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[[File:Gopalakrishnan and Omana.jpg|thumb|Gopalakrishnan and Omana]]
[[File:Moscow Gopalakrishnans Family.jpg|thumb|Gopalakrishnan, Omana, Latha and Sashi]]
{{Infobox person
| name = Omana
| image = Omana Gopalakrishnan.jpg
| caption = Omana with her son Sashi Nayar
| birth_name = Omana
| birth_date = 26 April 1936
| birth_place =Ettumanoor
| death_date = 22 April 2003
| death_place =Trivandrum
| nationality = [[India]]n
| other_names =
| occupation = [[Translator]]
| known_for =
}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Moscow Gopalakrishnan (K. Gopalakrishnan Nayar)
| image = Moscow Gopalakrishnan.jpg
| caption = K Gopalakrishnan at Russian Cultural Centre in 2010
| birth_name = K Gopalakrishnan Nayar
| birth_date = 29 November 1930
| birth_place = [[Aluva|Alwaye]], [[Ernakulam district]]
| death_date = 21 February 2011
| death_place = [[Trivandrum]]
| nationality = [[India]]n
| other_names =
| occupation = [[Translator]]
| known_for =
}}
'''Omana (Bharathi Amma)''' (1936–2003)''' '''and''' "Moscow" Gopalakrishnan (K. Gopalakrishnan Nayar )''' (1930–2011) was an [[India]]n husband and wife duo noted for their translations of [[Russian language|Russian]] books into [[Malayalam language]]. These translations are sometimes regarded as the best example of [[children's literature]] in Malayalam published in the later half of the 20th century.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-commentary/the-soft-power-of-the-soviet-union/articleshow/7667872.cms?intenttarget=no|title=The soft power of the Soviet Union|date=2011-03-10|work=The Economic Times|access-date=2017-10-19}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/Russian-tales-revisited/article15964249.ece|title=Russian tales revisited|date=2010-01-19|work=The Hindu|access-date=2017-10-19|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> The couple, introducing Russian literature to [[Kerala]], translated nearly 200 books into Malayalam with simple prose and diction.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/2010/jan/19/gopalakrishnan-has-translated-200-russian-books-161920.html|title=Gopalakrishnan has translated 200 Russian books|work=The New Indian Express|access-date=2017-10-19}}</ref>

Both Omana and K Gopalakrishnan were employees of Soviet Information Centre in New Delhi. K Gopalakrishnan, a native of [[Aluva|Alwaye]], was a member of the [[Communist Party of India]] in the late 1950s. He was active in local elections and was the secretary of the local taluk committee for a short period. He was the editor of ''SF Magazine''. He joined ''USSR News and Views'' at the Soviet Information Centre.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.mathrubhumi.com/books/article/news/629/|title=Mathrubhumi - Books--മോസ്‌കോ ഗോപാലകൃഷ്ണന്‍ അന്തരിച്ചു|date=2014-01-13|access-date=2017-10-19|url-status=bot: unknown|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140113091649/http://www.mathrubhumi.com/books/article/news/629/|archivedate=2014-01-13}}</ref> Gopalakrishnan eventually became the joint editor of the ''Soviet Review'' digest at the USSR Information Department.

In 1966, the Soviet government decided to publish Russian writings in Malayalam and the couple was invited to [[Progress Publishers|Progress Printers]] in [[Moscow]] for a two-year project. A Malayalam division was being set up and Progress Publishers needed skilled people to translate Russian works into Malayalam. With their two children, they arrived at Moscow (1966) and started by translating Russian works that had been translated into English. The first of the Russian works translated by the couple were rolled off at a press that was imported from England. Progress Printers was very particular about bringing out books that were attractive to children during this period.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> Later, the couple hired a tutor, Maria Pulyakova - "an old Bolshevik" - to gain better proficiency in Russian.<ref name=":0" /> Progress Publishers later set up the RADUGA division to bring out works of fiction and translations into Malayalam remained with the Omana-Gopalakrishnan team.

For 25 years, the family lived in Moscow and translated a huge amount of Russian literature to Malayalam which included fiction, folk tales, communist classics and propaganda materials. The couple returned to India in 1991. Till his death, K Gopalakrishnan received a pension from the Russian government for his efforts. Omana died in 2003 and K. Gopalakrishnan died in February, 2011 in [[Thiruvananthapuram]]. They have one daughter and one son. Daughter Dr. Latha Bimal is a gynaecologist based in [[Dubai]] and son Sashi Nayar settled in Moscow.

== Translations ==
The Russian books translated by Omana and Gopalakrishnan were published in Malayalam by Prabhath Book House.<ref name=":0" />

=== K Gopalakrishnan ===
{{Quote box
|quote = ''"The magic of these translations - done directly from <br />
''Russian into Malayalam - was such that young readers <br />were effortlessly lifted to a new landscape and made to feel that <br />''the human drama unfolding in an unfamiliar geography <br />''happened in their own backyard."''
|source = Amrith Lal, ''[[The Economic Times]]'' (Mar 10, 2011) [http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-03-10/news/28675614_1_translations-malayalam-russians].
}}

K Gopalakrishnan translated around 80 works to Malayalam<ref name=":2" /> which included 62 works by [[Karl Marx]], [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Vladimir Lenin]], 25 political works, four works on science, 19 books on fiction and 26 children’s works.<ref name=":0" /> That include,

* ''[[The Mother (1906 novel)|The Mother]]'' by [[Maxim Gorky]]
* The Autobiography of Maxim Gorky
* ''[[Resurrection (Tolstoy novel)|Resurrection]]'' by [[Leo Tolstoy]]
* ''[[White Nights (short story)|White Nights]]'' by [[Fyodor Dostoyevsky]]
* Books of [[Anton Chekhov]]

=== Omana Gopalakrishnan ===
Omana Gopalakrishnan translated 40 children’s books and 16 other works of fictions.<ref name=":0" /> That include,

* ''The Ant and the Cosmonaut''
* ''The White Deer''
* ''[[Anna Karenina]]'' by [[Leo Tolstoy]] (not published, "It was her major translation. We were in Moscow at the time. She had handed over her work to her editor, a Russian lady. But then, USSR fell. Progress Publishers, which used to publish the works, closed down. We also returned to India in 1991", says K Gopalakrishnan. Later, during a visit to Moscow after the death of Omana, Gopalakrishnan looked up the editor. "She searched for the manuscript. But she told me that it was burnt".)<ref name=":0" />

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