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Harmony 3, Tilal Al Ghaf: a tenanted single-row 4BR villa with a study and driver’s room. Current rent is AED 420,000 per year. A private investor opportunity.
Four years ago they let us out of Dubai Airport: Ira, three children with matching backpacks, and me — still a designer. Only now I've realised the escalator never stopped: all this time it has been carrying us through homes, careers, bills, cars and an entire sea towards a new version of the family
Bekki came to us as a reward for Alexander Jr's jiu-jitsu victory, but quickly became something bigger: a friend to all three children, a guide through our move, and our little shepherd who now walks with me to Project 80 every morning
I am starting work on the marketing strategy and full operational launch of the INKO-ENERGY brand in the UAE
I’m deep into the promo website for Alistera — a new class A coworking and office space in Downtown Dubai, just steps from Burj Khalifa. A project of this level demands matching packaging, so in parallel with the web I’m building out the full brand identity
I created a test Instagram carousel for self.space based on a Khaleej Times article: short quotes, a calm premium visual style, two videos, and a clear story about a self-portrait studio without a photographer
I launched Project 80: a path from 97.5 to 80 kg without magic or heroics. Every day I send ChatGPT my weight, walks, sleep, and photos of what I eat, and it helps me see the system rather than individual slip-ups.
For 1,360 days an old Arab villa in Umm Suqeim raised our children, let rain into the bedroom, broke its air conditioners and sent me onto the roof to retrieve the electricity. In the end it summoned an army of cockroaches and kept half our deposit. We moved to the Palm — grateful, but exhausted.
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Four years ago they let us out of Dubai Airport: Ira, three children with matching backpacks, and me — still a designer. Only now I've realised the escalator never stopped: all this time it has been carrying us through homes, careers, bills, cars and an entire sea towards a new version of the family
Bekki came to us as a reward for Alexander Jr's jiu-jitsu victory, but quickly became something bigger: a friend to all three children, a guide through our move, and our little shepherd who now walks with me to Project 80 every morning
For 1,360 days an old Arab villa in Umm Suqeim raised our children, let rain into the bedroom, broke its air conditioners and sent me onto the roof to retrieve the electricity. In the end it summoned an army of cockroaches and kept half our deposit. We moved to the Palm — grateful, but exhausted.
For 1,360 days an old Arab villa in Umm Suqeim raised our children, let rain into the bedroom, broke its air conditioners and sent me onto the roof to retrieve the electricity. In the end it summoned an army of cockroaches and kept half our deposit. We moved to the Palm — grateful, but exhausted.
Not long ago Daria Alexandrovna slept in a pram among the Marina skyscrapers, travelled in my arms and learned the pool under her brothers’ watch. By 8 July, the baby had given way to a young lady with a book, a bow and opinions of her 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.
Over the past few months, I've been participating in design sprints with Fundmates, a US startup that raises funds for YouTube creators
I designed an MVP service for YouTube creators that allows them to sell the future income of a specific video for a fixed amount - quickly, transparently and without credits
I was on the creative team for The Driven Podcast, a YouTube series about entrepreneurs, creators, and professionals who are pushing the boundaries of their industries. My task was to develop the visual identity and digital presence of the podcast
For 1,360 days an old Arab villa in Umm Suqeim raised our children, let rain into the bedroom, broke its air conditioners and sent me onto the roof to retrieve the electricity. In the end it summoned an army of cockroaches and kept half our deposit. We moved to the Palm — grateful, but exhausted.
Today I tried Brazilian jiu-jitsu for the first time at Roger Gracie Academy in Al Barsha. My kids have trained for three years, and I only now stepped onto the mat myself. The first session was tough. This weekend we are going with the kids to a competition in Fujairah
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!
Today I tried Brazilian jiu-jitsu for the first time at Roger Gracie Academy in Al Barsha. My kids have trained for three years, and I only now stepped onto the mat myself. The first session was tough. This weekend we are going with the kids to a competition in Fujairah
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.
DAMAC marks 1,000+ sales in The Lifestyle Collection and rolls out fresh terms: 15% down payment, monthly instalments from 0.25%, 4% DLD fee waiver and apartments from AED 1.25M
For 1,360 days an old Arab villa in Umm Suqeim raised our children, let rain into the bedroom, broke its air conditioners and sent me onto the roof to retrieve the electricity. In the end it summoned an army of cockroaches and kept half our deposit. We moved to the Palm — grateful, but exhausted.
