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When I was six I determined that kindergarten was a closed chapter of my life and I firmly resolved to study. In such a way I appeared to be enrolled to a whole raft of preschool hobby-groups. Most of all I liked swimming, and other ones, frankly speaking, were soon left off by me.
At the age of seven years old, i.e. in 1993 I entered the school # 37 in Donetsk. In junior grades I studied according to Valdorf’s System. As they told, it was German system of education, according to which, in addition to average disciplines we studied such exotic ones as: wax modeling, crocheting (later it became my hobby in which I indulge even now) and knitting, pottery, fife, and later, fortepiano playing (unfortunately this study wasn’t completed by me). In the second grade we visited Western Ukraine. It’s necessary to point out that this traveling has strongly impressed me.
Soon it appeared that this system of education didn’t work, i.e. the experiment failed. So the fifth grade of education I started at physico-mathematical form of the same school. That year teachers decided that I had an aptitude for mathematics and since the sixth grade I constantly took part at regional contests in mathematics. But it was only beginning, I also took part and won at different district contents (in informatics, physic, chemistry and I even had hold the third place in biology competition). Since the 7th grade I studied at Open Mathematics College established on the basis of Donetsk State University. Being at the fifth grade I started participation at “Kenguru” and “Zolotoy Klyuchik” International Contests and held the medal places. Moreover I was engaged in sport ballroom dances, basketball and volleyball.
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