When you call complete strangers, there is a high probability that you will be shouted at. Sometimes this really happens. The list of people I called at work and who sent me is not very long, but I remember all these names well. I came to PublicPost as a middle-aged introvert. Talking on the phone with strangers was extremely difficult for me. I was shy, but gradually I learned. The hardest thing was to call Mikhail Boyarsky. This soft hoarseness, the intonations familiar from childhood...

I was one of the first to come to PublicPost, four months before the site opened. I was called to the project a few days after I graduated from the university - on June 1, 2011, having not really recovered from my exams and diploma, I signed my first contract for my first journalistic job. Four producers, two editors and one film editor—that’s the lineup we launched with.

I have not worked on PublicPost even a year. But a year in the media is a lot, much more than a year in accounting. At the end of last summer, children were just beginning to protect against "harmful information" and even threatened to protect against harmful words. And we did not joke very originally that it is known what place is, and the words denoting this place may not be soon. My first text on PublicPost - " Classics of a movie that can become obscene " - was also, in general, a joke.

I remember it was a cold Moscow autumn. I recently returned from another country, wrote a little for different publications, and moved from fee to fee. There were some fragmentary offers to work in editorial offices, but there was a feeling that everything was not right. That's when PublicPost fell on me. At that time, editor-in-chief Nikolai Klimenyuk noticed me somewhere in the vastness of young Russian media and suggested meeting me. Appointed in the khinkalnaya.