CURRENT MISSION

Travel around the world and meet a lot of interesting people

ABOUT ME

When I started this Couchsurfing age, I was an adventure-seeking Russian student doing an exchange program in Marburg, Germany. My intention was to use this as an opportunity to travel around the world, see lots of amazing places, have all kinds of experiences and get to know as many interesting people as possible. I made it possible and travelled throughout the whole Europe and even reached Africa. Now I have started working in the Moscow office of an international law firm (so to say, settled down a bit), but am still an adventurer inside.

PHILOSOPHY

Dudeism :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

meeting amazing people

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have met some nice people via CS and had great adventures!

Interests

Drinking vodka and riding my bear while playing balalaika
(only joking)

Actually, I am interested in lots of things:
politics, history, law, comparative linguistics, religion and atheism, literature, architecture, independent cinematography, music (singing, playing the guitar, piano and listening to it), sports (all kinds of), personal development, discussion techniques, psychology, gender relations, self-improvement, experimenting on one's lifestyle and perception, phenomenology of pop-culture and counterculture, futurology, rational thinking, phenomenology of the Internet, social media, startups, marketing, social projects, gonzo-journalism and many more things

And, of course, I love travelling around the world, meeting new people, getting into unpredictable situations and acquiring memorable experiences!

• culture
• literature
• singing
• architecture
• drinking
• politics
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• piano
• sports
• communications
• history
• journalism
• law
• psychology
• religion

Music, Movies, and Books

Fav. directors: Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, Guy Ritchie, Cristopher Nolan, Vachovsky Bros., Coen Bros., Mark Zakharov

Fav. music: Chopin, Beethoven, Prokofiev, Rakhmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Davis, Coltraine, The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, David Bowie, Tom Waits, Pink Floyd, Scorpions, Radiohead (!), RHCP (!), The Cure, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, Joy Division, Depeche Mode, Portishead, The White Stripes, The Black Keys, Fatboy Slim, Linkin Park, Interpol, Ghinzu, Of Monsters and Men, Bon Iver, 65dos, GYTBE, Dale Cooper Quartet, Kino, Billy's Band, Pompeya and many more artists in the genres such as post-punk, indie rock, indietronica, synthpop, dark jazz, trip-hop, post-rock, space rock and even abstract hip-hop

Fav. writers: Lermontov, Tolstoi, Dostoevsky, Hugo, Dumas, Wilde, Wodehouse, Dreiser, Salinger, Márquez, Hesse, Camus, Remarque, Kafka, Vonnegut, Updike, Kundera, Tolkien, Exupery, Bach, Bradbury, Bukowski, Rowling, Martin, Murakami, Fry, Ilf & Petrov, Pelevin, Turov

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I think that my adventure is only beginning)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you all kinds of typical Russian stuff: to drink vodka, use AK-Kalashnikov and wear a shapka-ushanka)
And lots of things connected with my interests as well

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, France, Germany, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Kazakhstan, Russian Federation

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