From January 19 to February 6, 2015, Dmitri Bloshenko, a senior reviser in the Russian Translation Service of the UN Secretariat in New York, gave a series of master classes at the SCIT.  Using actual UN texts as learning material our guest explained the students how to avoid typical mistakes in the institutional translation with special emphasis on good command of the Russian language as the main challenge for novice translators. Also, Dmitri Bloshenko had a meeting with the Herzen university officials, took an active part in staff meetings at the School as well as in the All Doors Open event on February, 5.