First Day Back at School After Summer
The kids are back at school, and summer is officially over. We’re back to early mornings, lunchboxes, school runs, homework, activities — and the everyday logistics of family life with three kids in Dubai
Irina is my beloved wife and the person holding the entire structure of our family together. Her legal career with a Dubai company moved us from Moscow to the UAE and opened a completely new chapter of our lives. She gave us our wonderful children, builds her career, solves the seemingly impossible, and maintains order where, without her, organised chaos would have taken over long ago. Without Irina, there would be no Dubai chapter — and none of us would be who we are today
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16 August 2008: An Audit of White-Hot Time and the Formula 2 → 5
The calendar presented its bill: 6,574 days under a blinding sun and 43.2% of my life on this side of our wedding day. Through hot concrete and millions of erased minutes, one equation remained: 2 → 5
Irina is a Master!
For almost two years, several evenings a week, Ira traded home life for the lecture rooms of Middlesex University Dubai. Now that long route has ended with a Master of Laws diploma — and another point on our map of Dubai
Between zoom and siren: how Dubai is getting used to life under the gun
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
We went to Birch to see Nastya for her birthday
This was the best restaurant I’ve been to in Dubai so far
From Dubai with a British seal of approval: a new stage in your legal career!
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
Interface of my life
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
We went to the classical…
We were able to go to the classical one, first misled Konstantin, promised him that there would be a musical there and he barely agreed, but there was a classical one
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