About some aspects and nuances of translation from French into Russian

Translation has been traditionally an object of linguistic research. A command of translation literacy is a crucial condition and a task for the translator. Translation as a search for semantic equivalence presupposes a high level of professional linguistic competence, a sufficient set of expertise in the required field, and an intensive research of the sphere whose scope the translated material covers. Therein lies the linguistic culture combining creativity, a sense of language and its stylistic colouring and unconditional knowledge of the Russian language and its specificity. To be professionally literate means to be able to adequately transfer the content, meaning and subtleties of the source material to the target language. The translator’s weakening the stylistic colouring or substituting the modified expressive means can often lead to a change in the expressiveness of a particular segment of the text, and possibly, of the content. Our study examines some aspects and nuances of translation from French into Russian, actualizes the issue of using Russian lexical and phraseological units which are equivalent and unequal in meaning. Over the centuries, the French language has not lost its characteristic clarity and precision, therefore the result of a qualified translation is the preservation of the authentic style, terminology and colour.