Pavel Palazhchenko

Pavel Palazhchenko
Па́вел Пала́жченко
Palazhchenko in 2011
Born (1949-03-17) 17 March 1949 (age 75)
Monino, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Alma materMaurice Thorez Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages
OccupationInterpreter
Websitepavelpal.ru (in Russian)

Pavel Palazhchenko or Palazchenko[1] (Russian: Па́вел Русла́нович Пала́жченко, born 17 March 1949) is a former high-level Soviet conference interpreter who was the chief English interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev and Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze from 1985 and 1991.[2]

  1. ^ This variant spelling appears in a number of sources including the cover of the book My Years with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze.
  2. ^ Palazhchenko, Pavel (1997) My Years with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze: The Memoir of a Soviet Interpreter, Penn State University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-271-01603-5