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November 12, 2019
"Why IT?", "How did it happen?" are the TOP questions I am asked for. I thought a lot. Each time I tell my story and understand that there is a mismatch.
I studied at the Slavic Humanitarian-Aesthetic School-Gymnasium In Shymkent and we we had 12 hours of Russian per week. We read "The Word about Igor's Regiment" in Old Slavonic. At the same time, I always liked physics and mathematics, and these subjects were easy to me. I even thought to enter to the physics faculty in St. Petersburg or Tomsk after ninth grade. But finally entered the economic at Kazakh National University by Al-Farabi (KazNU Al-Farabi). This was not a superconscious decision. It just so happened. For example, I did not know that I have an opportunity to study abroad. I did not consider KIMEP because I had German as the main foreign language at school. What can I say - even Almaty was a distant and unknown city for me at that moment. I didn't know at all what universities and opportunities exist.
But this whole story began much earlier - with the first book in the genre of fantastic fiction. In principle, we had a lot of books at home, we bought them in piles when we stopped in Moscow on the way to relatives in Ukraine. But this book became special - it was a collection of stories by Clifford Simak.
Fiction in my understanding is a story about "what can be in the future?". It seems to me, and the roots of my story in that we want to look to the future, and do something for it.
