Two small businesses, a resident's guide to Zelenograd and a neighbourhood movement. I run all of them on my own, without employees, grants or subsidies.
An online shop selling laboratory glassware: flasks, test tubes and the like for schools, students, laboratories and chemistry enthusiasts across Russia. It grew out of a hobby: as a teenager I bought glassware for my own experiments and later sold the spare pieces online. When the first large order came in, for 20,000 test tubes, I needed a registered business, so on 22 December 2021 I registered as a sole proprietor. The shop sells through online marketplaces and its own site. I wrote its software myself, from the order admin panel and marketplace integrations to an AI helper that drafts product descriptions, which I check and approve.
democrit.ru → (in Russian)
A website that brings artificial-intelligence models from different developers together in one place, where you can put questions to them in Russian, with a Russian interface and payment in roubles. It grew out of the shop's own tools in 2026. I do everything myself, from writing the code to answering users' questions.
mishai.ru → (in Russian)
My Russian-language site. More than 160 pages on how Zelenograd works for a resident: every clinic in Zelenograd with phone numbers and measured waiting times, the “My Documents” public-service centres, the housing maintenance company, district administrations and the prefecture, state bodies, schools, kindergartens, colleges, sports and leisure. The guide's pages are checked against official sources and carry the date of the check; what could not be confirmed is marked as such. Alongside the guide are instructions on how to write an appeal to a district administration, a housing maintenance company or a clinic so that it gets a substantive answer, and an explanation of how voting in Moscow works.
mishkazel.ru → (in Russian)
A community of neighbours in Zelenograd who care about what happens in their courtyard, in their district and at elections, and who are learning how to get results: reporting problems with the courtyard and the stairwell, signing collective appeals, coming to clean-up days, talking to neighbours, writing about the district, observing elections. The name comes from the demarch, the elected head of a deme (a self-governing district) in ancient Athens. The demarch's rule: you are responsible for what is within arm's reach. It is neither a party organisation nor a job; I organise it myself and read every request to join. Training takes place in the “Demarch school of municipal work”: how to write an appeal that gets a real answer, how elections are run, how to look after a courtyard and a district.
How to join → (in Russian)
Write to me: I would be glad to talk about running a one-person business in Russia, building a resident's guide, or organising neighbours.
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