GET TO KNOW A CONTRIBUTOR! SIMON LEBEDINSKIY

Simon Lebedinskiy was born in 1938 in a Russian East Siberian city, not far from the border of China, in a kind of Eastern Babylon. He grew up surrounded by people of different nationalities where he enjoyed listening to: Ukranian, Belorussian, Tatar, Yiddish, Korean, Chinese and a variety of native languages. These experiences led him to acquire a passion for languages and influenced him to become a student in the Foreign Languages Department at a local university where he studied the English and German languages. After graduation, he was sent to India as an English interpreter for a group of Russian workers. He spent three years in India before returning to Russia where he finally settled in Moscow, married and raised a family.  Soon after, he gained employment as a translator for a research center. He worked there for 27 years until he retired. During retirement, he sought to educate his fellow community members on literary and philosophical topics which led him to create a variety of literary gatherings wherein various speakers were invited to engage with community members.  Later in life, he and his wife joined their daughter and her family in the United States where he currently resides.