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Hi! My name is Alsou and I nice to meet u. I live in Moscow under 10 years. I was born in small city named Ulyanovsk (Lenin's birthplace, when it was Simbirsk). I have been everywhere in Russia : Kazan , Sochi , Mineral Waters, Kislovodsk, Gornoaltaisk, Murmansk (city near Finland), Cheboksari, Ekaterinburg , Krasnoyarsk , Irkutsk (city near Mongolia and China) , Yakutsk , Vladivostok (city near Japan) , Ujnosahalinsk , Petropavlovk Kamchatsky, Magadan. I celebrated New Year party in Washington DC, Los Angeles, Lisboa and Prague. I celebrated Birthday in Amsterdam, Indonesia and California. I like to travel and meet new friends from all over the world 🌎

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Improve my English, discover new spots, meet different people from over the world

Interests

• literature
• theater
• fashion
• photography
• concerts
• music festivals
• dancing
• cooking
• wine tasting
• fitness
• yoga
• walking
• yachting
• traveling
• hiking
• skiing
• snowboarding
• history
• languages
• wine tourism
• mountains
• art
• nature
• bars
• longboarding
• movie
• stand up comedy
• driving
• galleries
• discovering
• skating
• serials
• restaurants
• bycicle
• futurism
• table games
• exibitions
• mini golf
• arhitecture
• museams
• parfume

Music, Movies, and Books

Visited concerts: Anna von Hausswolff ( Berlin, winter 2024), Muse ( Paris , summer 2023) , Tame Impala (Los Angeles, autumn 2021), Justin Timberlake ( Washington DC , winter 2019), Sia, Kodaline , The Kooks , The Foals, alt-j, фестиваль рок над Волгой 2012 ( Limp Bizkit, Garbage, Zaz, Ленинград, Сплин, Mordor, Чайф, Би-2, Ночные Снайперы, Ю-Питер, Король и Шут, Аквариум, Машина Времени, британцы Skunk Anansie, Звуки Му, ДДТ, Тарья Турунен, Кипелов, Алиса, Океан Эльзы, АукцЫон) , Наадя, Ludovico Einaudi , Akira Yamaoka

Favorite books 10 years ago : Dreiser («Genius", "The Financier"), Hugo ("Les Miserables"), Gabriel Garcia Marquez ("One Hundred Years of Solitude") , M. Bulgakov ("The Master and Margarita"), R.M. Remarque ("Arc de Triomphe", "Life on Borrow", "Three Comrades", "Shelter of Dreams", "Station on the Horizon"), Chuck Palahniuk ("Fight Club", "Invisible People", "Asphyxiation"), O. Wilde ( "The Picture of Dorian Gray"), C. Bronte ("Jane Eyre"), O. Balzac ("Shagreen Skin"), K. McCullough ("The Thorn Birds"), M. Puzo ("The Godfather"), D. Salinger (“The Catcher in the Rye”), Bradbury («Dandelion Wine»), I. Goncharov (“Oblomov”), A.S. Griboedov (“Woe from Wit”), A.P. Chekhov ("The Cherry Orchard", stories), M. Gorky ("Old Woman Izergil"), A. Saint-Exupery ("The Little Prince"), L. Tolstoy ("Childhood. Adolescence. Youth", "After the Ball"), M. Lermontov ("Hero of Our Time", "Mtsyri"), I. Turgenev ("Asya", "Mumu", "Fathers and Sons"), A. Pushkin ("The Captain's Daughter", "Ruslan and Lyudmila", "Poltava", "Boris Godunov", "Dubrovsky", "Station Warden"), N. Gogol ("Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka", "Taras Bulba" , "The Inspector General", "Dead Souls"), F. Dostoevsky ("Crime and Punishment"), G. Tukay (fairy tales), N. Kozlov ("How to treat yourself and people"), D. Vitale ("Manual to life, which they forgot to give you at birth"), T. Ismailova ("Talking about you"), A. Haley ("Airport"), E. Gilbert (Eat. Pray. Love"). Poetry: Ballad of a smoky carriage (A. Kochetkov), A. S. Pushkin, M. Tsvetaeva, A. Akhmatova, B. Pasternak, Tyutchev, M. Lermontov, I. Brodsky, A. Blok, S. Yesenin, Mayakovsky, Mandelstam, E. Asadov, M. Jalil, B. Akhmadulina, B. Okudzhava, Vysotsky, E. Evtushenko, R. Rozhdestvensky, V. Polozkova

