MOSCOW, 8 Aug. Leonid Volodarsky, the host of Moscow Talks, has died, the radio station reported citing his relatives.
He died after a long illness at the age of 73.
Soviet and Russian translator, writer and radio host Leonid Volodarsky was born on May 20, 1950 in Moscow. Graduated from the Maurice Thorez Moscow State Institute of Foreign Languages. He worked at the Institute for African Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, then at the Institute of the International Labor Movement of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
Volodarsky has become widely known as a translator who voiced many foreign films. During his more than thirty-year career, he has voiced over five thousand different films, including the films The Godfather, Star Wars, Die Hard, Terminator, The Sopranos and Django Unchained.
Since March 2014, Leonid Volodarsky has hosted an author's program on the radio station «Moscow Speaks» on the history of Russia in the Soviet period.