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EXPLORER - ARTIST - AUTHOR - SAILOR

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📌 From Sept. 2023 I have been sailing "Rebels" with my co-pirate Robert Dalinger --

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Timeline -

📌 February 2023 - I became a co-owner of a Vagabond 47 Ketch, born in 1989. I have never sailed before... Some might say "She's mad"... and they would be right. I am mad. Mad enough to go after dreams, which could crash against reefs, not enough skill and get swallowed by storms, but not to go after them, would be deadly to our spirits. This is a new chapter of my life -- Learning about sailing, boats, sea and wind...

📌 March 2024 - With my co-pirate Robert Dalinger sailed together almost 4000 nautical miles. Canaries-Spain, Morocco, Cape Verde (Attended yearly carnival) anchored in Mauritania and sailed along the coast of Western Sahara BACK to Canaries taking THE INFAMOUS EAST ROUTE, instead of West (Many regard this route as "impossible") I celebrated my 40th year in this world in the Atlantic ocean and on land on the same day - March 27th 2024.

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There are many “Black Pearls” in the world, but only 1 “REBELS”

She has been caught in 7 meter breaking waves, journeyed “impossible”»route against winds and strongest current, had autopilot and engine failures in the middle of Atlantic Ocean and still is thirsty for more adventures same as her crew... Yes all of us, are not exactly “young” in passport numbers, but we have something that no amount of grey hair and squeaky wood can take away...…

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2 pairs of hands

3 passports

4 flags

1 sail sold to a possible South American drug cartel...

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What’s Next? — sailing to my 100th nation and more!

I first grabbed sheet, (which I always pronounced as sh*t, followed by «lay it on the clit»… sailing is fun!) mooring, fender lines, cold winch handle, VHF mic 🎙️, the old wooden wheel at the helm in my hands and started to understand the difference between a jibe and a tack (although at first, I thought we were jiving..) in SEPTEMBER 2023.

In March 2023 was the first time I, stubborn 39 year-young, (turned 40 at sea in 2024) took a screw driver in my delicate artistic hands. Mom would be really proud of me right now )

Ps - if you ever see "Rebels" at sea, please know — The "E" letter on stern is crooked and chaotic on purpose.. just as I am at times, the ocean and life itself…

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MINI BIOGRAPHY — Endocannibalism ritual inside malaria red zone, staring into loaded rifle in Mali, working with Hollywood directors, having my hand kissed by a prince and shaken by president, diving into madness of sex, drugs and jailhouse rock, waltzing through world famous red carpets, touching ancient worlds, fighting to stay alive... Living deep in Mauritanian Sahara desert with nomads, with cowboys in South and Central America, inside infamous "Darien Gap" alone, surviving category 5 cyclone with locals in Fiji, dancing with mummies in Madagascar, living with tribes from South America, Papua New Guinea to Vanuatu and Africa. After traveling whole world solo for 20 years, mostly by public transport, I became co-owner of fantastic "Rebels" in 2023 and started sailing in North Atlantic Ocean with zero prior experience with my co-pirate.

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✔ Life on the road (1990's - 2020's) has taken me across 6 continents, through 99 nations. For 20 years traveling solo as a woman and full-time travel since 2015.

N. S. & C. Americas - 7+ years

Europe - 2 + years

Oceania - 1+ years

ASIA - 1+ years

Africa - 3+ years

✔ Africa - 2011, 2012, 2017, 2019-2024 - Living and traveling overland in Africa - on KTM bike over 12.000 km, car with a roof tent over 20.000 km, solo by public transport, planes, boats - thousands of km in East, West, South and North. And now sailing Africa...

Chapters of my life / book --

✔ In 2003 emigrated to USA from Russia alone as a 19 year-old with 1000$ in my pocket which I managed to save in one year from modeling jobs, with no help from family and without telling my mother about leaving. Trying to survive and thrive on a foreign soil solo. Getting my USA passport in 2012 (becoming a dual national) without getting married to a US citizen and traveling to my family in Russia in order to see them for the first time after almost a decade.

✔ Dance with the living and the dead (literally).

✔ Work with famous directors in Hollywood & the most celebrated photographers in Artistic Nude genre.

✔ Wear thousands of masks and souls, experience the deepest layers of existence & bring yourself back from the dead.

