CURRENT MISSION

grow a beard. get smart.

ABOUT ME

We are young married couple with a cat)
We live near Belyaevo metro station, which is 7th Station from the center of the city, so the way from our flat to Cremlin would take 40 min in whole.
The building we live at is soviet-period (70-s) surrounded by similar soviet architecture and lots of old forest trees, so the whole district looks VERY soviet :)
The flat is two-rooms, with one bathroom and kitchen which are quite tiny. The room you would live in has a bed (for 2) which can be transformed into some kind of couch, nice wooden 50 year-old table and a big book case.
Free wifi and no TV :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

So... travelling and hosting, we guess. Shure.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Actually we started hosting without an account on CS. Seven British guys were placed into a two-room apartement here in Moscow, so we couldn't refuse to help. Two of them were living at ours for two months in whole count. And they were curious why we still haven't got CS account.
So we made it :)
Up to the moment we travelled using CS only once. But that's just the beginning of course.

Interests

We're still in a great process of searching ourselves.
Vera is in love with the books! She could live without bread and water for a week - if she was allowed to keep a reprint book of Dostoyevsky with her. She's studying for publishing editor and working as producer and coordinator of voluteer activities.
Yuri's passion is photography. But he didn't still manage to get education in this sphere and he's not shure if he's going to. He's working as a technical director at video art museum and sometimes has different little jobs at cinema stage.
We love to walk and sit in pubs, happy go to the museum and bookstores, in the summer we go to our dacha, which is 140 km from the Moscow. Concerts and dance-parties - it's not about us)

• books
• architecture
• photography
• education
• movies
• teaching
• sign language
• cinema
• bicycle touring
• kids
• bicycle
• cinematography
• travel with kids
• american sign language
• czech

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: russian movies, Coen brothers, Brazil, Being John Malkovich, Koyaanisqatsi, Six Feet Under, New York Synecdoche, russian animation, Hayao Miyazaki

Music: Shoking blue, Red Sparowes, Terry Riley, Pink Floyd, R.E.M., die Antwoord, Beirut, Wim Mertens, Steve Reich, Philipp Glass, Regina Spektor

Books: Nabokov, Kafka, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Camus, Sartre, Böll, Terry Pratchett, Milan Kundera, Leo Tolstoj, Nikolaj Leskov, Vladimir Sorokin, Gregory Normington, non-fiction, memoirs, bio

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Yuri was surprised that raisins made ​​from grapes at the age of 23, and Vera was surprised by that))

Teach, Learn, Share

Photography, driving, russian language, czech language, parenting. These are basic skills.
As a faculty we can also teach you how to paint walls, move furniture, repair water pipes and set electricity as the process of renovating our apartment seems to be endless :)
Our cat can teach you how to sleep in all kinds of poses and places - he's a real profi.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Russian Federation