Alexandra Goryashko

I'm eternally grateful to her for teaching me that auto accidents are an aspect of reality that may concern me - a fact . We got off lightly in May 2010 but the idea of making a driver out of Alexandra was scrapped. Instead, in the context of my projects, she reverted to her customary role of being responsible for locating and organizing information while I, contrary to the original deal, ended up driving her truck. She monitors airport arrivals, advises me on road conditions, and does quick searches if am not able to answer my clients' questions right away. In real life Alexandra realizes her attraction to things weird and nonsensical by compiling biographies of obscure polar scientists, maintaining the site of the Kandalaksha Nature Reserve, and climbing cliffs over the White Sea in search of Common Eider eggs that she has been measuring with a Vernier caliper for the last 30 years. Suppose her association with me is part of the pattern.

In whatever capacity you hire me you will also get Alexandra's support, and vice versa.

Talk to her if you are looking for information of any sort. Archive work is her particular area of expertise.

Geographically, she knows well the Russian north, from Karelia and up, and especially the White Sea cost. The Moscow to Kola project would get nowhere without her providing bits of info and prodding me into updating the site once in a while.

Alexandra also is extremely well-oriented in and around graveyards, and has an exceptional luck finding dead bodies washed up to the White Sea islands. An average of one per summer, and in her group she is the one to spot them first. She can be hired to look for graves or other traces of your close ones in Russia. She can also organize grave care.

Kandalaksha Nature Reserve. Summer 2011.

Contact Alexandra at alexandragor4@yandex.ru.

In June, July, and August of every summer, while she is counting and measuring Sоmateria mоllissima, Alexandra's Moscow apartment is available for rent. Three minutes from Metro Alexeyevskaya. Walking distance to the Sokolniki park. Your typical residential Moscow. One bedroom. Unlimited fast internet and WiFi. AIR CONDITIONING.   The rate of $70/night, $400/week, $1200/month!  See www.cheap-moscow.com/alexeyevskaya.htm for more info and lots of photos of the apartment and the neighbourhood.