On Your Way. Letter
When I started my circumnavigation in 2004, before Karaganda I was attacked by an eagle. Shattered my windshield. A bad omen? I didn't have to guess and think too much, repaired the bike and set off further towards Europe. Two years later, when I returned, the incident happened again. Then I thought it was a good sign. Maybe it was some kind of greeting from above, from heaven? When a road winds in front of the eyes, bumping into the horizon, vanity disappears. Consciousness expands the space for thoughts and thin lines capture the expanse of endless variants of your own history. Time slows down, you have time to consciously choose the direction of your actions, perform them with maximum precision and easily achieve what you have planned.
It seems that you have entered the avatar's body and intuitively control it, subjecting every step you take to the rules you have written.
Your game, your rules, your decision to change or break them. You see yourself from the outside, from a bird's-eye view, look into the depths of your heart, sink to the bottom of the dormant volcano of your soul and, having pushed off, soar again to the light, spreading your wings wide. Your light, like the heart of the valiant Danko, illuminates the way and erases doubts. You rule this world, you rule your reality, and whatever happens, falling and getting up, destroying yourself and being reborn again in a moment, you gain true strength and power, which is impossible to imagine in vanilla clouds and imaginary comfort zone.
And there are no obstacles, only challenges to be stronger, braver in your dreams, and adrenaline ignites the thirst to live and get another dose of happiness around the next corner, on the next peak, reaching a new mark on the map.
5 continents and 175 countries, 1.000 000 kilometers for 25 years
Our native Krasnoyarsk Polytechnic Institute!
Student years are unforgettable. It is pleasant to realize that many famous personalities came out of our institute. First of all, Sergei Shoigu. He came to Polytechnic from Tuva. I came from Severo-Yeniseisk. For two years we crossed paths in the corridors of the institute. But the most interesting thing happened many years later. Sergey Kuzhegetovich became the President of "RGO" – Russian Geographical Society, and I became the President of "GOK" – Geographical Society of Kazakhstan. It is great that we are engaged in a common cause. "RGO" rattles around the world with its super projects in the field of study and popularization of geography and related sciences. And our "GOK" rattles in the field of traveling, motorcycle expeditions and tourism. And the goal is the same – Promotion and recognizability of our young Kazakhstan in the whole world.
Students of the Polytechnic Institute – 40 years later
By 2019, I arrived in my hometown of Krasnoyarsk to participate in the 2019 Winter Universiade. I was elected as a Universiade Ambassador and became a participant of the Torch Procession. Oleg Matytsin, the current Minister of Sports of Russia and at that time the FISU President, included me in the scenario where I was supposed to pass the Olympic Flame to Sergey Kuzhegetovich near the Technological Institute on Mira Street. But it turned out that he could not come to Krasnoyarsk for this event. Well, nothing. we'll catch up. By the way, this is my fourth torch procession. I'm proud that I was entrusted to do it in Krasnoyarsk. Went to Polytechnic, walked around Akademgorodok. Not much has changed. The teachers of my time are long gone. Retired. I also remember our rector B.N. Borisov. Of course, nostalgia takes its toll. I gave an interview to the Yenisei TV channel. They remember me. As I covered my motorcycle circumnavigation on their TV channel and on the Second Russian TV. I had a lot of meetings with my classmates. It was great. Many live in Moscow, in Peter. But I was sent to Kazakhstan. Now it is my second homeland.
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