Introduction. In the modern conditions, a technical interpreter becomes one of the key figures in the production. Interpreter speech competence units study is becoming actual. Purpose: defining and classifying the English-Russian interpretations speech strategies used by technical interpreter. Materials and methods. Oral discourse served as the material for the re-search, performed by the method of discourse analysis. Results, discussion. Seven most common speech strategies are iden-tified: Preservation of process continuity is selecting the most accurate and concise equivalent; A capacious reduction is the cutting off of redundant elements of the message; Filling in the available gaps is a skillful perifrasis in case of ignorance of details, timely access to technical means (in the field – mobile Internet); Politeness, preservation of contact – cutting off the excessively emotional elements of discourse that do not carry semantic load; Control over the topic – the use of uniform de-signs and equivalents throughout the transfer situation; Transfer is an operation in which parts of the target language must have the source-language value. Conclusion. These materials can be used in teaching translation, in improving the skills of an interpreter, in practical studies in philology, translation, translation studies.