✔ Live deep in the Sahara desert with nomads in Morocco and Mauritania. (2012 & 2020)

✔ Venture solo without tours or guides into the most dangerous jungles such as The Darien Gap, deserts of our world, survive a category 5 Cyclone "Winston" on a small island in the Pacific, staying with locals and refusing to evacuate with all tourists and hotel owners to safety. (2016 - 2020's)

✔ Travel solo through African countries using public transport and without guides. (2011 - 2012 -- my twenties)

✔ Stare into the loaded rifle not too far from Timbuktu, film and participate in a demonstration against France and United Nations, get questioned for hours by military near the border with Dogon Country during war and closed road & interview rebels in war-torn Mali. (2020)

✔ Live with the most unique tribes and cultures of our world and participate in the ancient endocannibalism ritual inside a red malaria zone. (2011 - 2020's)

✔ Write poetry and short travel stories (2004 - 2020's)

✔ Live with cowboys, become one of a horse-men escorting bride to her groom in a traditional Guatemalan wedding. Race with cowboys through the biggest wetland in the world and pay respects to the most famous train robbers in history, by riding through the wilderness of Bolivia and reaching it's oldest town on a horseback in 4 days. (2018 - 2019)

✔ See and touch ancient cave paintings and petroglyphs on 4 continents dating from 3000 - 12.500 years old. Find hidden pyramids of Garrobo Grande (one of the oldest in all Central and South Americas), that barely anyone knows about in Nicaragua and hear a true story from locals about the biggest gold heist in history of this country that happened there.

✔ Eat the most exotic and unheard of foods and encounter countless wildlife of our world in their natural habitat.

✔ Wild Living on a true uninhabited Island for two weeks, with no electricity, or phone service in Philippines. (2017)

✔ Witnessing sacrifices for a mummy and reaching least visited country in Southeast Asia, it is also one of the least visited in the world (2016 - 2017)

✔ Trying all kinds of drugs and participating in shamanic rituals with indigenous people from South America to Papua New Guinea. (2016 - 2019)

✔ See and experience unfathomable pain, injustice and grief, as well as unimaginable happiness and ultimate peace.

✔ Get your hand kissed by a prince, shaken by a president and get offered his by a billionaire.

✔ Attend the most prestigious and glamorous events in the world.

✔ Journey from cradle to sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.

✔ Losing my father to cancer at 18, he was 67, almost losing my own life after hepatitis b vaccine in my twenties and now having my mother diagnosed with cancer in my thirties. (She passed away in May 2023)

✔ 2020-2021 world travel - Senegal, The Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Western Sahara, Morocco, USA, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Sicily, Russia. Being one of the few overland explorers left on the abandoned by most roads - Crossing Namibia, Zambia, Mozambique, Eswatini and South Africa by land - two crazy pirates, plus 1 KTM 950 “Adventure” Austrian motorcycle = over 10.000 km of freedom.

✔ 2022 - Thousands km overland across all nations of Southern Africa in a car with a "home" attached to the roof. First travelers to live with a non-touristic Himba tribe lost somewhere in the mountains of Namibia near Angolan border. Finding Apollo 11 cave - cradle of civilization with priceless prehistoric art. Solo journey by public transport into the depths of Southwestern Ethiopia and falling asleep to the sounds of Kalashnikov, not too far from South Sudan border. Traveling alone through all of Southern Tunisia by public transport, living with nomads in caves, being invited to local Berber wedding and making my solo journey to Libyan border in the desert temperature of +45C. Swimming alone with whale sharks in Djibouti.

✔ 2023 - Participating in Voodoo rituals and ceremonies with locals in Benin. Traveled through all Southern African nations. Became a co-owner of a sailboat "Rebels". Sang my last lullaby to my beautiful mom on 9th of May 2023. She lost her battle with cancer. She was 76. I became officially "orphaned" at the age of 39 and had an operation in Namibia, Africa same year.

✔ 2023 - 2024 - Started sailing in North Atlantic Ocean with my co-pirate Robert in September 2023. I had zero prior experience. We sailed together almost 4000 nautical miles. Canaries-Spain, Morocco, Cape Verde (Attended yearly carnival) anchored in Mauritania and sailed along the coast of Western Sahara back to Canaries. (Many regard this route as "impossible") I celebrated my 40th year in this world in the Atlantic ocean and on land on the same day - March 27th 2024. Traveled in Summer 2024 for 3 weeks, alone to a war zone in order to see relatives, whom I haven't seen 4-5 years and to pay respects to my roots. (Russia / Ukraine border -- Mariono, Rylsk and Kursk)

-- 40+ wild and free years in this world.

To be continued...

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