Vadim Kamkalov is the founder and owner of Protokoll Taproom, an international (and Russian) craft beer bar in Friedrichshain. We talked to the craft beer enthusiast about Russian craft beer, his journey to Berlin and why Vladimir Nabokov’s late father left him with an extraordinary feeling about being Russian in Berlin. Where did you grow up? I was born and raised in Daugavpils at the Western border of the USSR. Back then, it was one of the industrial and military…
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A born Leningrader, Vladislav Overchuk grew up in the typical outskirts of Saint-Petersburg, which he defines as ‘a pretty asocial neighbourhood’. Easily got accepted to the Saint-Petersburg State University for German studies and on…
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Russian-German Artem Hein is the founder and co-owner of Vater Bar in Berlin-Neukölln. Together with business partner Andreas Simon, he has recently taken over the Weserstraße bar Kuschlowski that they have transformed into a…
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This is Palina. Palina was born in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan and moved to Papenburg in Germany with her family when she was twelve years old. She studied dance in the Netherlands and traveled Europe for…
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So Ladies, this is Artem. Artem is Russian-German and came from Russia to Germany when he was only 9 years old. To Berlin he moved five years ago. “There is no one Berlin”, he…
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This is Alexander. Alexander grew up in Yekaterinburg and moved to Berlin when he was 16. That was in 1998. In 2008 he opened the probably best Russian bar in town: Kvartira 62. The…