CURRENT MISSION

travel the world

ABOUT ME

I was born and raised in Russia and moved to New York City when I was 12. I have lived in Manhattan for 12 years. I studied international relations and finance at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School and now working at an emerging markets hedge fund in new york. I do fair a bit of traveling, but always happy to meet new people. I am learning French and Spanish and I would love to practice these languages if you speak them. I also love running, cooking and playing musical instruments.

PHILOSOPHY

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. - Steve Prefontaine (famous american distance runner)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfed:
Rai (Nener) Barcelona - Aug 2007

Met:
Thomas - Tours, France Jun 2007
Fanny - Tours, France Jun 2007

Hosted: (in New York Apartment)
Lucia/Consuelo (Montreal, QC) Aug '07
Lisa/Simone (Herne, Germany) Aug '07
Henning/Matthias (Hamburg, Germany) Aug'07
Misha (Moscow, Russia) Aug '07
Aleksey O. (France, NC Nov '07)
Marino A. (Santo Domingo, DR May '10)
Rebecca I. (Oslo, Norway '12)

Hosted in Philadelphia:
Jana/Isabelle (Germany) Oct '07

Hosted in St. Petersburg
Craig Rubin(US) June '08
George Georgiev (US) June '08
Alex Klimenko (Ukraine) July '08
Aleksa Radzishevskaya (Russia) July '08

Interests

Learning languages, distance running, travel

• cooking
• running
• traveling
• international relations
• languages
• tours

Music, Movies, and Books

- L'auberge Espagnole, Wag the Dog, Lord of War
- Bi2 (Russian Rock), Parov Stelar, K'naan
- The World is Flat, L'Etranger, Fathers and Sons

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

cleaned 7 tons of garbage of the slopes of mountain elbrus, ran half way across Russia for charity along the trans siberian railroad

Countries I’ve Visited

France, India, Kyrgyzstan, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Norway, Russian Federation, United States