Favourite movies 10 years ago: Luc Besson (Angel-A, Leon, Taxi, Joan of Arc, The Fifth Element, Wasabi, Yamakashi, The Transporter, Michel Vaillant: Need for Speed, Arthur and the Minimoys), Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, The Fountain), Christopher Nolan (Remember, Batman, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception, Interstellar), Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List, Men in Black, Saving Private Ryan, Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can, Terminal, War of the Worlds, Bridge of Spies), Martin Scorsese (Gangs of New York, Shutter Island), Edward Zwick (Love and Other Medicines, Pawn Sacrifice), Quentin Tarantino (From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction), Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris, Vicky Christie Barcelona, ​​Irrational Man"), James Cameron (Titanic, Avatar, Sanctum), Tim Burton (Sleepy Hollow, Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Eyes), David Fincher (Seven, Fight Club, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Social Network, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Gone Girl), Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, Majestic), Ridley Scott (G.I. Jane, Gladiator, A Good Year, Tristan and Isolde), Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, Crew), The Wachowskis (The Matrix, V for Windetta, Cloud Atlas), Bryan Singer (X-Men, Operation Valkyrie), Peter Weir (The Truman Show), Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), Cameron Crowe (Vanilla Sky, Aloha), Gabriele Muccino (7 lives, A man in great demand), Jean Pierre Genet (Amelie, The Long Engagement), Tenderness, Just Together, Mister Nobody, American History X, 6th sense, Intuition, Ghost, Into the Wild, Stay, Planet K-Pax, Princess Mononoke, 1+1, Little Nicolas, Choristers, Chocolate, Trance, Tourist, Johnny D, The Rum Diary, The Great Gatsby, Wanted, 50 First Dates, Duplex, 99 francs, Pearl Harbor, Alexander, Sweet November , P.s. I love you, The Oath, 500 Days of Summer, Whale, The Butterfly Effect, What Dreams May Come, Filming Rules: Hitch Method, Constantine, Devil's Advocate, Knocking on Heaven's Door, Handsome Man, The Illusionist, Judge, Words, The Book Thief, Good Will Hunting, Desert Flower , Frida, The Book of Eli, Jane Austen, The Age of Adaline, The Long Road, Love in Words and Pictures, Malena, The Third Star, Until I Played the Box, And In My Soul I'm Dancing, The Pursuit of Happiness, Children Under 16, Shattered, Stone, Sword Bearer, Inadequate People, Hachiko, Closed Spaces, Island, What Women Want, Weirder Than Fiction, Pay Someone Else, Boy in Striped Pajamas, My First Wedding, Slavin's Lucky Number, Ocean's 13, Young and Beautiful, Pianist, Dear John, My Blueberry Nights, Wife The Time Traveler, The Notebook, Fall in Love with Me If You Dare, Barefoot on the Pavement, The Lake House, Hearts in Atlantis, The Price of Betrayal, 12 Years a Slave, 12, Valli, The Invisible, The Reader, Van Helsing, Van Helsing, Interview with a Vampire, Casanova, Cocaine, The Universe Through the Eyes of Stephen Hawking, Child from Mars, Letter to You, Between Heaven and Earth, 10 Things I Hate About You, Meet Joe Black, Taste of Life, The Fault in Our Stars, Now Is the Time , Men, Women and Children, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rain Man, Serena, Groundhog Day, In the Land of Blood and Honey, Australia, Memoirs of a Geisha, Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon, Coco de Chanel, House of Flying Daggers

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I could cook Red Velvet cake.

Teach, Learn, Share

For example, I could teach u Russian or Tatar language. I can tell you a lot about Russian and Tatar history and culture, show you interesting spots according your interests: exhibitions, theatres, restaurants , bars , rooftops, mini golf parks near Moskva river ⛳️

What I Can Share with Hosts

Instagram go.so.mnoi

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Maldives, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation