Right now, we have people from 12 countries including USA, Israel, Canada, Germany, Australia, South Africa, Ukraine, Latvia and, of course, Russia itself. Most of them are either students or programmers (who else has unlimited access to the Net? :)). Although most of the time you will see only random chat on this channel, some serious discussion may also take place, especially between 22:00 and 24:00 EST. Often, talk ends on some other channel nearby in a smaller company for it is difficult to talk seriously in a mess of 20-30 voices.

Although many of us speak English, don't be offended if you are asked to speak Russian here: many of us get tired of non-native languages and prefer to take rest on #russian speaking Russian. Nevertheless, if you type "PRIVET!" after joining #russian, it is most likely that somebody will respond :).

#russian is a relatively anarchistic place i.e., you can say anything you want, but at the same time anybody who doesn't like what you say can kick you out. Please, remember that #russian is a public channel. Therefore, whatever you do, it should not be annoying to others. Flooders, megadeoppers and other assholes are banned. Remember:

Here, you can get a group picture of some of the #russian's regulars (an old one, so most of the people on it were on #russian at least since 1994), and two papers about IRC written by Gaika and Max Presnyakov, and Emigrant (both in KOI8).

See also:
"Last seen" service provided by Freezer [Ugen Antsilevich]
#russian Gallery by Gera [German Shpigel]

Below, you can see information about some inhabitants of the channel:

#russian regulars and non-regulars:

• abelits -- Alexander Belits [abelits@nyx.cs.du.edu]
  Likes coffee and Unix but works with MS-DOS and Netware as well. Hasn't forgot PDP-11 yet. Does not like Windows and any other crap produced by Microsoft.

• Adel -- Adel Abushaev [adel@ksu.ras.ru]
  Lives in Kazan, Central Russia, not far from Moscow. Works at the Center of Informatics and Computing in Kazan State University as programmer. Interests include networking, chatting (of course), and ... midnight walks ...
  "... Time is not enough, anyway ..."

• aggie -- []
  Aggie was on #russian almost since the time of its foundation. He is well known for the AGGIE TERROR [TM] which involves deopping and, sometimes, kicking everybody on the channel. Because of his asocial behaviour, do not give him channel op status under any circumstances.

• _Alex -- Bogomjakov Alexander [fradis@topaz.technion.ac.il]
  

• alla -- Alla Terentieva [alla@splinter.coe.neu.edu]
  

• alx -- Alex Haiut [alx@cs.bgu.ac.il]

• Andrash -- Andrey Utkin [andrash@deep-thought.demos.su]
  

• Arhip -- Igal Shkolnik Igal Shkolnik [ishkolni@sunshine.cs.biu.ac.il]
  

• ari -- Arina Shulga [aishulga@mhc.mtholyoke.edu]
  

• az -- []
  

• beau -- []
  

• BuTEK -- Victor Friedman [victorf@primenet.com]
  Multimedia programmer, professional musician, anything you want me to be.

• bravo -- Michael Bravo []
  

• Brunetka -- Irina Nizmutdinova [ianizm0@mik.uky.edu]
  

• Bushka -- Vladimir Bushel [bushel@komkon.org]
  

• cesar -- ??? []
  

• Chumka -- Alan Arolovitch [alan@sunshine.cs.biu.ac.il]
  

• comp -- Michael Koyfman [m-koyfman@nwu.edu]
  

• Critter [aka Lapochka] -- Sandy Kovshov []
  

• Crocodile -- Andrey Stolyarov [crocodil@redsun.cs.msu.su]
  

• SVC -- Dmitry Valdov [dv@kis.nnov.su]
  SVC is known for writing a conamed virus ;)

• daugava -- Andrei Zaitsev [daugava@crl.com]
  

• DCDance -- Arsen Daniel [arsen@datasrv.co.il]
  DCDance lives in Jerusalem. He is a graphic designer working as an Art Manager for Tower Records, Israel.

• dra-dra -- []
  

• eagle -- Dmitry Orel [eagle@deep-thought.demos.su]
  

• Edik -- Edward Bonver [exb1874@ultb.isc.rit.edu]
  Edik studies in the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is originally from Riga, Latvia, and likes to read books, play piano and program computers.

• Emigrant -- Anton Nossik [anton@koan.com]
  Jerusalem-based, 30 years old, divorced, ex-journalist, gone nuts and HTML. On IRC since march 1994, undergone serious treatment a coupla dozen times, but could never give up this addiction. Thinks that the Kingdom of God belongs to the Lame and the Clueless.

