CURRENT MISSION

go ahead, exploring the world

ABOUT ME

OOOps! It's quite bewildering question))) I like hiking, bike riding, mountaineering, downhill and cross-country skiing, swimming in the ice hole, chatting with people. Now I am a PhD student at Southern Illinois University, in Physics. I am out-going, cheerful adventurer. Recently started taking Salsa classes...

PHILOSOPHY

Living life as it is meant: outside in the wild.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

May be I am not original, but I guess that CS is great opportunity for people to share their ideas, to get acquainted with other people and their customs, experience and life per se. No one tourist guide makes for you as much as CS could, because it is non-profit project. Therefore, it is the happiness for both surfers and hosts. I, in turn, try to pay people back with my life experience, easy-going character and good sense of humor...

I am trying to do as much for my guests as possible…

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Luckily, I have experience hosting open-minded people, who liked traveling, chatting, sharing amusing stories.
In spite of fact that I mostly was a host for other CSers, I guess they really enriched my life and I am really thankful to them!

Interests

Travelling for sport goals. Travelling for sighting and communications. Music, food, books, good classical films... Surely, interesting people.

• books
• dining
• cooking
• movies
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• adventure races
• mountaineering
• skiing
• sports
• swimming
• communications
• physics
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

All movies by Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, Emir Kusturica
Some oldschool Jazz Music: Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie
Music: Wolfgang Mozart, Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alizbar, Djivan Gasparian...
Poetry: Wystan Auden, Joseph Brodsky, Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I’ve been to Arctic and Africa for ski expeditions))))
It was really cool!

Teach, Learn, Share

I want to get to know peculiarities of other cultures, countries and I am ready to share mine.
Teach. I can cook something Russian for you. Hiking and mountaineering. I also can teach you how to make a paper airplane of you notebook on physics)
Share. Everything I have and can (maybe sounds a litle bit superficial but it's true)

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