Andrei Kirilenko

I grew up in a big city of St Petersburg, Russia. Some people in America have no idea about Russia and its cities but St Petesburg is a beautiful huge city with a population of 5000000 people. My family was pretty poor – my Mom was a physical trainer teacher and my father was a soccer coach in a local factory team. If you tell this to any Russian person he will know that my parents were underpaid and we have to struggle a lot. To start with we lived in a small apartment that was a long corridor with...   More about Andrei...

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