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MY BOOKS:
I also wrote, illustrated and designed a book on the history of Gagarin's pioneering mission:
Pioneering Vostok missions in color! My contribution to Partners in Space focused on the Russian side of the International Space Station project:
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I am a journalist and illustrator specialized in the history of space exploration. Native of Moscow, then Soviet Union, I attended School of Journalism at Moscow State University. Upon moving to the United States in 1993, I earned bachelor's degree from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications. Currently, I am working as a reporter for Sen.com and a contributing writer to the Air & Space Smithsonian and the Aerospace America magazines, in addition to publishing RussianSpaceWeb.com -- a unique collection of news, historical information, photography and interactive graphics on space exploration. In 2013, I completed writing and illustrating a large-format book on the history of Russian plans for space exploration published by Apogee Prime. Back in Moscow, I worked as a contributing editor for the Astronomy and Cosmonautics series of Moscow Polytech Society and later as an aviation and space reporter for Nezavisimaya Gazeta, one of the first independent dailies in Russia. I visited all leading Russian space centers including Baikonur Cosmodrome and interviewed many legendary personalities in the Russian space program, among them Boris Chertok, Yuri Semenov and Alexei Leonov. My articles, artwork, animations and photography appeared in practically every major space publication around the world and in many general news media outlets including:
I also provided commentary and was quoted by numerous publications and leading mass media organizations, including:
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES: I work to inform general public, as well as policy makers and aerospace industry professionals on developments and trends in the Russian space program and about other space-related issues:
SELECTED RADIO AND TV APPEARANCES: I regularly appear as a guest on various TV and radio programs around the world, including Russia Today, the Voice of Russia, CNN Next, CNN International's Foreign Correspondents, BBC, German Public Radio, Voice of America, France 25, and on various other radio and TV shows.
SELECTED INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS: Space Station Mir, N1 Moon rocket, Soyuz spacecraft, Venera-75 spacecraft |
FROM MY PERSONAL ALBUM
In the morning fog at Gagarin's pad of Baikonur Cosmodrome, witnessing the launch of the first expedition to the International Space Station, October 2000.
Inside the Assembly and Testing Building, MIK, at Site 31 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, during the preparations for the launch of the European Cluster spacecraft, July 2000.
On the assembly floor at the Baikonur Cosmodrome before the launch of the first space tourist to the International Space Station in April 2001.
With Yuri Grigoriev, Deputy Designer General of RKK Energia inside the company's Control and Testing Station, KIS, in Korolev, Russia.
At the Launch Complex 39A of the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, with the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the launch pad.
Next to the flown and now lost Buran orbiter (top) and its full-scale prototype at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
In the clean room of RKK Energia processing building at Site 254, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
Working in the field. See what can be achieved with a simple camera. Moscow Aviation Institute
Searching for a mysterious Soviet lunar lander at the demo room of the Moscow Aviation Institute.
At the helm of the Almaz (OPS-4) military space station at the NPO Mash development center in Reutov, Russia.
A unique "selfie" inside of a gigantic thermal testing chamber of the NIIKhIMMash research facility near Sergiev Posad, in the company of Vladimir Galyaev, a leading specialist. The fuselage of the Buran orbiter, Mir space station and other spacecraft went through rigorous trials here. Giant mirrors inside the facility are used to imitate solar radiation.
Near the monument to the legendary Soviet rocket designer Mikhail Yangel on the grounds of KB Yuzhnoe development center. Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.
First journalist on the closed Gorodomlya Island in the Seliger Lake, which was a home of the German rocket team in the USSR in 1946-1953.
Discussing the Soyuz spacecraft on CNN's NEXT.
Discussing NASA return to the Moon on CNN's Foreign Correspondents.
"Piloting" a full-scale simulator of the Kliper winged reusable orbiter at RKK Energia's Control and Test Station, KIS, in Korolev, Russia.
Navigating the Kourou River through the rain forest of French Guiana near the European space launch site in the equatorial South America.
Next to the very descent module of the Vostok spacecraft which carried Yuri Gagarin into space and back to Earth during the historic first human mission into space on April 12, 1961. |
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