs (CAT tools, TMS, auxiliary programs)

5) Managing translation quality

Registration details will become available in 2011

If you would like to speak at the conference, please write to Demid Tishin dtishin[ a t ]gmail.com or Konstantin Dranch kvdranch[ a t ]gmail.com

Follow the updates on twitter @tconf_ru and by hash tag #tf_ru

reports from our 2010 conference:

Photos by: Olga Fomenko, InTEXT, Dmitry Voroshuk, Anastasia Gurova, Anna Kremleva

Renato Beninatto (EN, text)

Video interviews (featuring Renato Beninatto, Jost Zetzsche, Miriam Lee)

Translation forum Russia 2010 featured more than 330 participants and 40 speakers.