Jurij Cherednikov

Who is Jurij Cherednikov?

Jurij Cherednikov is a Ukrainian-American author and software engineer. He was the first representative of the Union Mundial pro Interlingua in Ukraine and co-founder of the Ukrainian Interlingua Society.

He was born in Odessa to a family of doctors. In 1981, he graduated from the Polytechnic Institute of Odessa with a Diploma of Honor in Computational Engineering, becoming a specialist in that field. Soon after his graduation, he learned about Interlingua from his friend Konstantin Romalis. He found that he could easily understand texts in Interlingua without prior study.

He entered the University of Odessa in 1986 to study French philology by correspondence. He graduated with a Diploma of Honor in this field, having dedicated his work toward the degree to Interlingua. He wrote a brief Interlingua grammar and Interlingua-Russian dictionary. He then translated and adapted Ingvar Stenstrom's renowned manual "Interlingua - instrumento moderne de communication international" for speakers of Russian. He authored Interlingva: mezhdinarodnij jazijk.

He accepted the post of Interlingua representative in 1992.