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About the team Russian Step By Step
Natasha Alexandrova
Author
Natasha has Masters Degree in Electronics and Bachelor in Linguistics. She has been teaching Russian to foreigners for over 15 years, first in Ukraine and then in the USA. Natasha attended number of teaching seminars and observed many lessons of her colleagues. Her most recent job responsibilities included performing lesson observation and giving feedback both to the teacher and to the student about how to improve the lesson, as well as things the student can do to benefit the most from the program.
Natasha watched her students struggle with learning Russian and realized that there is a very simple way to learn any language: just by dividing something complicated into simple pieces and mastering the language step by step.
Her many years of work and experience culminated in a book series of her own - Russian Step by Step. These books are easy to follow and, at the same time, are teaching real Russian. In RSBS books students will find dialogues from everyday life, exercises to help master those dialogues, and texts to help in remembering them.
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ELena Litnevskaya
Illustrator
Elena was born in the city of Omsk in Siberia. She has loved drawing since her childhood and early on decided that her profession would absolutely be connected with pencils and paint brushes. So she became a graphic designer and then an illustrator.
Now Elena works at a design studio in Moscow. She works mainly with acrylics and oils paints. Vector characters for books and magazines she dreams up at home after work.
Elena says that with a great pleasure she worked on the RSBS project . She hopes that her drawings will help you in your studying.
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Oleg Zagorsky
Oleg is a regular contributor to RSBS. You hear his voice on the audio.
Oleg was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Before coming to USA he worked as a stage director at the theatre ”Chyornaya Kuritsa” in Saint Petersburg.
Now Oleg works in security and in his free time teaches kids drama and acting skills at the Russian theatre "Skazka", Walnut Creek, CA.
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Irka Verbol
Illustrator
Irka graduated from Moscow College of Animation Cinematography, but up until now was too busy doing static illustrations. Getting her hands-on experience mostly from magazine illustration, she is in continuous search for the material for her real fairy-tale book. Moving from Russia to Israel to Canada, she finally settled in a beautiful city of Montreal.
Irka participated in an illustration project "33 Tales" that was granted "Best Art Book Award" in 2006, and in an advertisement company for new settlements in Israel. Recently she had her debut as a decoration and costume designer for a theatre studio of the University of Toronto.
In a spare time she is a toy-maker and a craft-master of different types of crafts. Her toys found their new homes in many different countries.
Russian Step By Step is one of her first freelance projects and definitely one of the most favourite ones. As she says, RSBS gives her a unique opportunity to look at the same picture from different sides.
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Joanne Hughes
Editor
JoAnne has Masters’ degree in English and has been teaching ESL all her life at the University, College, high schools. She also did a lot of editing, proofreading and translating official reports, academic manuscripts and other documents. JoAnne loves languages. She is fluent in French and speaks some Persian. JoAnne travelled a lot in her life. She lived in Europe and India for several years.
JoAnne says that by working on the Russian Step By Step project she gained some good friends. |
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Olesya Tsurikov
Editor
Olesya has been interested in foreign languages since her childhood. She moved to California from Kiev, Ukraine at the age of 14 and speaks Russian, Ukrainian, English and French languages fluently. Olesya is learning a little Spanish now as well. Being a native speaker of Russian language she finds equivalent translations from Russian expressions into English. Olesya hopes that her humble work will help your journey in learning Russian language with RSBS.
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Vsevolod 'Sam' Tsurikov
Website Development and Technical Support
Web and Sam (people have trouble pronouncing his first name, so he goes by Sam) were born in the same decade, so, he decided to master his skills in the fastest growing sector of services as a web development
His main task in the RSBS project is to create fast and well optimized website with user-friendly interface. Also he provides technical support for internet users and online lessons.
If you experience any trouble finding information, please contact Sam.
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