Hi! My name's Mariia. I live in Moscow now. I'm PHd of geological sciences. I work at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
I try to travel and not stay in one place due to study and work, so I go hitchhiking and do other strange things. I am ready to exchange everything that I have for the charm of hitchhiking at night

I will be really interested to hear stories about your life and about you, about your travels, about your studies / work, about your homeland, about your adventures, about your problems, about your happy moments, about your first love, and so on. All of this can be useful for me, it makes the theoretical life experience bigger.

https://www.instagram.com/smth_in_ur_eyes

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

New people, new trips, impressions, experiences, and of course the search for the meaning of life.
When you travel and meet new people you live more lives, your life becomes more intense and longer, it seems. It's new emotions, a new stream of thoughts, this self-improvement, it's all

Interests

• books
• board games
• traveling
• music
• geology
• history
• philosophy
• science
• sociology
• people
• postcards
• games
• punk
• hichhiking
• squatting

Music, Movies, and Books

about the sublime

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was in Chukotka, where you can not drive.
I flew in a hot air balloon.
I have defended my dissertation.

Teach, Learn, Share

I often hear that "I live here and I don't know what you know." I approach my journey very carefully and therefore I am well informed.
I can explain the theory of motion of lithospheric plates & other geological things (I was theacher in university)

I know the fears of bears.

What I Can Share with Hosts

knowledge, experience, travel stories, sometimes books

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Greece, India, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Monaco, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation