Could you help me with one sentence please?
I work in a museum. This is for the visitors, who don't speak Ukrainian, to read. My goal is to make the translation understandable for them. So here is the translation pay attention to the last sentence.
"In 1937 siblings, Petro and Mykola were arrested and executed by a firing squad. Petro Ivanovych was executed on 14th December, Mykola Ivanovych – 25th October. One of the accusations that was filed against Petro Ivanovych is the attendance of The All-Ukrainian Congress of Landowners and the electing of Pavlo Skoropadsky as a Hetman. According to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) record Yevtukh brothers were buried in 19-20 quarter sections of Bykyvnia forested area."You probably don't understand "in 19-20 quarter sections of Bykyvnia forested area."
What it means it that there's a forest area that was used as a graveyard. The forest areas in Ukraine are devided into "kvartals". Each kvartal has a name which includes the number. So, there's a Bykyvnia forest. The 2 brothers are buried there. Since the forest is very large the author mentions the exact "kvartals" i.e. 19-20. Check this out to get more idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bykivnia_graves
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According to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) record Yevtukh brothers were buried in sections 19 and 20 of the Bykyvnia forest which was used as a cemetery."
The word quarter does not make sense since there are at most 4 quarters to make a whole.
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There are several things that aren’t clear to me. For example, they are called Ivanovych first and Yevtukh later. Siblings in one place, brothers in another. Also, saying that one of the accusations that was filed “is the attendance ..” isnt good English and doesn’t make much sense, since “attendance” isn’t a crime. Also, someone wouldn’t be punished because of “accusations” that he committed a crime, but for committing a crime. Also, why would both brothers be executed if only one committed a crime? And why was the one who wasn’t accused of a crime executed before the one who was? And why is the one executed last mentioned first?
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I think you could revise the sentence to read:
... the Yevtukh brothers are buried in sections* 19 and 20 of the Bykyvnia forested area.
*Called "kvartals" in Ukrainian.
https://www.cem.va.gov/cem/grants/burial_areas.asp
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I think that adding 'the' to the sentence makes it more clear that you are indicating a particular section of the forest...
"Yevtukh brothers were buried in the 19-20 quarter sections of Bykyvnia forested area." or if the 19 and 20 sections are separate, you could say "Yevtukh brothers were buried in the 19th and 20th quarter sections of Bykyvnia forested area."
(on a side note, that is fascinating information about the graves!)
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"Were buried in a mass grave that was in the the two Kvartals numbered 19 and 20".
Because there is no translation between an English quarter (of something) and a kvartal, it would be best to use the original Russian /Ukranian word and put a footnote in the document. To explain.
I suspect the Russian Kvartal uses quarter in the same way as a "quarter" (area) in a city possible?
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