Need help - abbreviation (Russian)

[Irina Ustinova]

At 03:14 PM 12/21/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>My brother (a trombonist) has been invited to play some concerts and do
>some master classes in Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata) this spring.  He has now
>received the official "priglashenie," and I'm translating it for him.  No
>problems except one:  an abbreviation.  From the context it's clear, but
>can anyone possibly help me with this:
>
>[name] . . . provedet master-klass, budet predsedatelem GEK.  [That's E
>oborotnoje in the middle.]


GEK- gosydarstvennaya ekzamenatsionnaya komissiya
>
>I assume it means the jury committee, i.e., the faculty group that will
>listen to the graduating students' performances and decide on their passing
>marks.  But I'd like to know exactly what it is so I can do a good
>translation.

You are right. GEK is at the end of the academic year for those students who
graduate this year

Irena Ustinova
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>Thanks (ot imeni mojego brata it ot menja samogo....)!
>
>Jerry Ervin
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