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boyhood ~ teenage
Mytishchi 1970s-80s
Mytishchi the suburb, Sharapovka neighbourhood...
My first ever nursery & kindergarten's building (Station street 5/3) is still alive and kicking. It somehow houses a local prosecutors' venue.
Golden Key kindergarten next door (where I also used to attend) has a newer building as its wooden structure hadn't stood ground throughout the late 80s.
School #14 lurks amid its bleak proletarian localities though it was its earlier building where I eventually graduated (1982 to 1984) and which thereupon was demolished in cold blood, to be unjustly redeveloped in favour of school #16 extra facilities.
But before #14 I had to attend junior secondary school #1, where Mrs. Angelina persuaded me to take up English as my calling of life. Mind you, its edifice is also standing tall, but instead of a prosecutors' fancy party you bump into a certain Bakinsky Boulevard Restaurant. Sakes alive!
Sharapovka, those were the days my friend...
Frontier Troops
KGB - USSR
1985-87
Eastern Kazakhstan, Soviet-Chinese border – the most hostile military line of yore. Howsoever busy I used to get – be it as a horse-mounted night patrol, or a stomp-scanner of the no man's land plowed strip, or else as a guard tower sentinel, even as a radio communicator on duty – whatever military I had to work out (Kalashnikov or grenade thrower atilt), I kept my pocket English dictionary ever handy. And while refining the absurdish goose-step, the entire frontier picket manpower used to chant Modern Talking's "Cheri Cheri Lady". Guess who proved the ever loudest choir leader?
Moscow State Institute
for International Relations
1990-1995
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