CURRENT MISSION

Learning and sharing

ABOUT ME
On Couchsurfing last 12 years and in Italy last 10 years 🙂

I was born in beautiful Baku, raised in Russia (Moscow) and lived some period in Greece, Turkey and now in Italy.

I work in IT (Business Analysis), enjoy travelling and meeting new people from orher places . Last few years switched to remote work and sometimes manage to escape my small town in Italy and work from somewhere else when it is possible :)

In general, people say I am easy-going and open-minded person, and I tend to believe this :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am glad to help. We can meet and I can show you the city around, I can also try to host you if suitable for my work schedule (since I have started working it became more difficult, was hosting a lot more often when was a student).

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I like the CS and the way it provides the cultural exchange between people.

Interests

Travel, books, poetry, science, technology, mountain bikes and bike trails

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
- Le Petit Prince (1943, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery),
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970, by Richard Bach)
- The Master and Margarita (1966, by Mikhail Bulgakov)
- The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884, by Friedrich Engels)
- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973, by Ursula K. Le Guin)
- The Twelve Chairs (1928, Yevgeny Petrov, Ilya Ilf)
- The Gadfly (1897, by Ethel Lilian Voynich)
- Homo sapiens, surveys the history of humankind (2014, by Yuval Noah Harari)
- Seven Tongues of God (1964, by Timothy Leary)
- Seven Elements That Have Changed the World (2013, John Browne)
- Animal Farm (1945, George Orwell)
- 1984 (1949, George Orwell)
- Fahrenheit 451 (1953, Ray Bradbury)
- Faust (1829, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
- The Compromise (1981, Sergei Dovlatov)
- Crime and Punishment (1866, Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890, by Oscar Wilde)
- Fight Club (1996, by Chuck Palahniuk)

Movies:
- Cloudy Atlas (2012, Brothers Wachowski)
- Trainspotting (1996, Danny Boyle) - part 1 and 2
- Only lovers left alive (2013, Jim Jarmusch)
- Knocking on the heavens door (1997, Thomas Jahn)
- Mr Nobody (2009, Jaco Van Dormael)
- Into the wild (2007, Sean Penn)
- The bucket list (2007, Rob Reiner)
- Orlando (1992, Sally Potter)
- Eternal sunshine of Beautiful Mind (2004, Michel Gondry)
- Invention of lie (2009, Ricky Gervais, Matthew Robinson)
- Idiocracy (2006, Mike Judge)
- Arrival (2016, Denis Villeneuve)
- Meet Joe Black (1998, Martin Brest)
- Inception (2010, Christopher Nolan)
- Mr and Mrs Adelman (2017, Nicolas Bedos)
- Under the Tuscan Sun (2003, Audrey Wells)
- From Afrika (1985, Sydney Pollack)
- The age of Adeline (2015, Lee Toland Krieger)
- Revolver (2005, Guy Ritchie)
- Perfect sense (2011, David Mackenzie)
- Scent of a Woman (1992, Martin Brest)
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008, David Fincher)
- The Lobster (2015, Yorgos Lanthimos)
- 13th floor (1999, Josef Rusnak)
- Blow (2001, Ted Demme)
- Kaybedenler Kulübü / Losers' club (2011, Tolga Örnek)
- The Prestige (2006, Christopher Nolan)
- V for vendetta (2005, James McTeigue)
- The green book (2018, Peter Farrelly)
- Bridges of the Madison county (1995, Clint Eastwood)
- Blue is the warmest color (2013, Abdellatif Kechiche)
- Marriage story (2019, Noah Baumbach)
- Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014, Peter Chelsom)
- Interstellar (2014, Christopher Nolan)
- Mad Max Fury Road (2015, George Miller)
- Vanilla sky (2001, Cameron Crowe)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Paragliding and sea-canoe traveling in Black Sea (Georgian coast), 2012.

Was singing at the chorus of Università Per Stranieri di Perugia (Italy) at the Christmas concert held at the university and at the city church 🙂, 2022.

Teach, Learn, Share

Some languages I speak

What I Can Share with Hosts

I will definitely pay back the hospitality when you have a chance to visit me in Italy

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Azerbaijan, Greece, Italy, Russian Federation, Turkey, Ukraine