CURRENT MISSION

Broadening horizons for myself and others interested by means of learning different cultures and understanding their ways of life and social reasons behind that.

ABOUT ME

I’m very energetic and positive. Love travelling to remote places and see non-touristic sides of a country. I want to see as much as possible, so abroad I usually I walk myself to death and prefer to put off sleep until I'm home :)

I work as a travel agent for southern Africa self-drive safaris. I love my job because I like sharing my experience and help people get the most valuable experience when traveling.

PHILOSOPHY

Each one of us is influenced by all people we meet in our lives, thus making us who we are. The more people you meet the more broad-minded person you become. Couchsurfing contributes to this idea as nothing else.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I live with flatmates, so can host only when they are away. But I would love to show those interested around Moscow that has become a very beautiful and interesting city for the past few years.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Almost none. Hope that's not for a long time :)

Interests

self-improvement, psycology, traveling, photography, cinema, sailing, music festivals.

• photography
• music festivals
• festivals
• cooking
• meditation
• movies
• traveling
• music
• sailing
• languages
• self improvement
• polyamory

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: extremely broad range, starting from jazz to dark trance, brit-pop to lounge, trip-hop to punk. As long as music has soul of its own, the genre doesn't matter.
Favourites - Daft Punk, Muse, Aphex Twin, Dire Straits, Мумий Тролль, Shpongle, Jamiroquai, Leonard Cohen, Bonaparte, Zero 7, Last Shadow Puppets, Браво, Земфира, Scissor Sisters, Royksopp, Jose Padilla, The Whitest Boy Alive, Nighthawks, Norah Jones, Four Tet, Nina Simone, Parov Stelar, Tosca, Blank & Jones, Husky Rescue, Tori Amos, Tina Dickow, Yonderboi, All India Radio (the band, not the radio :)), Morcheeba, Nouvelle Vague, Travis, Massive Attack, LCD Soundsystem, Beirut, Angus & Julia Stone, Two Door Cinema Club, The Kooks, Foster The People, Stereophonics, Feist, Phoenix, WhoMadeWho...

Movies: American Beauty, Fight Club, Inglorious Bastards, Into The Wild, Amelie, to name just a few. Pretty much any Tarantino/Ritchie/Burton/Snyder/Coens/Allen movie

I don't have much time to read and I'm upset about it. Anyway my all-time favourite is The Collector by John Fowles.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A trip to Burning Man!

What I Can Share with Hosts

I think I could teach photography for beginners (because I'm kinda advanced, but not as much as I want to be) and cook Russian dishes :) I can share my knowledge on traveling around SouthEast Asia (I traveled quite extensively there).
I have some knowledge about different meditation practices, and would be happy to share it to those interested.
Also, since I majored in linguistics, I could be useful in languages.

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belgium, Cambodia, China, Croatia, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Laos, Latvia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Myanmar, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Russian Federation, Thailand