Natasha Padabed was born in Smolensk, Russia although her family moved to Mogilev in Belarus which was where she grew up. It was in Minsk that she started to organize concerts for bands, many…
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Introducing Helena Goldt (or, as she refers to herself, the ‘Kazakh steppe lady with European roots’) a classical singer who was indeed born with a musical gift. Her parents had met and fell in love in…
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Dariya Susak was born in Moscow where she departed from seven years ago. “I didn’t really get a chance to work in Moscow. I was nineteen years old and those times were on fire!”…
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Introducing Katerina Belkina. The Berlin-based Russian grew up in Samara. With a population of about one million people, Samara is still considered somewhat provincial by Russian standards. By the time Katerina had reached her…
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Introducing Ira Thiessen. Ira is an incredibly talented photographer who recently graduated from the renowned Berlin photography school, Ostkreuzschule. Thiessen’s work is making appearances across many of the major newspapers at the moment, from…
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This is Elen – Elen, rather than the more typical Elena – a somewhat unusual female name in Russian. “It was actually a mistake on my mother’s behalf that happened while she was young…
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Meet identical twins Maria and Natalia. The pair were born in Leningrad yet departed from the city the year it regained its original name, St. Petersburg. Their father, a film producer and their mother,…
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Introducing Sasha. Sasha arrived in Berlin approximately three years ago, up until which she had lived her entire her life in the Ukrainian city of Odessa. “One day I was sitting on the couch…
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This is Slava. Slava is a Street & Tape Artist from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine who came to live in Germany with his family when he was 18 years old. They moved to Lübeck in Northern…
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Meet the lovely Ekaterina. I first came across the very talented illustrator when COUCH Magazine published a beauty editorial with her illustrations. Being already familiar with her work from Elle and other publications, I…