Petrov Sergey Vladimirovich (pseudonym Yaroslav Azumlev)

Born in 1911 in Kazan, higher education; teacher of foreign languages. Lived: Leningrad, 25 Oktyabrya Ave., 108, apt. 2. Arrested 02/25/1933. Sentenced by a troika of OGPU police officers to the Leningrad Military District on April 14, 1933 under Art. 58-11 to 10 years in labor camp with replacement by deportation for the same period to the West Siberian Territory.
In 1943, at the end of his period of exile, he left for Achinsk, taught Latin and general hygiene at a paramedic-midwife school, and also taught part-time at the Achinsk Pedagogical School (English, German and French), the College of Trade and Trade (English), secondary school (German). In 1951-1954. taught German at school at the station. Spirovo.
In 1954 he moved to Novgorod, where he worked for 9 years at the Pedagogical Institute as a German language assistant. He passed the candidate's exams, but did not defend his dissertation. In 1958 he began publishing as a translator (fragments of the poem “The Last Days of Hutten” by K. F. Meyer). Since 1959, he has published articles and reports on the theory and criticism of translation. Since 1960, he led a seminar of Scandinavian translators at the literary translation section of the Leningrad branch of the RSFSR Writers' Union. In the first half of the 1970s he moved to Leningrad, where he lived until the end of his life. Rehabilitated on August 28, 1959 by the Leningrad City Court.