lazy translator addicted to hiking, languages and martial arts

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Two best ways of travelling that I discovered during my life - hitchhiking and couchsurfing, what can be more exciting?

Interests

Procrastination.

• literature
• yoga
• classical music
• folk music
• jazz
• cycling
• hiking
• anthropology
• languages
• feminism
• mountain climbing
• bjj
• old movies
• mixed martial arts
• grappling

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Joyce, Dostoyevsky, Cortаzar, Nabokov, Zizek, Hemingway, Brodsky, Umberto Eco, Steinbeck, Borges, French Symbolism, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Jorge Amado, Mario Vargas Llosa, Juan Gabriel Vázquez.

Movies: Tarkovsky, Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Fellini, Pazolini, Mark Zakharov, Robert Bresson, François Truffaut, Derek Jarman, Aamir Khan, Iranian movies.

Music: Radiohead, Imagine Dragons, Daddy Yankee, Apocalyptica, Frank Sinatra, Karl Jenkins, Depeche Mode, the Doors, Måneskin, Velvet Underground, Bjork, Coltrane, Al Turath Ensemble, Russian rock, Kurdish traditional music, Sima Bina, Yiddish songs, flamenco, bossa nova, Clara Nunes, Alcione, Beth Carvalho, Juanes, Carrapicho, Irish folk, Tri Yann, UDU, Divna Ljuboevic, Sigur Ros, Laboratorium Piesni, Tom Waits, medieval ballads.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Driving in Wadi Rum desert
Solo hitchhiking in more than 45 countries from Portugal to Mongolia
Climbed mountains Elbrus (5621) and Kazbek (5033)

What I Can Share with Hosts

My fucking awesome travel stories 😀

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, Ukraine