born in the ussr. spanish study. soviet army. teacher for latin language. radio free europe/radio liberty in munich. pr-study in munich. after 10 years in germany came back to ukraine. since 2000 providing international explorers' project EarthQuest. accomplished an extreme show program aimed at the promotion of a round-the-world expedition project as part of the EarthQuest exploration program. the program was initiated in 2001 with a series of trips to africa. On the basis of the materials from these trips, a television show equites team was filmed (21 programs /x 50 min./ had run on the "inter" channel between march 2003 and jan. 2004). film “salem express. unsteady breath”, shot by equites in egypt was awarded a “silver flipper” at the antibes juan-les-pins 30th world underwater images festival in france in 2003. since 2001, exploration expeditions to south africa, namibia, botswana, swaziland, zimbabwe, zambia, tanzania, kenya, egypt, malaysia, dominican republic, haiti, cuba, australia and tasmania have taken place as part of the EarthQuest program. since 2003 founded the publishing group KLYUCH.COM together with serhiy mykhalchuk and dmytro karatieiev (projects "meanings", "songs of malay winds", "the real" on klyuch.com). author of two books (together with d.karateev) "around the pale moutain", "spring of egypt", "pentagramma", "liebe dich aus" recently crossed the atlantic ocean ("columbus quest project") on a small yacht in 40 days without any food (including 10 days without water)