RUSSIAN JOURNALIST FROM SOUTH AFRICA
Journalism
at the major media in Moscow
A loaded journalist for the major Russian newspapers and magazines, a columnist, a featured, and a travel writer; made a program for Drive-TV. The greatest accomplishment was a newspaper series "The Route" about 200'000 km road trip around Moscow. I've got a journalist awards for that. Series was published as books with a general circulation of 15'000.
Teaching @ University
Taught Russian in South Africa
Since 2009 I taught Russian language and literature at the World Languages Department of University of South Africa (UNISA). At the mean time my industrial rusty-dusty photos won an international contest with following up personal photo exhibition "Iron Africa". During the World Cup 2010 I wrote series "Africa daily" for Russian media.
Trail & Road Running
On podiums of many races.
2011 was the beginning of my short but explosive running career, when, after watching the whole South Africa running, I came to the stadium and ask a top coach to show me how to run, then to train me for speed running. After a couple of months I won 10 km in Gauteng Province, ran at South African Champs, then at World Masters Athletic in USA, where got a silver medal.
Adventure Travels
Long distance hiking and cycling.
One day I wanted to try something ultra- and googled "long distance well-marked trail". The Appalachian Trail came first. I bought a ticket to US again, took a sabbatical, and ‘ve gone for 2 000 miles walk. Then cycled US Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica. Then cycled through the whole England and Scotland with Orkney Islands. Then... I'm still hiking and cycling somewhere.
