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How I Found Myself in South Africa

I lived in the big city of Moscow, worked for a big newspaper and was raising two kids. Everything is revealed between the lines of my newspaper stories – a miraculous chain of causes and effects.


In 2008 I landed to the Kalahari desert of South Africa, which was sitting as a nail in my head for a long-long time since I saw the movie Gods must be crazy.

 

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kalahari-race

 

I then moved to South Africa in 2009. I was lecturing at the UNISA (University of SA), had my own  personal photo exhibition and started running. Now I am traveling permanently, combining trail running with ultralight long distance hiking.

 

I’ve got a feeling that I am in a film under somebody else’s direction about how I manage what is happening to me all the time. When I realised I could never edit this movie I simply enjoy starring in it.

 

 
 
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From journalism and car racing in Russia to teaching at the University in South Africa, where she won Alliance de France and the British Consulate international photo contests, she switched paths: earned a silver medal at the 2011 World Masters Athletics USA, hiked the 2,081-mile Appalachian Trail, navigated the Amazon from Peru to Brazil, biked Route 66 from Chicago to LA, from London to Orkney, and from Canada to Key West, and launched an art project at Midcoast Maine. During lockdown drove to Olympic Valley Palisades Tahoe where became a ski and swim instructor, then… well, enough for now.

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