Ivan Markov Zlatev

Ivan Markov Zlatev is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Russian Language within the Faculty of Modern Languages at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo in Bulgaria. He holds a PhD and has established himself as a specialist in Russian linguistics with a focus on morphology, lexicology, and comparative studies between Russian and Bulgarian languages.

Dr. Zlatev's research primarily centers on interjections and onomatopoeia, with extensive comparative analysis of emotional expressions across Russian and Bulgarian. His scholarly work demonstrates a systematic approach to understanding semantic components in interjections, examining how concepts like surprise, fear, and emotional valence are expressed linguistically in both languages. He has also investigated the relationship between interjections and other parts of speech, exploring word formation and semantic motivation.

His publication record spans over two decades (2002-2024), showing consistent scholarly productivity with works appearing in academic journals like 'Bulgarian Russistics' and proceedings from international symposia. His research output includes book-length publications such as the two-part 'Russian Orthography: Rules and Exercises' and the 2023 monograph on 'Interjections in Russian and Bulgarian Languages.'

Dr. Zlatev participated in the significant research project 'Database for two-way parallel Russian-Bulgarian electronic corpus' (2013-2015), which created a bilingual database connecting parallel corpora of original and translated texts. This project provided valuable tools for translation equivalence research, linguistic asymmetry studies, and contrastive description between the languages.

He maintains active participation in academic service through the Department of Russian Language's Annual Linguistic Readings at Veliko Tarnovo University and has contributed to major departmental milestones, including the 60th anniversary of the Russian Language Department as evidenced by his 2024 publication.