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I've spent most of my life in Kyiv, Ukraine. I speak Russian, Ukrainian, English, and a bit German. I like to spend my time with Anna, Sophia, and Lev. Anna never updates her web page, but she finished her PhD at the University of Utah. After being a postdoctoral fellow for several years, she is now a medical resident at the University of California Irvine. Our kids Sophia and Lev often work as a team (we're lucky) and in general know how to enjoy life.

I moved to Utah from Kiev, Ukraine, where I was a graduate student at the Institute for Applied System Analysis at the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytehnic Institute" (Complete education history). In Ukraine I worked with Leonid Ryzhyk. We were full of naive but interesting ideas. We spent several years working on the E1 distributed operating system project.

Some photos of me, my friends and other day-to-day fun are here.

Anna and I love to travel more than we can.

Skiing is likely the reason to live in Utah. Unfortunately, we don't ski much lately. But we take Sophia and Lev to Alta almost every weekend. They both are making progress.

The University of Utah's Taekwondo club used to be a surprisingly rare example of a devoted teaching (my wife and I had to quit shortly after our daughter was born).

We put Sopia in a skating class, so I learnt how to skate a little bit too.

My current focus is the music of John Zorn and everyone who plays with him. Before that it was Esbjorn Svensson and Avishai Cohen. I've spent many year listening to the mainstream jazz music: Davis, Evans, Jarrett, Coltrane.

Anna and I used to play a lot. We don't have time any more.

You can start playing tennis by watching these videos. You can find more about strings from the stringforum.net. Luxilon Big Banger and Tecnifibre X-One Biphase is a reasonable combination to try.

Updated: August, 2016