VKontakte

The initial impulse for both of his companies has stemmed, Durov says, from satisfying a personal need: the wish to communicate with his university friends in the case of VKontakte, and the necessity of creating a secure messaging system with Telegram.

杜罗夫说，他创建两家公司的最初动力，是满足个人需求：想和大学朋友交流的愿望使他创建了VKontakte，打造一个安全消息系统的必要性让他创建了Telegram。

Like Zuckerberg, the boyish tech entrepreneur from St Petersburg created his country's most popular social network, VKontakte, which revolutionised the Russian internet.

像扎克伯格一样，这位来自圣彼得堡、带着孩子气的科技企业家创建了俄罗斯最具人气的社交网络VKontakte，为俄罗斯互联网带来了革命性变化。

facebook faces large, established competitors, including japan's mixi, tencent qq in china and vkontakte of russia.

Facebook将面临强大而成熟的竞争对手，其中包括日本的Mixi、中国的腾讯QQ，以及俄罗斯的Vkontakte。

He founded a social network, VKontakte, which is more popular in Russia than Facebook, and made a splash by publicly offering Edward Snowden a job.

他创建了社交网站VKontakte，在俄罗斯比Facebook更受欢迎。他还因为公开为爱德华·斯诺登（Edward Snowden）提供工作机会而引起轰动。

He wanted a means of communicating securely with his 34-year-old brother Nikolai, a mathematician and engineer who helped found VKontakte and later developed the encryption code for the Telegram app.

他想要一种能与哥哥安全通讯的方式。杜罗夫的哥哥尼古拉（Nikolai）34岁，是一名数学家和工程师，他帮助杜罗夫创建了VKontakte，后来又为Telegram应用开发了加密代码。

The Bears, one of the translating groups at Russia's most popular social network platform VKontakte, said the audience of Chinese TV series has grown noticeably in the last 12 months.

“小熊字幕组”是俄罗斯最受欢迎的社交网络平台VKontakte上的一个翻译小组，据其介绍，在过去的12个月，中国电视剧的观众数量有着显著的增长。

He also recruited fellow linguistics students to build a database catering to the post-Soviet university system, a step he said gave VKontakte "a tremendous competitive advantage."

他还找来语言学专业的同学，针对苏联解体后的大学体系建立了一个数据库。此举给Vkontakte带来了“巨大的竞争优势”，他说。

Mr. Durov learned programming from his brother, Nikolai, a mathematician and Mr. Durov's right-hand man at VKontakte and Telegram.

杜罗夫向哥哥尼古拉（Nikolai）学会了编程。尼古拉是一名数学家，也是杜罗夫在VKontakte和Telegram的得力助手。

Durov is the CEO of Vkontakte, or "In Contact," Russia's most popular social networking site and considered that country's equivalent to Facebook.

杜罗夫是俄罗斯最受欢迎的社交网站“接触网”的创始人，该网站被称为俄版Facebook。