• emsi -- Andrey Gerasimov [andy@netclub.ru]
  

• Erez -- Eugene Vaynshteyn [vaynsh@cooper.edu]
  Immigrant from Kishinev, residing in New York, staunch Zionist and architecture student. Despite the young age (D.O.B. 10.07.77), addicted to the IRC, founder of #kishinev and editor of the Voice of Kishinev Jewry monthly internet edition. Characterized as "friendly, but merciless".

• Freezer [aka UgEn] -- Ugen Antsilevich [ugen@NetVision.net.il]
  Freezer is a big fan of FreeBSD Unix.

• Gabi -- [Gabi@deep-thought.burka.demos.su]
  

• Gesha -- Gennadiy Gulchin [lgulchin@lynx.cs.usfca.edu]
  

• Gleb -- []
  

• G00Guy -- []
  

• gaika -- Alla Pecherskaya []
  

• Gera -- German Shpigel [gera@bigfoot.com]
  Gera is an IRC veteran (since January 1991) and a witness of #russian channel birth. He also maintains a photo gallery of the channel at

  http://burka.netvision.net.il/~gera/album.htm

• Gera2 -- Henry Dorfman [dorfma@sunshine.cs.biu.ac.il]
  

• Ghostie -- Sergej Pachkovskij [ps@ocisgi7.unizh.ch]
  

• Gosha -- Grigorij Itkis [chorny@shum.cc.huji.ac.il]
  

• GUNA -- Guna Ustupe [gunaus@kristin.cclu.lv]
  

• Hatta -- []
  

• Hippy -- Maxim Shklyar [shklyar@bgumail.bgu.ac.il]
  Hippy has been born in Minsk, on January 13, 1976, and now lives in Beer-Sheva and studies computer science in Ben-Gurion University. His hobbies include rock music and avangard art.

• Hirsh -- Mark Gifesman [lictor.acsu.buffalo.edu]
  

• Imann -- Pavel Groisman [groisman@phobos.ucs.umass.edu]
  "Step by step, walking barefooted on the water..." -- K.Kinchev
  My friends, let my unrestricted computer-freedom praising voice resound in your electronic ears! IRC is a theater and i am just one of the decorations consisting of blurred New Age melodies and the Theory of Chaos and Dynamical Analysis. Don't be carried away by computer love dreams, preserve your light for the life and be happy!

• IMPERATOR -- Boris Shafir [bxs7266@cs.rit.edu]
  

• irisha -- Irina Kosinovsky []
  

• Irka -- Irina Sokolova [e9326330@stud1.tuwien.ac.at]
  

• Jenik -- [jenik@bgumail.bgu.ac.il]
  Jenik likes computers, music (heavy metal), and karate.

• Jew -- []
  

• JimmyPage -- David Elkind [delkind@sunshine.cs.biu.ac.il]
  Lives in Rehovot, Israel. Probably will study in Technion, but probably not :). Hobbies: Music, Programming. Here is an
  IRC II client for MS Windows by JimmyPage

• Julka1 -- []
  Julka was born in Minsk, but lives in NewYork since 1992. She is majoring in Computer Science at Brooklyn College.

• Junta -- Gregory Golberg [grisha@mit.edu]
  Yes, it is the one and only Cristobal Joseevich Junta, former Grand Inquisitor, and now Master of Black Magic and head of The Department of the Meaning of Life at NIICHAVO. He's still a very good taxidermist, so beware lest he gets to you first and you'll have to share the corner of his office at NIICHAVO with the late (now stuffed) standartenfuhrer.

• kA -- []
  

• klyopka -- []
  

• KO3A [Alaska] -- []
  

• KO3A [Israel] -- []
  

• Kot [Israel] -- Vadim Gusis [kot@wiscpb.weizmann.ac.il]
  

• KoT [US] -- Alex Birman [birman@scf.usc.edu]
  Also known as KeT, C2H5OH, Argus, K-t.
  "So many women, so little time!"
  I'm a reasonably good looking, intelligent young man. Live and study in Los Angeles, at USC (University of Southern California, not of South Carolina, as some people may infer). Bio major (pre-Med, of course). Born in Kishinev, Moldova; had lived for 13 years in Magadan. Have been in US since 1991. Work in a computer lab helping brainless business students with their homeworks. Hobbies mostly include women. Any further information might be given upon request.

