CURRENT MISSION

Save literature, save the word

ABOUT ME

Scientist, writer and traveler with varying degree of success in all of the above

PHILOSOPHY

I can smell and find a chocolate factory in any town I go.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

For now I can show best sites and give a tour around Kharkov and surrounding area for free or coffee^) I'm currently looking for a better living conditions, after which time I'd be welcome to host.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

couchsurfed at my friend's apartment, my second cousin lived at my place for two years, made tours around Kharkov for foreign scientists

Interests

1950-1980s counterculture - music and writers, transgression, bicycles, tennis, lengthy discussions of life, philosophy and apple cider

• writing
• literature
• chocolate
• coffee
• yoga
• music
• piano
• boxing
• tennis
• science
• tours

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: almost any post-punk self-deprivating songs, from the Smiths and Joy Division to Interpol, rockabilly for fun, undying Kaiser Chiefs fun. Books (at the moment): Naked Lunch and Fight Club, love Milton, Blake, Joyce. Movies: Black Books Tv series (that's what inside of my head looks like)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I saw two seas wash into each other on Rhodos, drowning channels of Venice in February showers, I saw old white mansion converted into leper house 20 kms from my home city of Kharkov, a severed head of an old catholic saint in Pyrenees, Martin Luther's silver spoon in Wartburg castle, a house where Margarita lived in Moskow, I saw a boy who used to walk 17 kms to school every day in russian village, an old bar with music box near Rovno, Spring by Sandro Botticelli in Florence, a train of gypsies in Carpathians and my 4-day old niece first squint at the sun. Haven't done a lot yet myself

Teach, Learn, Share

Love to learn histories of cities, and what people think about manipulation of powers. I can teach English (have diploma for that, don't I) - i.e. if you make mistakes, I will notify you and maybe even remember the rule, and on my part always appreciate when corrected, play piano, tennis, can teach some yoga.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My wonderful mind, post-soviet childhood memories and ice-cream

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ukraine, Wales