Victor Balabanov

How it’s all started

I was born on July, 28th, 1984 in the city of Gorlovka. As you know, there was another country on European map those days, not Ukraine. But seven years passed away and it was really big problem for soviet people when Soviet Union broke. It was difficult to understand that there were no more Soviet Union, communistic dreams were dead and it was time for new country and new thinking had already become. It was time of mind revolution and also it was time of my childhood!

I have to say some words about my parents at first. They’ve always support me, it was really safe home front for me all these years. I have to say big thanks for my parents, because I’ve always had as many free time as I needed and it bring me an opportunity to became a great person with unique reality-vision.

School

My education started when I was seven and it continues till now. My school was an ordinary school and this fact takes positive place in my biography, as I think. My marks was not perfect, but it was not bad for me because my studies take away only some part of my time. It was really good time for me, when I was a schoolboy. Teachers were not the ideal people for me. I’ve always thought that I was better of them. But it’s not true to say that about all the teachers in my school. I met some really great people there. Let me tell you their names, because this list is not so long, unfortunately. Three names should be listed here: Mikhail Aleksandrovich Kaledin, Sergey Ivanovich Ilyukhin and Georgiy Alekseevich Kazachenko. Big thanks for all you have ever done for me, my dear tutors. I met many friends in school. They are real best friends of my life, not just a cool guys, and my friendly relations with them became more powerful now than it was five years ago. I can say even more, some of my friends could be called my brothers. I hope they can say the same about me. I can say that school years was really useful and important for me, it was good time and I’ve never forget it, of course.

Physical aspect of my growth these years was not principal for me, as I think now. I tried to read more books, but it was impossible some times, because I prefer to spent my free time on a fresh air, outside walls of my personal room. Coal mining is a great part of industry in our region, that’s why you can see many pits there and almost every pit has it’s own "mountain" - pit refuse heap. I’ve always respected difficult work of the miner and have been interested in these artificial mountains, it is really great feeling, when climbing a mountain. I should advice it for all who have a chance to do it.

University

When I finished school I entered Donetsk National Technical University. It was well considered choice for me. I heard many good things about this university from my parents, because they were students of it many years ago. In DonNTU there are many modern professions that can be chosen by university entrant. I chose to become a programmer. And I don’t disappoint in my choice five years later after I did it. I take a great pleasure to be a student, because my freedom even grows after school. It’s very important thing for me.

To be continued…

At last I want to say some words about what I expect from life in future. It’s really difficult to answer for me. I am a very self-satisfied person. You could say that it’s because I am a big egoist? Maybe you are right, but it’s also another one winning point for me, as I think.