Heyyy! Welcome to my profile!

I live in Saint Petersburg, Russian former capital, cradle of both revolutions, but my roots are 3k km south of it: in the mountains of Dagestan.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Solo traveling is cool, but it gets depressing if you're alone for a long time. With CS I hope to meet more people along the way.

Hope to host travelers in SPb in near future

Interests

Always curious to learn something new whether it's a new music genre or another country's culture. As a traveler I visit countries that I find particularly interesting, i.e. I know it's history or I am interested about current situation in the area.

• guitar
• piano
• history
• trains
• philosphy
• ethnography
• watching news

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Bach, Buxtehude, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Stockhausen, King Crimson, Kazuki Tomokawa, Sonic Youth, Swans, Coil, Егор Летов, Portishead, Matt Elliott, Aesop Rock, Death Grips, Sumac, ethnic music and military marches

Films: Andrei Tarkovsky, Stanley Kubrick, Tsai Ming-Liang, Miklós Jancsó, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Wong Kar-Wai, Werner Herzog, Robert Bresson, Satyajit Ray, Christopher Nolan

Literature: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Knut Hamsun, Yukio Mishima, Kōbō Abe, William Shakespeare, Vasily Rozanov, Vladimir Nabokov

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Slipped on a banana peel in Delhi

Teach, Learn, Share

Can share my language and a lot of cool, but useless information (like did you know that there is no country on Earth with pink color on it's flag?)

Countries I’ve Visited

China, India, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation