Hülya Arslan graduated from the Department of Russian Language and Literature of Ankara University in 1988. She completed her master’s degree at the Pushkin State Language Institute and her doctorate at Moscow State University. At present, she teaches at Yeditepe University, Department of Russian Language and Literature. Hülya has translated Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago (Yapikredi Yayinlari, 2014) and A Story (Yapikredi Yayinlari, 2020), as well as Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (Kolektif Kitap, 2018) into Turkish.