Russia 43

Listen to Russia 43, a 40-year-old man from Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 40

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 12/01/1985

PLACE OF BIRTH: Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Russian/White

OCCUPATION: businessman

EDUCATION: higher

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject spent nine months in California, United States, and one and a half years in Monterrey, Mexico

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: none

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RECORDED BY: Ivan Masterov

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 12/05/2025

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

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DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Hello, guys. I was born in Chelyabinsk. Uh, it’s Ural region of Russia. So, uh, I spent a lot of time of learning maths and, uh, computer science. And, uh, after that, I understood that the most, uh, interesting for me topic is robotics. So the future is, uh, here, is near, and robotics are, uh, the most, uh, interesting and amazing thing, uh, which we will face. So, uh, after that, I changed my life. I changed, uh, my, uh, everything to start learning robotics and working in that area. So, uh, after 15 years of efforts, of not sleeping nights, uh, I finally can say so that I’m specialist in, in, in robotics area. So if you need to automate something, if you have a production, so you have to call me.

[Subject speaks Russian]: Всем привет, я родился в Челябинске и потратил половину своей замечательной жизни на изучение роботизации. Что в наше время ээ безусловно интересно и, возможно, в будущем опасно, если мы посмотрим современную фантастику, точнее, даже несовременную, а фантастику прошлого, потому что сегодня это уже не фантастика, сегодня это это наше настоящее, то есть будущее уже наступило.

[Transliteration: Vsem privet, ya rodilsya v Chelyabinske ih potratil polovinu svoey zamechatel’noi zhizni nah izuchenie robotizatsii. Chto v nashi vremya eeh bezuslovno interesno ih, vozmozhno, v buduschem opasno, esli mi posmotrim sovremennuyu fantastiku, tochnee, dazhe nesovremennuyu , ah fantastiku proshlogo, potomu chto segodnya eto uzhe ne fantastika, segodnya eto eto nashi nastoyaschee, to est’ buduschee uzhe nastupilo.

English translation: Hey, everyone. I was born in Chelyabinsk and spent a half of my amazing life on learning robotics. Nowadays it is undoubtedly interesting and might be dangerous in the future, if we take a look at modern fantastic, or else, not even modern but the fantastic of the past, because today it is no longer the future; today it is our present, so the future is already here.]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Ivan Masterov

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 12/05/2025

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DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY: N/A

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