I'm open-minded and always ready to help
We haven't hosted for 4 years now, and finally decided to open the doors of our apartment for travellers again.

!!! DISCLAIMER !!!
My husband and I don't eat pork and we kindly ask our guests NOT to bring any pork containing products into our house (such as dumplings, sausages, hamburgers, pyanse (local pastry), etc.) OR NOT to cook pork/pork containing products in our apartment. Everything we cook is PORK-FREE. So please respect us, our home and our rule

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Sometimes we depend on other people as a mirror to define us and tell us who we are and each reflection makes me like myself a little more [quote]

I mostly host rather than surf.
Now I live with my husband and a dog in a small apartment, so make sure you'll feel comfortable sharing one room before writing a CS request.

My husband's profile (He's a newbie, but he also enjoys CSing): https://www.couchsurfing.org/people/efimefimov/

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I hosted more than 66 CSers:
France 13, Canada 5, South Korea 5, Spain 5, USA 5, Australia 4, Germany 4, Poland 3, Russia 2, Philippines 3, UK 3, China 2, Argentina 1, Belgium 1, Brazil 1, Chech Republic 1, Finland 1, Malaysia 1, Netherlands 1, Portugal 1, Sweden 1, Switzerland 1, Thailand 1, Turkey 1.

I've started to receive many impersonal (just copy/paste) couch requests, so if you want to increase your chance for a couch, please add 'Crazy Turnip' in your CS request. Please, carefully read about my accomodation conditions. ('My Home').

Interests

Art, cooking, dance, music, cinema, dogs, teaching and learning foreign languages, law, culture, slang, travelling, history, photography, dancing salsa, tea and wine

• dogs
• arts
• culture
• writing
• photography
• concerts
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• movies
• traveling
• music
• history
• languages
• law
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: 100 Things; A Beautiful Mind; Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland; Atonement; Autumn in New York; Big Eyes; Black K Klansman; Buffalo 66; Closer; Cougar Town; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Every Day; Fountain; Girl, Interrupted; I Could Never Be Your Woman; Isle of Dogs; Labor Day; Last Night; Lost In Translation; Moulin Rouge; Salmon Fishing In The Yemen; Scrubs; Stardust; Star Wars; The Artist; The Help; The Hundred-Foot Journey; The Notebook; The Words; V For Vendetta; Under The Tuscan Sun; Where Dreams May Come; Japanese cartoons

Music: ABBA, Caetano Veloso, Coldplay, Frederic Francois Chopin, Gipsy Kings, Henry Mancini, Jazz Dance Orchestra, Keane,Lenine, Miriam Makeba, Natalie Imbruglia, Norah Jones, Sonique, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Stacey Kent, Vanessa Paradis, Yann Tiersen, Zizi Possi.
The only Russian music band I adore is Smyslovye Gallyutsinatsii.

Books: Une Vie, Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant, Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler, Toutes Ces Choses Qu'on Ne S'est Pas Dites by Marc Levy, Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Seen: The Swan Lake in Bolshoy Theatre, sunrise and night in Vladivostok.
Done: visiting concerts of my favorite performers (Sophie Ellis Bextor, 30 Seconds to Mars, Sonique, Gipsy Kings, Смысловые галлюцинации), trip to the USA, exploring Ekaterinburg all by myself, crazy independent trip to Morocco in September'13
Professional wine course in 2018

Teach, Learn, Share

I can cook quite well. I can teach how to cook Russian borsch, Korean kimbab and other things. Or we can try to cook something new together!

I can share my food, apartment, time and thoughts.

I can endlessly talk about tea and wine (and sometimes coffee). It's the whole new world

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Philippines, Portugal, Russian Federation, San Marino, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation

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