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Overview

  • 5 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Russian; learning Chinese, Spanish
  • 41, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • c++ programming, still thinking about startup :), travel,...
  • two university degrees in IT and Economics.
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

be happy and make the world better.

ABOUT ME

I like understand life by
work: programming and economic research.
travel: start from hitch-hiking, ~40 country, fast travel.
education: 2 university degree, self-education
activity: freediving, see contemporary art, fighting, yoga, kitesurfing, but last time I'm usually at home at the computer...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've been on several CS party in New York, Istanbul and Novosibirsk.
Several people visited my house and I was the guest several times.

Interests

business, robots, travelling, rainforest&jungle, hiking, kitesurfing, freediving, contemporary art, XX history, oil, politics,economics & stocks, cliffs, mars landscape

  • arts
  • contemporary art
  • education
  • yoga
  • partying
  • politics
  • traveling
  • hiking
  • camping
  • business
  • economics
  • teaching
  • history
  • software
  • statistics
  • hitchhiking
  • parks
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: IMDB top 250?, House M.D., The Shawshank Redemption, 12 Angry Men, Fight Club, Кин Дза Дза, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, mainstream and a bit of art house.
Books: dystopia (1984, Brave New World, We), political journalism, history and something useful.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My first hitch-hiking trip was 1,5month to Middle Asia and Europe tour in 19 years.
I've been in Tibet and Everest base camp by hitch-hiking.
I've done Kailash Kora in 1 day and a bit.
Fight to protect themselves from two robbers with the possibility of a gun in Brazil.
6,000 km of west national parks of the USA for 12 days by car.
I've been in Galapagos and Afghanistan.
Swam with whale sharks, small sharks, afar hammerhead shark, through the dolphins, with seals, turtles, flocks of sardines.
Met a bear on Kamchatka.
Afraid of insects in the jungle of Malaysia
Built a snow shelter for sleeping.
Tried to catch alligator in Venezuelan Llanos at night with light.
Lost in a fog on top of Roraima, but just a bit as everything else ...

Teach, Learn, Share

how to fight with a knives, may be just ideas that I believe in.
how to develop software or something about economics or kitesurfing or something else.
Russian language?
Statistics?
I love to compare live in our countries

Famous things of my city: https://sib.fm/articles/2015/12/25/je-suis-novosibirsk

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uzbekistan, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation

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