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I was born in Kyiv, Ukraine on May 4, 1970. Since childhood, I was drawn to the sky and was put into rapture from aircrafts. I still have school notebooks with drawings of different models of aircrafts, mainly ones I invented myself. Since those early years I dreamed of being an aircraft designer. In the fifth grade, I decided that I would learn the profession at the Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology (MIPT). When the time came for admission to university, my father, who was in charge of the department at the Institute of Cybernetics in Kiev, told me that to manage flight of a plane is much more interesting than to build it. So, I transferred from Physics Department of Kyiv University (I hadn't been accepted at MIPT on my first attempt) to the Faculty of Management and Applied Mathematics at MIPT when there was much more competition for a position then this had been at admission. I was surprised to find that I could easily handle the coursework. I even passed exams in advance,..