It's hard to describe anything without ability to look at it from a distance so I hope my references are descriptive enough :)

But in case they are not: I am calm, open-minded, and friendly person with a good sense of humour. Not very talkative, generally I prefer to listen rather than to speak (though I'm always ready to keep up a good conversation).

Unfortunately, my current place isn't suitable for hosting people. But I'm looking forward to start hosting again.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

CS offers a good opportunity to see the foreign world from the inside: not only to visit new places and watch previously unseen sightseeings, but also to feel regular life of people that differ from you.

CS opens a new perspective in travels. And I'm equally glad to open this perspective either for myself or for my guests and hosts.

Interests

In addition to the tags listed below:
I play video and board games.
I'm a fan of Arsenal FC.
I practice Muay Thai.
I play in a competitive version of What? Where? When? (Russian intellectual game).
I like metal concerts.

• literature
• soccer
• geography
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Dark Tranquillity is definitely my favourite band. But it's hard to describe my music preferences in general. I like a music from a different genres (rap, melodic death and black metal, folk, progressive rock, blues...) and cannot define what is common in my preferred pieces of music (except the fact that all of them are good indeed :) ).

My favourite non-Russian films are Dogville, The Pan's Labyrinth, Underground (Kusturica), Artificial Intelligence, Before Sunrise/Before Sunset/Before Midnight.

And about books: The Little Prince, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion, The Old Man and the Sea, The Foundation Pit; Saint-Exupery, Vonnegut, and Jack London in general.

Teach, Learn, Share

I have a lot of unsystematic knowledges: I can tell why user password shouldn't be stored on a server in an encrypted form, why the voiceless interdental fricative sound doesn't exist in Spanish of Latin America; I know how to pronounce Eyjafjallajökull and so on.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can cook something and help with Russian (although I'm neiher a linguist nor a philologist I have some "special" knowledge about my native language).

I can share my programming experience.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belarus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Iran, Italy, Russian Federation, Sweden, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation