MOSCOW, Aug 11 Farewell to the translator, radio host and writer Leonid Volodarsky is taking place in Moscow at the Central Clinical Hospital N1 of the Presidential Administration, the correspondent reports.
Translator, writer and radio host Leonid Volodarsky died on Tuesday, August 8, at the age of 73, after a long illness. family, friends and colleagues.
«»Like everyone else present, he was a close person to me. Apart from words of gratitude for his integrity, I simply cannot find other words. Therefore, like everyone else, I simply had to come here «, — said Kolokoltsev.
The editor-in-chief of the Govorit Moskva radio station Roman Babayan, in turn, noted that in his whole life he knew only two people who worked on the radio and at the same time were «megapopular and absolutely recognizable», one of them was just Volodarsky.
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“A man with encyclopedic knowledge, he did not keep them in himself, he tried to convey them. He is an amazing person — a person who gave out a product of the highest class. These programs could be listened to endlessly. Even the listeners called us all the time — they always waited for me to come out on the air and asked the question: “Where is Volodarsky?” Babayan said. having voiced many foreign films, for more than 30 years of work he has voiced over five thousand films, including the famous American films «Terminator» (1984) and «Django Unchained» (2012).
The peculiarity of his translations was that he translated simultaneously and the first time, he spoke English, Italian, Spanish and French.