From six
I grew up on television. Tamyr, the children’s channel in Ufa, took me at six — first to sing, then to act, then to ask the questions. By the end I was hosting weekly live shows in Russian and Bashkir and filing reports on whatever the republic was doing that week.
Live TV teaches you early that the broadcast won’t wait for you. Somewhere in those years I played the lead in a fairy tale film called Shulgantash. It made the TEFI-Region finals in two categories and then won a Bronze Orpheus at TEFI, Russia’s main television award.
Behind the camera
At some point being in front of the camera stopped being the interesting part. In 2024 I finished two documentaries. One was a feature for the Bashkortostan film studio, for Ufa’s 450th anniversary. I did the whole post-production remotely, in six months, while at university, and it premiered in a cinema. The other was twenty-six minutes about the photographer Rustem Mugalimov. It aired on television and won its category at the fifth International Student Awards in Ankara.
Inside the screen
At eighteen I moved to Ankara on a Türkiye Scholarships grant to study computer engineering. The degree is taught in Turkish, so within a year I had a C1 certificate in Turkish.
My graduation project is MuSayUm, an audio guide for museums. You walk up to an exhibit and it starts talking, with nothing to scan. Sound was the easy part. Distance was hard: Bluetooth readings jump around, and a guide that changes exhibits every two seconds is worse than no guide at all. At the Ankara University project fair MuSayUm took second place out of sixty-five projects.
In between
In Doha I was a volunteer on the marketing team of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, and I turned nineteen there. Before that there was a year at a Swedish music startup, where I ran the Turkish side of a campaign with Alan Walker and a Telegram chat of fifty thousand people. In 2026 I played my first DJ set; the podcast started a year earlier.
All of it turns out to be the same job. You take something noisy and make it worth looking at.