ABOUT US

Hi! We are a couple of travel-fans from St.Petersburg, Russia, living in Berlin from 2017. Together for the last 4 years, we have visited 21 countries including 2 road-trips: across Iceland and the US west coast, bike trips across Finland, and we keep on exploring.
We are keen on beautiful places, extraordinary buildings, architectural wonders, and contemporary arts.
Looking for the inspiration, knowledge, and impressions that encourage us to positive changes.

YANA
I studied Fashion at St.Petersburg Academy of Arts and Design (2003-2010) and since then have been doing lots of things around visual design. For the last 5 years, I'm mostly a web-designer. As side-projects, I am working on illustrations for my friend's children book and provide individual styling consultancy.

EUGENE
I studied maths and computer science in St. Petersburg State University and work as a software engineer. In my spare time, I fancy outdoor activities like cycling, hiking, playing sport games.

CURRENT MISSION
Mindful living

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

For us, traveling is not only about exploring the places, but also about talking to people who make these beautiful places unique with their views, habits, and stories.
We are looking to meet new friends here, to listen to your stories and share ours, continue to be inspired and get acquainted with the world.

Interests

Exploring nature, old cities and ultra-modern quarters, local cuisine, valuable art events, rock-concerts.

• arts
• architecture
• design
• sketching
• wine
• coffee
• chess
• rock music
• cycling
• snowboarding
• soccer
• roadtrips
• alpine skiing

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Green Book, Birdman, Paterson (and more by Jarmusch), Intouchables

TV-Shows: The Night Manager, How I met your mother, House M.D, Game of Thrones, Young Sheldon.

Music: RHCP, Muse, Depeche Mode, Linkin Park, Massive Attack, Parov Stelar, Patrick Wolf

Books: Sapiens (Harari), Goldfinch (Tartt), 1913: The Year Before the Storm (Illies), non-fiction (History of Arts, History, self-help)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Parachute jumping. Twice (Yana).
Crossed Iceland from West to East in one day ( Eugene)

What I Can Share with Hosts

We will be happy to share with you some tips that helped us on our trips and recommend some superior places around the world that we've lived or been to. Particularly in St.Petersburg and Berlin, of course, but also in Helsinki, Lisbon, Porto, and some others.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Russian Federation