The Department of Translation Studies at the University of Helsinki has launched a project to compile a Finnish-Russian forestry →dictionary, which will be based on students' M.A. theses. In addition to →terms and their →equivalents, it will contain →definitions, explanations, contexts and perhaps also comments.
The biggest problem is the abundance of conceptual differences between Finnish and Russian, which is partly due to the fact that Russian forest science was isolated from the western world for seven decades. Differences manifest themselves both in →partial equivalence of Finnish and Russian →terms, and in the existence of a large number of Finnish →concepts for which there is no →term in Russian. Consequently, suggestions have to be made with the help of Russian forest specialists.
The principal sources of information are parallel texts in Finnish and Russian, and also Finnish and Russian experts in different fields of forestry.