I moved to one of the most beautiful cities in Russia two years ago from the small and cold town in Siberia. I came here to get a higher education like a majority of young people. I study TV-direction, in other words I’m a director of documentary films. It’s very interesting! However, if you ask me about what I really want to do, I will answer: to work in press - write about cultural events, literature, interviews with famous people (no politics!!).

I had been studying classical and folk dances during 10 years. I like cross stitching :)

I have been studying English from my 4 year at school, but it’s still difficult for me to express my thoughts!! I don’t know why, but this is my Achilles heel! So I'm trying to learn Italian on my own. Wish me good luck, please!)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I think that the main treasure of any country is the local people. I want to get acquainted with the lifestyle of local people! Soulless and cold hotels - are not about a real journey!

Music, Movies, and Books

Music - Coldplay, Beck, Tom Waits, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Bjork, The Rapture, Ennio Morricone, Georgy Sviridov, Goran Bregovic, Yasmine Hamdan

Books - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ("The Idiot", "Crime and Punishment"), Vladimir Nabokov ("Laughter in the Dark", "King, Queen, Knave "), Sergei Dovlatov ("Ours", "Craft: A Story in Two Parts ", "A Foreign Woman"), Ivan Turgenev "First Love", Alexander Pushkin "Eugene Onegin", Ivan Goncharov "Oblomov", Alexander Kuprin "Yama: The Pit", Gabriel García Marquez "One Hundred Years of Solitude", Margaret Mitchell "Gone with the Wind", Irvine Welsh "Filth", George Orwell "Nineteen Eighty-Four", Aldous Huxley "Brave New World"

Movies - "Annie Hall" (Woody Allen), "Singin' in the Rain " (Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen), "Bitter Moon" (Roman Polanski), "The Dark Knight" (Christopher Nolan), "The Taming of the Scoundrel" (Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia), "The Naked Island" (Kaneto Shindō), "Blue Valentine" (Derek Cianfrance), "All About Eve" (Joseph Leo Mankiewicz), "Filth" (Jon S. Baird), "Lolita" (Adrian Lyne), "August: Osage Country" (John Wells), "Moulin Rouge!" (Baz Luhrman), "A Streetcar Named Desire" (Elia Kazan), "Whiplash" (Damien Chazelle), "Dancer in the Dark" (Lars von Trier)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I performed a Russian folk dance in front of hundreds of foreigners in Grecce!)

Countries I’ve Visited

Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Kazakhstan, Poland, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation