The Nevsky Family in Dubai — not a polished relocation story, but a record of how an unfamiliar city gradually becomes home. Children grow, schools and houses change, and new routines, routes, and memories take shape. This is a collection of ordinary days, family journeys, and small moments that slowly become a life of their own
Her first proper class, her first teacher and her first whole-class photograph. After a wonderful time at The Forest Oasis Nursery, Daria begins a new chapter — now at Raffles World Academy alongside her brothers.
Ten minutes between “take shelter now” and “all clear.” These screenshots aren’t stills from a thriller — this is daily life in Dubai, 2026. While the skies decide the fate of regions, we balance work calls and emergency alerts from MOI. Hard? Yes. But people adapt to everything
This was the best restaurant I've been to in Dubai so far
This time the children themselves and their nanny went to International Day at Raffles World Academy school and I arrived only at the end for a couple of hours and the first quest was to find the children, since they were scattered around the entire perimeter
We celebrated Ira’s graduation from the Law programme at Middlesex University Dubai — two and a half long years, but she did it and finally earned her dream: a British diploma. A great day, the whole family together. An incredible ceremony at Royal Atlantis on the Palm
As soon as you turn away, you come into the garden, and there are children making a fire with all their might, burning wood and paper and cardboard and declaring that they are very happy and they are children and therefore they simply have to light a fire!
Dasha is already asleep, Sanya is as happy as if it were his idea from the very beginning, Kostya holds a strategic position deep in the frame, and we parents have officially lost control of our own bed.
Children are my best UX test, emigration is the main redesign, family is an honest product team. I live between the bay and the desert, children's school and a laptop with Figma. I write about life and design: honestly, with failures and discoveries, without gloss and instructions
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