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During my time working in the media, I:

served as an editor at the magazines What’s New in Science and Technology (I worked on 11 issues of the magazine) and Popular Mechanics (Russian editorial office, Moscow; I worked on 82 issues of the magazine);
built the editorial team of the Popular Mechanics (Populiarnaya Mekhanika) portal (popmech.ru) from scratch and headed it from 2015 to 2018;
ran the “Time Machine” section in the magazine World of Fantasy (Mir Fantastiki) and an author’s column in the magazine Pointer;
published 456 articles in Popular Mechanics (Populiarnaya Mekhanika), World of Fantasy (Mir Fantastiki), GQ, Maxim, Cosmopolitan, Tatler, What’s New in Science and Technology (Chto novogo v Nauke i Tekhnike), Watch (Chasy), Salon of Real Estate (Salon Nedvizhimosti), Pointer, Oracle (Orakul), Sport Facilities, Around the World (Vokrug Sveta), and others;
edited about 300 articles by other authors for Popular Mechanics, World of Fantasy, and What’s New in Science and Technology;
created more than 200 advertising special projects and gadget reviews for major advertisers (Miele, Volvo, Panasonic, Xerox, Electrolux, Ford, and others);
wrote more than 1,200 pieces for popmech.ru; also contributed to mirf.ru, ferra.ru, vokrugsveta.ru, and other online resources;
went on around 100 international press tours;
conducted several dozen interviews in Russian, English, and French.

My work has been cited in 387 peer-reviewed articles, 99 popular science articles, 31 monographs, 31 popular science books, 75 textbooks, 4 dictionaries, 5 literary criticism collections, 15 PhD theses, 5 doctoral dissertations, 26 patents and 120 educational programmes.

Articles by year (497 in total, including illegal publications)

2007: 2
2008: 5
2009: 43
2010: 63
2011: 70
2012: 56
2013: 70
2014: 78
2015: 53
2016: 17
2017: 7
2018: 9
2019: 2
2020: 1
2021: 9
2022: 1
2023: 3
2024: 4
2025: 3
2026: 1

Articles by publication

317: Popular Mechanics
56: World of Fantasy
29: What’s New in Science and Technology
12: Sports Facilities
9: Oracle
7: Pointer
3: Watch
2: GQ
2: Herald of Aeronautics (Vestnik Vozdukhoplavaniya)
2: The Voice Mag

I wrote 1 article each for Cosmopolitan, Maxim, Tatler, Vokrug Sveta, L'Officiel Voyage Russia, Salon of Real Estate, New World (Novy Mir), Autobusiness Weekly, The End of an Era (Konets Epokhi), Literra, Technology for the Youth (Tekhnika Molodyozhi), Deltiology (Filokartiya), Knowledge is Power (Znanie—Sila), Science Governance and Scientometrics, and Trinity Variant (Troitsky Variant—Nauka).

In addition, many publications illegally reprinted my texts, borrowing them from the original sources (Popular Mechanics, World of Fantasy, popmech.ru, my blog nostradamvs.livejournal.com, and timskorenko.ru, as well as from the book Invented in Russia).

3: Position (Pozitsiya)
3: Auto-Review Kuzbass
2: Service and Parts
2: Peasant Homestead (Krestyansky Dvor)
2: AKAB Bulletin
2: Autotruck
2: Advertising and Life

1 article each was illegally published by Mysterious Stories (Tainstvennye Istorii), Slavyanin, Soviet Russia (Sovetskaya Rossiya), Evening Rostov (Vecherny Rostov), The Bukharian Times, Kontakt-Contact, Horizon (Gorizont), Physics. Everything for the Teacher! (Fizika: Vsyo dlya Uchitelia), Russian City (Russkiy Gorod), Nord Stat (Zvezda Severa), To the Rhythm of Wheels (Pod Stuk Kolyos), Thursday (Chetverg), Shomrei Shabbos, Jewish World, Our Time (Nashe Vremya), Transport Security (Transportnaya Bezopasnost), Financial Offences and Crimes, Construction Bulletin of the Baikal Region, Autoprice.rf, Kuibyshevets and Litsey.ru. In total, at the moment I know of 41 illegal publications of my articles and notes in the printed press.

Articles by subject

52: sport (about half of them on technical sports)
43: historical and biographical materials
42: water and land transport
40: art (painting and sculpture)
39: cars, motorcycles, bicycles
30: aviation and space exploration
24: futurology, future technologies, information technology
23: weapons and armoured vehicles
23: how-to pieces and science experiments
22: architecture and engineering structures
15: gadgets and technology test drives
13: versification and literature
13: mysticism, pseudoscience, religion
12: cinema, animation, photography
11: geography, travel
5: philately and deltiology
25: other articles
81: advertising materials

Regular columns

Interviews

I conducted several dozen interviews with different people and in different languages (the best-known among them, apparently, being Alain Prost, Marcel Christ, Vitaly Petrov, Alexander Pushnoy, Peter Watts, Paul Feig, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, and Katie Dippold).

Business trips

I have extensive experience of work-related travel. The most memorable trips include:

Chelyabinsk, Russia: a round of the Can-Am Trophy Russia 2011 open off-road quad series;
Reading, United Kingdom: Reading Gillette Innovation Centre (2011);
Singapore: the 2011 Formula 1 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix;
Le Mans, France: the 24 Heures du Mans 2012 race;
Grenoble, France: Xerox Research Centre Europe (2012);
Monaco: Samsung Forum 2013;
Geneva, Switzerland: Salon international de l'automobile de Genève 2013;
The Netherlands: Wageningen University and Research Centre, Utrecht University, the European Space Research and Technology Centre, and several other institutions (2013);
Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung 2013;
Málaga, Spain: Samsung Forum 2014;
Valencia, Spain: Gran Premio Generali de la Comunitat Valenciana 2014 motorcycle race;
Paris, France: Electrolux Design Lab 2014;
Turku, Finland: the ferry Viking Grace (2014);
Smolensk, Russia: a round of the Russian Circuit Racing Series at the Smolensk Ring track (2015);
Beverly Hills, California, USA: Sony Pictures Studios (2016);
Neuchâtel, Switzerland: the Ulysse Nardin watch manufacture (2016);
Barcelona, Spain: Mobile World Congress 2017.

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