• lanny -- Leon Rosenberg [lanny@cs.tu-berlin.de]
  

• leka -- Olya Brook [leka@md2.huji.ac.il]
  Leka studies medicine in Jerusalem.

• Lesik -- Leonid Natapov [nataful@popeye.cc.biu.ac.il]
  

• Levon -- Leonid Delitsin [delitsin@ice.geology.wisc.edu]
  

• lilka
  

• lisichka -- []
  

• Lo -- Linor Goralik [linor@cs.bgu.ac.il]
  She is more than just Lo. She is Lo. She is told to be Lo and nothing more, but she is Lo, and there is nothing to be done with it. Maybe from the first sight she looks like Lo, but look at her closer, and you'll see she is Lo. She behaves like Lo, she speaks like Lo, she likes everything Lo likes. So you can be sure she is Lo, despite of the fact anyone tells she is only Lo. Moreover, she is Lo, I told you...
  more...

• Lodrion -- Leonid Taycher [leo-lion@csa.bu.edu]
  Would be a religion major if he could get any money for it :), but since he can't, he studies CS in Boston University.
  • Likes reading books, any books,especially fantasy. See his Tolkienist Page .
  • Does not like to study
  • Likes his computer
  • Does not like lamers
  • Likes old rock (Pink Floyd, Queen, Doors)
  • Hates modern music
  • Does not start a fight
  • But always finishes it

• loony -- Olechka Tarnarutskiy [ny943065@pace.vm.dac.pace.edu]
  I like to talk, think, and plan for the future. Sorta financial wizard you may say. Scared to death of computers, but totally hooked on IRC.

• LoverBoy -- Igor Desyatnikov [id10@cornell.edu]
  

• M16 -- Alex Grinman [grinman@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il]
  

• Maga -- []
  

• malinka -- []
  

• maramoyka -- Yevgenia Kurts [yqk2336@is2.nyu.edu]
  I was born in St.Petersburg, Russia, on May 26, 1973. I live partly in NYC, where I study literature and linguistics at NYU, and partly in Piter. My main hobby and possible future profession is writing short stories, mostly about myself or people I know. My other hobbies include reading, modern art, and music which is natural since many of my friends are musicians. I also smoke a lot and live more or less crazy life. People call me Zhen'ka or [in russian transcription] }|{EHbKA :)

• MATb -- []
  

• Matroskin -- []
  

• MaxF -- Maxim Fortun [fortun@yu1.yu.edu]
  Computers and programming are his hobby as well as the main course of study. Likes roller-blading, reading some c00l SF books, watching TV, and, of course, chatting. Very friendly personality, eveready to help. Talk to him to find out more.

• maxi -- []
  

• maxic -- []
  

• MaxK -- []
  

• medved -- Andrew Lyovochkin [andrew@fantom.demos.su]
  Lives in a lair near Novosibirsk, Siberia. Likes beer, Unix and free TCP/IP.

• mishania -- Michael Sokolov []
  

• MisterX -- Felix K. [fk614gpw@csa.bu.edu]
  

• MITman -- []
  

• MOHAX -- Igor Brezhnev [mohax@goodnet.com]
  MOHAX aka Roman Oira Oira - COTPYDHuK Huu4ABO, creator of #moscow IRC channel homepage.

• MoSFeT -- Mark Khusid [khusid@yu1.yu.edu]
  Loves music, women, computers, SCI FI, everything that can be powered by up to 6 D batteries, and some other cool stuff that anyone might like.

• MPAK -- Maksim Razumkin [razumkin@bu.edu]
  Maksim Razumkin is a creator of the Official Russian Heraldry Page .

• Mumitroll -- []
  

• MVP -- Max Vengerov [vmaxX@iil.intel.com]
  
  • Born: July 11, 1979, Alma-Ata, Kazahstan
  • Lives in: Beer-Sheva, Israel
  • Major: Architechture
  • Loves: Computers, Music(heavy metal, classic), Movies, Romantic and Sophisticated Love, Cats, Cars.

