Chemical Engineer-turned-Linguist and Professor of Russian language. Ph.D. in Russian, taught Russian in Indian Universities in Nagpur and Hyderabad for 40 years. Polyglot (Telugu, English, Hindi, Russian, Marathi, French), writes and translates - mainly poetry - in(to) Telugu, English, Russian, Hindi. Also translated a large number of scientific-technical texts from Russian into English and vice versa.