General Information
Full name (First, Middle, Last) Bair Klimentievich Irincheev
Date of birth May 29, 1977
Marital status Married
Citizenship Russian
Country and cty of residence Helsinki, Finland
Completed and ongoing projects
Web projects
  • www.mannerheim-line.com – design, texts, translations, photos
  • www.iremember.ru – veteran interviews and translations
Books and Translations
  • Tank Rider Into the Reich with the Red Army by Evgeni Bessonov, GreenHill Books, 2003 – translation
  • On the Roads of War: a Soviet Cavalryman on the Eastern Front by Ivan Yakushin, Pen and Sword, 2005 – translation
  • Penal Strike, a Penal Battalion´s Story by Alexander Pylcyn, 2005 – translation
  • T-34 in Action by Artem Drabkin and Oleg Sheremet, Stackpole Military History Series 2007 – translation of several chapters
  • Mannerheim-linja - Talvisodan legenda (Mannerheim Line – the legend of the Winter War), by Antero Uitto and Carl-Fredrik Geust, Gummerus, 2005 – consulting and translations
  • Jatkosota puna-armeijan silmin (Continuation War through the eyes of the Red Army), Artem Drabkin and Bair Irincheev, Ateena 2007 – proof reading, photo texts, interviews with veterans.
  • Red Air Force: Barbarossa and Retreat to Moscow: recollections of Soviet Fighter Pilots at the Eastern Front, by Artem Drabkin, Pen & Sword, 2008 – translation
  • Guns against the Reich: Memoirs of an Artillery Officer on the Eastern Front by Pavel Mikhin, Pen & Sword, coming in summer 2009 – translation
  • Mannerheim Line – Finnish fortifications of the Winter War 1920-1940 by Bair Irincheev, Osprey Fortress Series, coming in September 2009 – author.
  • Stalin's Forgotten Front, Yauza, Moscow, 2009 by Bair Irincheev - author

 

TV documentaries:

  • Fire and Ice: Winter War of Russia and Finland, MastersWork Media LLC, USA, Associate Producer, Interpreter and Expert
  • Winter War through the eyes of the Russians, Adamovo Jabloko tv company, St Petersburg, Interpreter and Expert

Work experience

February 2004 - present time

Bair Travels Company, entrepreneur

 

July 2002 - April 2003

Assistant Programme Co-ordinator, British Consulate General, Saint-Petersburg

 

September 2000 - June 2001

Translator/Interpreter/Office Assistant, Consulate General of India, Saint-Petersburg

 

August 1997

S. C. Johnson Wax, Sales Administrator Trainee

 

August 1996

Coca-Cola St. Petersburg Bottlers, Summer Intern, Financial Department

 

1994 - 1998

Translator/Interpreter, Lord's Move to Europe Mission, part-time work

Education

September 2001 - June 2003

Master of International Business program

School of Management, Saint-Petersburg State University

 

October 2001 - March 2002

Completed guide and translator course in Intourist SPb Training center

 

September 1999 - May 2000

Master of Science, program "Organization of enterpreneurship", 1 year completed

School of Management, Saint-Petersburg State University

One semester spent in Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration on exchange program

 

September 1998 - May 1999

Master of Science, Major in Business Administration, completed with distinction

Stockholm University (Hogskolan pa Gotland)

 

September 1994 - June1998

Undergraduate Degree in Management, completed with distinction

School of Management, Saint-Petersburg State University

One semester spent in Institute of Utrecht, Netherlands (Hogeschool van Utrecht, Faculteit Economie en Management)

Language skills
Russian Native
English Fluent 
Finnish

Fluent
Swedish Average
German Basic

© Bair Irincheev 2001 - 2009