Live alone, travel alone, not well socialized, but a smart and kind guy anyway :)
I have been living in St. Petersburg all my life, so used to rains, grey sky and depression... kidding :)
I like to smile and laugh, good smart sense of humor from soft irony (including self-irony) to black humor and sarcasm. It helps in life. Despite this I feel that I take life more seriously than most serious people do.

PHILOSOPHY
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.

I also like this one: "Handle so, dass du die Menschheit sowohl in deiner Person, als in der Person eines jeden anderen jederzeit zugleich als Zweck, niemals bloß als Mittel brauchst". Too pity I don't speak German as good as Kant did.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To be able to see new places, meet new people, make new connections.
And I love the very idea that some important things are made not because of money, but to make life better.

Interests

In different periods I had different interests. Now about some of them I can tell a lot, about others - not so much. Anyway I'm always eager to hear from you if you have a passion.
Some examples: electronics, Linux (Ubuntu), Python programming, chess, comparative linguistics and proto-indo-european studies, artificial languages, linguistic purism, nutrition, evolution, applied math.
As a doctor (currently working in internal diseases) I obviously have a great interest in medicine, especially preventive medicine, and those parts of natural sciences which help to understand it better.

• culture
• architecture
• wine
• coffee
• vegetarian
• languages
• mathematics
• medicine
• science
• nature
• zen
• linux

Music, Movies, and Books

Bach, Beethoven, Bruckner, Chopin, Grieg, Liszt, Mahler, Vivaldi, Мусоргский, Рахманинов, Римский-Корсаков, Чайковский.
Argerich, Celibidache, de Larrocha, du Pré, Furtwängler, Horowitz, Landowska, Reiner, Walter, Плетнёв, Рихтер
+ http://www.last.fm/user/kirasole

Some authors: Erich Fromm, William Morris, Karl Marx, Hermann Hesse, Milan Kundera

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Moved to another country for a person I loved. It failed. I would do so again.
Changed my first profession to a completely different one.
I'm looking forward to new amazing things!

Teach, Learn, Share

I learn and study all my life. For many years I felt the need to get more information, more knowledge, more experience, to understand things better. Now it flows slower, I tend more to contemplate life and look for more impressions.

I can't really cook, but I'd like to learn :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

The existence.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, Ukraine