CURRENT MISSION

To open mind through travelling and communicating

ABOUT ME

Well, it's not so easy to talk about yourself, yeah!?
So, whats about me... I graduated Moscow State University of Civil Engineering. Now I'm working in a small engineering company as a project developer. Though it's not so interesting to talk about work.
Travelling - is by far more interesting topic! :-)
Recently I undertook adventurous journey to 3 countries at 1 time - UAE (Dubai), Japan (at volunteering project) and South Korea. That was the first time I travelled by myself and 1 time in Asia as well. I absolutely loved that journey. I gained so much of different experience.
The main plot of that journey was a volunteering project in Japan. It was so great and so interesting, that I just had no words to describe it.
If year ago someone told me that I'll be going to Japan, to work in some abandoned village on a farms, I would never belive that! If someone told me that I'll be standing in the center of Seoul in S. Korea giving "Free Hugs" I would never belive that too! No way!!!
But it's true! And it was an amazing time of my life!
One thing I know for sure - that was a turning point in my life, the time when I opened my mind to the world. And now I'm constantly trying to be even more open-minded and help people near me to open their minds too. 'Cos I believe it's the only way for people of our modern world to stop stupid hostility and wars, to unite and to start solving more global problems of the world together!

PHILOSOPHY

Discover the world. Open your mind. Gain experience. Then share it with others!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Participating in different event in my city; helping foreigners to taste and to understand Moscow and Russia; destroying stereotypes; travelling and learn about the world and cultures.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Each time that I surfed a couch or just meet/participat in various events it was always great!!! I met friendly, clever and open-minded people, and participated in different activities that made my life more interesting!

Interests

Travelling, reading , listening to music, watching movies. Of sports I like volleyball, small tennis (also I love big tennis, but I've played it just 5 times in my life, but I really liked it). At winter holidays I love going to mountains and do snowboarding there!
But travelling is my passion!
Also there are much interests! I like communicating with people, learning foreign languages, making cultural exchange. I'm very interested in learning of different cultures and their history and dive in it, to feel it in full measure!
Also I love such things as different mysteries of ancient civilization, interesting scientific facts, new gadgets and other interesting stuff. I love astronomy and can talk about the Universe, space and stars very-very long :)
Gosh! I forget one of my main interest - taking photos! I love it, and no matter which technique to use: old or new ones, amateur or professional, digital or analog. It's always interesting!
I'm not sure that it's all my interest, but I'd better stop now :)

• pets
• dining
• boating
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• snowboarding
• sports
• rock climbing
• tennis
• volleyball
• astronomy
• cartography
• teaching
• engineering
• history
• languages
• tourism
• volunteering
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Gosh! there are too many!!! :) I give only several for that post:

Movies:
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Shawshank Redemption
Vita è bella, La (Life is beutiful)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
American Beauty
Barfuss
Love Actually
Big Fish
Edward Scissorhands
Oldboy
Hotaru no haka
The Star Wars saga (of course :) )
and other great films (ask me for more)

Books.
Lord of the rings
Harry Potter
The Dune (Frank Herbert's)
Although I love a lot of science fiction (Aizek Azimov,
Robert Sheckley, Roger Zelazny, Fredric Brown and more...) thats not all my interests. Also there is more from other genres, but it's so much to write down here, so, i wouldn't. :) Just ask me if you want! I like to discuss books!

Music
So much and so different, that i just wouldn't write it here :) One thing that I can say - If I was suddenly teleported to a desert island, and before were asked for just one thing to take, I'd said that I want my Mp3 player :)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-Jumping with a parachute individually, 3 times.
-Moving down on my snowboard from heigh of about 4400m. (It was the "Priyut" station on mount Elbrus - one of the heighest in Europe).
-Helping local farmers in Japanese authentic villages.
-Seeing mt. Fuji-san at dusk.
-Eating live octopus in S. Korea.
- Giving "Free Hugs" at Insadong - Seoul's famous pedestrian street.
-Being caught by dusk and night while hiking in Sorak-san moutains, S. Korea. Then, next day, almost being blown out with hurricane wind while climbing mt. Ulsanbawi rock, in Sorak-san national park.

Actually i think that list is just begins, and amazing things done/seen is yet to come!

***Update***
-Took a trip for 7 months in Asia.
-Extreme 5-day trekking in Tibet in Himalaya mountains, without guide and porters, without preparing, in snowy period between autumn and winter, crossing 2 high-pass on 5250m high.
-Got lost while trekking in mountains and forests of Yunnan province, in China. The food finished on the 4-th day. Luckily on the 5-th day we made it to the civilization.
-Fell down from a motorbike in Vietnam
-Stayed in poor Cambodian house in a distant Cambodian province.
-made 3 awesome multiday motorbike adventures in Laos.
-Going on the boat through the vast dark cave for 3 hours without a daylight but with a boatman and small electrical torch, in Laos.
-Staying with a traditional Laos family in a distant Laos province and seeing elephants as a farming pets.
-Traveled by boat up the Mekong river to Thailand border-crossing and being the only one tourist on the big boat.
-Almost got lost alone in the dark cave in Thailand
-Being an English language teacher for monks in Buddhist monastery in Tha Ton, Thailand.
- 2-day hard trekking in Myanmar without a guide and any maps. Staying overnight in Buddhist monastery on the way.
- a motorbike adventure in Myanmar in a distant territories, riding bad mountain roads with almost falling down into the gorge.

And much much more....

Teach, Learn, Share

Of course I can learn you Russian, if you want! Also I can teach you to use your photocamera in a best way, if you just use Auto mode :)
As for me I would love to learn anything, that you can offer me :)
I would like to share travel stories and experience and cultural exchange.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, China, Croatia, Japan, Laos, Myanmar, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation

•