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Harmony 3, Tilal Al Ghaf: a tenanted single-row 4BR villa with a study and driver’s room. Current rent is AED 420,000 per year. A private investor opportunity.
A spacious five-bedroom villa with a
A spacious 5-bedroom villa with a private pool and garden in Harmony 3, Tilal Al Ghaf. 5,617 sq. ft., 6 bathrooms, staff rooms, parking for three cars. Available from September at AED 850,000 per year
Elysian Mansions, Tilal Al Ghaf: Muse residence No. 10 facing the lagoon is offered for AED 65M. Approximate readiness for move-in is about four months.
For 1,360 days an old Arab villa in Umm Suqeim raised our children, let rain into the bedroom, broke its air conditioners and sent me onto the roof to retrieve the electricity. In the end it summoned an army of cockroaches and kept half our deposit. We moved to the Palm — grateful, but exhausted.
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
Designed a stack of materials for LETOILE — the Beauty Weekend event held at Manar Mall. The brief: bright, festive, instantly eye-catching in feed. The result: an Instagram carousel mixing beauty props, 3D characters, and a lot of popcorn
The other day I completed the first draft of the “Cognitive Strategies” website for my project, which I am doing together with my partner Ilya
Everything is fine!
I made such a fast website for my cafe or coffee shop or cafeteria with the ability to order online
I ran 2.9B tokens through Codex, compared Claude Code, Cursor Composer 2.5, and Antigravity, and realized the best AI tool is not the smartest one. It is the one that keeps real projects moving every day.
When machine intelligence writes the code and the human is responsible for the logic and meaning — who's the developer? And what changes in the profession when the tool starts thinking alongside you?
When you're making cold calls to British or Indian clients and can't understand a word they're saying — that's a real problem. I solved it myself: built a Swift app with Apple Intelligence that transcribes speech in real time and suggests what to say next.
I walked beside the water through a city that knew the price of every square foot, but not what makes a person human. Memory kept changing, the body kept rebuilding itself, the machine was learning silence—and it was no longer clear which of us was merely the continuation of the other.
My day no longer splits into morning, noon, and evening. It splits into sessions. Codex, Claude, Cursor, and the kitchen-table oracle — four invisible hands I route my attention between. The next profession may not be developer or designer. It may be AI dispatcher
Man is not the crown of evolution, but a rare knot of condensation, a temporary substratum in which the Universe first gathered itself so deeply into pain, language, memory, love and inner experience
My 2025th in Framer: in the top 1% of world creators! That's 191 hours, 2908 posts, thousands of layouts and 17,600+ visitors to my best site. It was big, loud and very productive. A full analysis of my statistics is in the carousel! 🔥
Made the first version of a business card website for A&F Advertisement - an outdoor advertising agency in Dubai
The prototype was first assembled in Figma, but then rebuilt in Webflow
Bekki came to us as a reward for Alexander Jr's jiu-jitsu victory, but quickly became something bigger: a friend to all three children, a guide through our move, and our little shepherd who now walks with me to Project 80 every morning
Together!
On December 2nd, my family and I took a trip to the desert to visit the Hidden Cafe in Dubai. This day was like a little adventure: the road to the cafe passed through endless sand dunes that seemed to shine under the rays of the winter sun
“In the endless winter, the bracelets wrapped around the wrists...” Beyond the Barguzinsky tract, time froze in “zero transportation.” Confession of a watchman of an abandoned dacha, where reality disintegrates along the lines of Malevich, and only the warmth of freshly chopped firewood can save
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Nevsky (1933 – 2019) is an iconic figure for Buryatia. An energy engineer by profession and a pioneer in spirit, he dedicated his life to making the mountains and taiga closer and more understandable to everyone
Since July 2026, I have been working as a real estate consultant at Nevsky Realty. How a product designer came to Dubai real estate, why finding the right agency became a professional journey of its own, and what comes next on nevsky.ae.
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Nevsky (1933 – 2019) is an iconic figure for Buryatia. An energy engineer by profession and a pioneer in spirit, he dedicated his life to making the mountains and taiga closer and more understandable to everyone
“In the endless winter, the bracelets wrapped around the wrists...” Beyond the Barguzinsky tract, time froze in “zero transportation.” Confession of a watchman of an abandoned dacha, where reality disintegrates along the lines of Malevich, and only the warmth of freshly chopped firewood can save
For the great team at EpicWeb3, I built the entire website in Webflow. The design was created by another designer, while my role focused on implementing the layout and improving certain aspects of the UI
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