I was born in Moscow in 1975, so I'm 24 now. I've graduated from Moscow State University, majoring in mathematics and programming there, so I could name myself as programmer. Actually, these were the days when I was crazy about programming and computers, but all things have their tendency to pass, so now I'm a rock-music fanatic.

My musical interests (in past, when I was a kid) were 60s rock'n'roll, Beatles and classic music, then I, as most people do, just wasted my time listening to the radio. Suddenly one day I heard two songs; one was "Child in Time" and another - "Lady in Black".

So I began to searching "what it was?", and found myself in the boundless world of rock music. Sometime ago I preferred Deep Purple, but Heep keeps grow on me and now for me DP is just No.2. Now I'm interesting in many rock genres, from Procol Harum to Manowar...

I was one of the happiest men in the world when I discovered those Heep pages and mailing list, and after a month of a hard thoughts I decided to add my own piece to the Heep legacy, and call it "Heepsters Highlights", and it bears Dave's award sign now.

I'm happy everytime when I receive new entries to my guestbook. I think it's a wonderful thing to do - to share knowledge to someone who wants it. Especially if they appreciated it.

My Russian Heep Page (my second opus) is another good example to this fact. I also want to say that Heep mailing list isn't only a good place for speaking about Heep, it's also a perfect place for meeting some wonderful people...and discussing Heep and beyond ! What else can I say about myself? I'm working now, but it's not programming. I'm working in publishing (DTP), with programs like Pagemaker.

My dream is to publish my own rock music magazine. I think I'm very far from it now. :) I have two additional brothers, one is a student now, and studying to be a programmer, and the other is only 11 now, but he already is writing some funny programs in Visual Basic !

My Heep collection isn't full yet, and most of my stuff is have only on cassettes. But my cassette collection isn't very tiny - more than 500 titles...

Thanks for listening,

Vladimir