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About
I grew up in Yuryev-Polsky, a small town three hours from Moscow. Despite the name, it has nothing to do with Poland — it comes from an old Slavic word for open farmland, and it was founded by the same prince who founded Moscow, five years earlier.
At 5 I memorized every country’s flag and capital and decided to share this with the men playing dominoes outside — they fairly told me to get lost. I hadn’t yet learned to read a room.
At 13 I was obsessed with video games and decided I’d become a game designer. I taught myself Photoshop and After Effects from Andrew Kramer’s tutorials — there was barely any material in Russian, so I learned the software in English instead. I never made a game, but I came out with motion design skills and working English, both years before either became useful for work.
At 17 I had my plot twist. My paperwork was already filed at a top nuclear engineering university — I was set on becoming a serious engineer. On the last day of admissions I woke up certain I wanted something else, drove over myself, pulled the documents, and re-filed them for a design program instead.
Where I am now
The plan worked out: a design degree, then a master’s in industrial design from the same school, and I started building a career. My first real job was at Russia’s national broadcaster, where I ran social media for one of its radio stations and directed its YouTube livestreams. But neither industrial design, nor social media, nor directing excited me the way interface design did, so on the side I taught myself UX/UI and kept sharpening it on internal projects, until that became more important to me than social media itself.
In 2022 I made the final call and moved into interfaces full-time, joining Gazprombank, one of Russia’s largest banks. Starting with an internal admin tool and credit cards, four years later I was running search across the whole bank and the dashboard of its digital banking app, reaching more than 5M monthly users. I’d finally learned to read a room and an audience.
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