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Overview

  • 22 references 20 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Russian; learning English
  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2014
  • Engineer, first of all Cycletraveller
  • Baltic State Technical University
  • From Kotlas, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russian Federation
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About Me

Hi, my name is Vasily. I lived before in Saint-Petersburg with my wife Julia, however currently we are living in the universe, you'll read about it bellow. We always together. We very cheerful and positive and we love the same people around us. I am engineer of repair helicopters and accembly spaceships. Julia is organizer of children's holidays and kindergarten teacher. We have many friends from different countries of world.
We are very often travel and we are cycletravellers with big expirience and a lot of stories from trips.
Once we have ridden by cycling from Saint-Petersburg to Amsterdam throught Scandinavian countries duaring 1 month.
Recently we made big cyclejourney around the Asia - 21 month and have ridden more 25000 km.
First part of our trip was from Irkutsk (Baikal lake, Russia) to Bali (Indonesia) . Duaring this time we crossed and enjoyed in Syberia and Buryatia (Russia), Mongolia, China (2 months and more 4000 km from Inner Mongolia to South-Chines sea), Vietnam, Laos,Thailand (2 months), Cambodia, Malaysia (4 months), Indonesia (2 months and more 3000 km from Sumatra to Bali).
Second part our way was incredible and crazy trip (sure by cycling) in India and Nepal during 6 months! We rode state by state, we stayed in fantastic beach in Goa, we starred in Bollywood movies, I can proceed infinitely!
And third part our journey was crossing central Asia, from Kyrgyzstan to Russia!
We livng in travel. Evdery days we meeting new interesting people and CS very helping us=) Often we spent nights in different temples with our tent and using hospitality locals. We never slept in hotel, for us better sleep close the road in tent, it is true! !

We with pleasure will show you a lot of interesting places of Saint-Peterburg and will host you, but after our trip!

We don't eat meat. We can eat everything besides all types of meat!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Couchsurfing is really opportunity to meet new people, penetrate into other cultures. Couchsurfing helps people discover their kindness, hospitality, trust to others. We very thankfull CS for a lot of new friends from many places of the world !

Interests

We like travels, nature, forest, mountains, rock-n-roll. And most importantly - we cycletravelers!!

In January 2015 we made a trip across India, visited many sities from North to South, it is great country)) Also we have trip to Holland, Belgium, Helsinki.
Our experiense of cycletravels:
- In August and September 2015 - cycletrip Russia (Saint-Peterburg)-Finland-Sweden-Danmark-Germany-Holland (Amsterdam);
- several of small journeys on different routes of Finland;
- In May 2016- cycletrip Russia (Saint-Peterburg)-Finland (Helsinki)-Estonia(Tallin)-Home!
- Currently we are on big cycletrip around the world

  • traveling
  • engineering
  • languages
  • mountains
  • cycle touring

Music, Movies, and Books

Rock, punk, ska, funk, trip-hop, reggae, alternative.
Hunter S. Thompson, Dostoevskiy, Tolstoy, Saltikov-Shedrin, Mayakovskiy, E. M. Remark,
"Shantaram" Gregory David Roberts-best)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lived in India 6 months=)

Teach, Learn, Share

We can teach many russian worlds and our language! We can met you with russian theatre, art, culture! We have big suitcase of stories about our trip and we with pleasure share our expierence! We can help you in many questions of life in travel and cycletravel.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Peace and friendship!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Cambodia, China, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Netherlands, Sweden, Tajikistan, Thailand, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Malaysia, Russian Federation

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