Farhad Nail Fatkullin (born 2 November 1979) is a Russian

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from

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best known for his activities in promoting the

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among non-Russian speaking peoples of

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. He was declared

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during

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2018. He is a professional simultaneous interpreter previously serving for

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, former

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Biography

Fatkullin was born on 2 November 1979, in

Kazan Kazan; , IPA: Help:IPA/Tatar, ɑzanis the largest city and capital city, capital of Tatarstan, Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka (river), Kazanka Rivers, covering an area of , with a population of over 1. ...

. He is married, with two children.

Education

* 1986–1993: Kazan High school No.123 with in-depth study of French language. * 1993–1997: Ertugrul Gazi Tatar-Turkish high school, Kazan. * 1995–1997: Clayton High School, Missouri, USA. * 1997–2002: Kazan State Finance and Economics Institute, Economy of Enterprise—Finance management. * 2004–2008: Institute of Social and Humanitarian Knowledge, Kazan, faculty of interpretation. He speaks and is able to translate into Tatar, Russian, English, French, Turkish and Italian.

Professional activities

Teacher of "Risk Management" (in English) at Kazan State Finance and Economics Institute (Russia) and

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(USA). Interpreter of translation sector, State Protocol Department of the

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Presidential Administration. In particlular, he was serving as English-Tatar simultaneous interpreter in the course of visit of

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to Tatarstan in 2009. Has a lengthy record of many other translation activities at numerous political, educational, cultural and business events. In 2020, he was included by the President of Tatarstan

Rustam Minnikhanov Rustam Nurgaliyevich Minnikhanov (born 1 March 1957) is a Russian politician who has served as the head of Tatarstan, a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia, since 2010. Early life and education Rustam Minnikhanov was born on 1 ...

into the Commission for Preservation and Development of the Tatar language consisting of 35 high-profile language and culture specialists.

Current Wikimedia projects

* Selet WikiSchool * Smart region * Wikimedia Community of Tatar language User Group * Wikimedia Russia Farhad is involved in a large number of volunteering initiatives related to global

and to development of Wikipedias in languages of Russia. In 2018, at the moment his

award was announced by

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, Farhad was busy at home simultaneously translating live broadcast from Wikimania for Russian Wikipedians as volunteer interpreter for community (without knowing he was going to be awarded). n:ru:Фархад Фаткуллин из Татарстана стал Википедистом 2018 года — Russian Wikinews, 23.07.2018 Fatkullin is a member of Wikimedia Russia and maintains collaboration with Wikigrannies wiki-usergroup from neighboring

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Notes

References

Interviews in English

* 2018 Wikimedian of the Year, Farkhad Fatkullin — Wikipedia ''Signpost'', August 30, 2018 *
Set of video interviews
on

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(August 17, 2018)
Farhad Fatkullin, 2018 Wikimedian of the Year, looks back on his successes and forward to what's next
— Wikimedia News, August, 14 2019

External links

Professional website in Russian
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