What's your occupation? - Chem Vy zanimayetes'?
Do you work? - Vy rabotayete?
Do you study? - Vy uchites'?
I work - Ya rabotayu
I don't work - Ya ne rabotayu
I study - Ya uchus'
What's your profession? - Kakaya u Vas professiya?
I am an engineer - Ya inzhener
a worker - rabochy
a doctor - vrach
a teacher - uchitel'
a businessman - biznesmen
an actor - artist
a driver - voditel'
a secretary - sekretar'
a scientist - ucheny
a student - student
an artist - khudozhnik
a writer - pisatel'
an interpreter - perevodchik
a programmer - programmist
a shop assistant - prodavets
We are colleagues - My kollegi
I work at a plant - Ya rabotayu na zavode
at a bank - v banke
at school - v shkole
at hospital - v bolnitse
at institute - v institute
at theatre - v teatre
at museum - v muzeye
at shop - v magazine
at office - v ofise
at publishing house - v izdatel'stve
I study at school - Ya uchus' v shkole
at the institute - v institute
at the university - v universitete
at college - v kolledzhe
What faculty do you study at? - Na kakom fakul'tete vy uchites'?
I study at the economical faculty - Ya uchus' na ekonomicheskom fakul'tete
mathematical - matematicheskom
phylological - filologicheskom
law - yuridicheskom
historical - istoricheskom
chemical - khimicheskom
biological - biologicheskom
I am a housewife - Ya domokhozyayka
He is a pensioner - On pensioner
I'm a trade union member - Ya chlen profsoyuza
I am a non-Party man - Ya bespartiyny
Are you a believer? - Vy veruyushchy?
I am an Orthodox church member - Ya pravoslavny
Catholic - katolik
Protestant - protestant
Moslem - musul'manin
Buddhist - buddist
Jew - iudey
Atheist - ateist
