• First year
  • Freshmen, my first year classmates;
  • Bad habits come first, I tried to start smoking a few times after that;
  • Torture, that I suffered, when I pissed my friends off with the communist ideology;
  • Execution, (the table on my chest says 'XXVII Baku Commissar', on the story of 26 Baku Commissars see Caucasus).
• Second year
  • 'I am rising this fine glass...', a birthday party during fall farm labor;
  • ...and everybody is listening to my toast,;
  • In a shower, no comments;
• Fourth year
  • In Pavlovsk, near St. Petersburg, I grew a mustache that time;
  • Odessa, Ukraine, 1 April 1990;
    
  • Kiev, Ukraine, near Kiev-Pechora Monastery;
• Fifth year, military training
  • Aiming at a potential enemy;
    
  • Our platoon;
• My roommates
  • Sergey Mikhalev, his wife Lena and Kira;
  • Yuri Shevchenko and his wife Julia;
  • Denis Michurin and Riad;
• Kirill (Kira) Volynsky, I grew a beard that time;
• Ladies of phystechs, three wives and a girlfriend, two Natashas and two Lenas;
• Bridge team of our college, with Sergey Dashkov, and two Natashas from Dolgoprudny;
• Lost Highway - nature morte (courtesy of Yuri Shebzukhov).
• Moscow subway, after my leaving-to-the-USA party;
• Leonid Gorelik at the USSR gift to the UN;
• Daulet (Dau) Satpaev in Philadelphia.

And our special guest Alexander Vavilov (Pusik), with a friend.

I've been to Moscow in December 1998, and met my classmates in Chirac restaurant (named after a valley in Armenia, not the late president of France):

1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9.

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