EJR Language Service Pty. Ltd.

Alan has worked as a translator for the Queensland Bureau of Ethnic Affairs and the Commonwealth Translation and Interpreting Service. He has extensive experience translating immigration documents, including birth certificates, marriage certificates, divorce certificates, driver licences, police clearances and educational qualifications. He has also translated Vasyl Sukhomlynsky’s educational classics My Heart I Give to Children and Our School in Pavlysh (original title: Pavlysh Secondary School).

Alan aims to provide the best possible service at an affordable cost and he receives very positive feedback from his clients. He is based in Brisbane, Australia.

‘Alan is a first-class translator who really cares about his clients. He treated my case with care and attention and I received high quality Russian translation within the same day. He was very helpful when I needed my translation posted quickly. I couldn’t recommend Alan’s services highly enough.’
Zhanna Shldenova – Client.

‘I found Dr Alan’s response to my translation request to be swift, concise and accurate as per original document.
I would highly recommend him as a go to guy for future translations of documents.’
James Abogonye, Client

After completing an honours degree in Russian language and literature at the University of Melbourne (1974), and a masters degree in Russian translatorship at the University of Queensland (1986), Alan studied at the Pushkin Institute of Russian Language in Moscow in 1987 and 1988, while at the same time conducting research for a doctoral thesis about the eminent Ukrainian educator Vasyl Sukhomlynsky.

During the Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Moscow in 1988, Alan worked as an interpreter with CBS journalist Charles Kuralt, seen here in the grounds of the Kremlin. A segment of one of the interviews that Alan facilitated can be viewed on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGwZ0pakhHE

Rates for Russian to English translation
Birth certificate – $35 (inserted citizenship certificate incurs an additional charge)
Driver licence – $35
Police clearance – $35
Passport pages (front matter) – $35
University degree (without transcript) – $35
University degree with transcript – $150-$180 (depending on length)
Other documents – $20 per 100 words of the resulting English translation, with a minimum charge of $35 per document.
(Note: Additional material such as apostilles may incur an additional charge.)
Alan also undertakes literary translation from Russian to English, with a focus on the works of the holistic Ukrainian educator Vasily Sukhomlinsky.

Alan Cockerill is a member of The Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators (AUSIT), and is NAATI certified to translate from Russian to English.