Natalia is a Russian-born photographer who followed her love to Berlin. After five years in the German capital, she’s become well adapted to her new city. We talked to Natalia about her hometown Sochi, her favorite moments in Berlin, and her career choices after she relocated from Russia to Germany. Where were you born and where did you grow up? I was born in the southern area of Russia in the subtropical region of Sochi. I lived there for 17 years…
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Andre Zayarni is co-founder of MoBerries.com – an upcoming startup in Berlin. The CTO talks to berlinograd.com about his journey to Germany, his first career steps and why he prefers working in the Berlin’s…
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Helena Melikov is more than a Berlinograder, as a “Berlinogirl” she is also part of our Berlinograd team. We talked to the talented graphic designer about her childhood, about why Russian New Year’s Eve…
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Alexander Bondar is a photographer who co-created Zoopark Collective with photographer and publisher Tatyana Palyga. We met Alexander in Kreuzberg. He told us about his journey from Russia to Germany, why he didn’t like…
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Thorsten Gutmann is editor-in-chief of Ostexperte.de and co-founder of RUSummit, a conference series thematizing digital economy in Russia. We talked to the German-born Muscovite about the digital sphere in Russia, about the RUSummit 2018…
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Tatyana Palyga lived in many places before finally moving to Berlin. She recently opened Zoopark Studio with her business partner Alexander Bondar in Berlin-Neukölln. Reason enough for us to sit down with her and…
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Ani Menua is a writer and philosopher who finally found her way to Berlin after a journey that began in Yerevan, took her to Moscow and then Wiesbaden before she finally landed in the…
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Elena Margulis is an entrepreneur and the founder of fEast – a series of events in Berlin which aim to show the diversity of Eastern European culture. We met the Ukrainian in Prenzlauer Berg…
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Carina Spreitzer grew up in the Austrian alps and speaks Russian fluently. We talked to the passionate Slavophile about her work for a Russian-German NGO, why you should try Pelmeni cooking at Red Square Festival…
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Sergey Medvedev is the managing director of Dekabristen e.V., a German-Russian NGO that aims to build exchange programs for young professionals and social innovators from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and regions in the South Caucasus. While interviewing Sergey we learned much about his journey from Russia…
