Boris Kolker

1939 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship: Soviet Union, United States of America, Moldova, Russia

languages spoken, written or signed: Russian, Esperanto, English

educated at: Moldova State University

occupation: writer, translator, Esperantist, esperantologist, teacher

award received: Honorary Member of the World Esperanto Association

position held: committee member of TEJO, Universal Esperanto Association committee member, Academy of Esperanto

Boris Grigorevich Kolker (Russian: Борис Григорьевич Колкер; born July 15, 1939, in Tiraspol, Moldavian ASSR, Soviet Union) is a language teacher, translator and advocate of the international language Esperanto. He was until 1993 a Soviet and Russian citizen and since then has been a resident and citizen of the United States residing in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1985 he was awarded a Ph.D. in linguistics from the Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow. Source: Wikipedia (en)