CURRENT MISSION

discover the world and find the way to make space around me a bit more positive

ABOUT ME

I was born and grew up in St.Petersburg, Russia, but now I live in Helsinki. Reading books, studying Finnish, walking around with my camera, writing travel stories. I am travel journalist so most of my time I spend for travel and meeting incredible people. I love it and don't want to stop. I write articles but I feel it is not enough. I am looking for something to do on my way to make things a little bit better. I like people and I like to learn from them how to see world and live differently and I like to share life experiences with them. I dream about writing a nice travel book that will push someone to see more. I find societies like CS as a great opportunity for everybody to meet great people and make their world bigger.

PHILOSOPHY

live now and do things.
all that we are is result of our what we have thought (Budha).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

well, I am new in CS but I was hosting some of my friends I made during my travels last 9 years:) also I had great experience in Italy in 2000 when many people around the country was hosting me and my friend. Since then I have one nice friend Emil from Canada who lived that time in Rome.

Interests

life,sun, wind, human nature, adventures, travels, discovering new things, blueberry and pickled cucumbers, meeting new people, journalism, photography, reading books, documentary movies as BBC Nature, Hunter Thompson, Mongolia, Tibet, nomads and endangered cultures, nature, trekking, yoga, getting lost in new places, mountains, deserts, felt making

• writing
• books
• singing
• photography
• documentaries
• yoga
• walking
• boating
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• hunting
• skydiving
• swimming
• journalism
• hitchhiking
• mountains

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I remember old poor cuban man whose shoes were made from dozens of pieces and who spent last coin to get me a piece of fried ban when I stuck in small town with hitchhiking.
I remember swimming with whale shark in Mozambik and watching couple of wild orangutans in Borneo.
I remember how dunes sing in Mongolia and taste of 70 millions years old dinosaur's bone sticked to my tongue.
I remember skydiving in Cuba and fighting with scared people under flipped boat on rafting trip in Zambezi river.

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