My name is Dinar, I'm 21 years old. I live and study in St. Petersburg at the Economics Faculty of St. Petersburg State University. I was born in the city of Kazan (the sixth city of Russia), which is located in the Republic of Tatarstan. I'm Tatar and thus I grew up surrounded by both Russian and Tatar culture.

I like to discover something new and study how people live in other places. Most of all I'm impressed by nature and cities. I love the blue sea, green forests, bright sun and white snow. In cities I aspire to see what others do not see. I turn around the corners and go along unpopular streets.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Firstly, I want to communicate with people and to see new places with the locals. Secondly, I'm student and that's why I don't have so much money for hotels :)

Interests

In the autumn of 2017, I created my blog (http://dinarkino.ru/), where I write about what I do. The blog is completely in Russian, however I will try to write here about my key activities of recent times.

1) I'm an exchange student at Keio University (Tokyo, Japan) till February of 2018. During this time, I'm discovering Japan and its unique cultural features.
2) I'm shooting a movie about Tokyo. I have no experience in shooting, but I'm very interested. I use only an iPhone with a stabilizer. I study everything from the beginning.
3) In the future, I would like to be engaged in programming, and so now I'm taking an online programming courses to enter the masters next year.

• traveling
• music
• calligraphy
• photo
• cinema
• underground
• it
• urbanism

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: lo-fi, chillout, dream pop, russian undergraund, indie; but I'm open to any music and in different times I listened almost everything. My Last.fm page: https://www.last.fm/ru/user/figobobname

Cinema: Emmanuel Lubezki, Wong Kar-Wai, Terrence Malick, and dozens of other directors. I love cinema and everything about it.

Literature: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Haruki Murakami, Gabriel García Márquez and many others. I also like some business books about management, companies and leadership (for example, "Good to Great" of James C. Collins).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I jumped hundreds of times from the roofs of buildings to snowdrifts, lay in the snow, somersaulted and even ate it! :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

1) Russian culture. I'm well acquainted with the culture of Russia and I was in different parts of the country. Moreover, I'm very interested in the Soviet Union and its atmosphere. I could tell a lot about life in Russia
2) Russian language. I'm fluent in Russian and could teach you interesting phrases;)
3) Cinema and photography. I know a lot about cinematography and could advise hundreds of good films
4) I know a lot about management, leadership, team building. I am very interested in the topic of people's relationships, both at the personal level and in the team

Countries I’ve Visited

Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, San Marino, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, Russian Federation