• Myp -- Vitaliy Grinberg [OLG@DARTMOUTH.EDU]
  I like computers and everything else. Kinda standard hacker. Especially love to hack human's souls. BTW, I hate IRC. :)

• Mypka -- Marat Matosov []
  

• natashka -- []
  

• Nelli -- Nelli Zinder [nelli@socs.uts.edu.au]
  

• Nemo -- [nemo@sfsu.edu]
  There is some guy in Israel, trying to clone me, but don't pay attention to him... I'm the one :) My hobbies are Ice skating, Biking and might be C++ pretty soon... (Yeah right :) I do workout sometimes, when I have the time. I study Computer Science and some other unrelated to the real world subjects called "General Education" at San Francisco State University. Well, I think that's enough for now, see ya on iRC :)

• nobby -- Vitaly Shmatikov [shmat@Stanford.EDU]
  

• nrain -- []
  

• NyQuil -- Alexander Rylyakov [sasha@rsfq1.physics.sunysb.edu]
  
  • Born: 1966, Saratov
  • Graduated: 1989, FOPF
  • Height: 182 cm
  • Weight: 85 kg
  • TOEFL score: 660
  • Last time saw Paris: July, 1991

• Nyusha -- []
  

• odesit -- Yevgeniy Rozinskiy [yevgeniy@odessit.com]
  Came to San Francisco from Odessa. Truly believe that Odessa is the best city in the world. [Go ahead, kick me for this :)))] Everything else can be found from http://www.odessit.com/ (under construction). Was on #russian almost from the creation of this monster.

• OK -- Oleg Kagan []
  

• Olegik -- ??? [olegik@remus.rutgers.edu]
  
  • Nicks: Olegik, Olega, Ole}I{uk, Ole}I{ka, Oleggator.
    All Rights Reserved (c) 1995
  • On IRC since April 1994. Spent approximately one month of total time on it. Known for the logging software developed in mailbombing purposes. :)
  • Studying at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Sophomore/junior in Computer Science and Economics majors.
  • Likes: speed driving, beer (sometimes), girls, IRC (trying to get rid of it), parties, formatting hard drives, crashing MSWindows (to be continued...)
  • Dislikes: absence of sense of humor, slow driving, stupid customers, customers in general, software stores, slow typing, ugly girls, people from #moscow trying to "kachat' prava".
  • SPECIAL: MATb. :)
    VERY SPECIAL: none.
    TAWKEHT - MOE DETCTBO.
    TAWKEHT - MOE OTPO4ECTBO.

• olegus -- []
  

• Ostap -- Shura Petrushko [petr@csua.berkeley.edu]
  

• pafic -- []
  

• para -- Sergei Stepanenko [sstepane@geraldine.mcrest.edu]
  

• PapaKarlo -- Andrey Kochursky [kochurs@birisc.cs.biu.ac.il]
  I'm a student of Bar-Ilan University (CS & Statistics), young, handsome, well built. Papa of #russian and husband of Mama (he is lying, sucker :) Pjotr is Mama's husband and Satan is #russian's father -- RST38h). I love gorgeous girls, music, reading books, playing computer games and everything else that THIS reality has to offer! And of course IRC, otherwise what would I be doing here? :))))

• PoL -- Ilia Zilberman [izilberm@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il]
  

• prool -- Serge Pustovoitoff [prool@infocom.kharkov.ua]
  Serge lives in Kharkov, Ukraine and works as a system administrator at infocom.kharkov.ua. He is also a sysop of FIDONet node 2:461/35 and a president of a computer club JNP. Serge is writing a POSIX&UNIX-compatible OS PROOLIX.

• Psihi -- Ilya B. [Psihi@palata6.kashenko.msk.su]
  Psihi are the most crazy and lovely creatures on #russian. There are 28 of them at the present time but disease is still in progress... :) They also helped to write an introduction to this WWW page.
  PS: The ones with odd numbers can also be reached at ilya@myself.com.

• Pukner -- []
  

• Ratinov -- Pasha Ratinov []
  

• rdy -- Dmitry Ruban [dima@FreeBSD.ORG]
  "All information should be free"

• Ri -- Margarita Belousova [mvbelous@mhc.mtholyoke.edu]
  

• RST38h -- Marat Fayzullin [marat at server komkon dot org]
  Maintains this homemape, several other WWW pages, a group picture of #russian and 2 FAQ lists on USENET. Hobbies include:
  • Reading [esp. JRRT and books by Strugatsky brothers]
  • The Net in general and IRC in particular
  • Computers in general and Amiga in particular
  • Video Games [esp. portable ones like GameBoy]
  • Old Computers [ ZXSpectrum, MSX, etc.]

• rusa -- []
  

• sad -- Alexander Dorohov [sad@sun.nstu.nsk.su]
  

• Saruman -- []
  

• Scorpion -- ??? [bkreitch@sunshine.cs.biu.ac.il]
  

• serg -- Sergey Gribov [sergey@cs.bgu.ac.il]
  

• sergrin -- Sergey Grinkrug [sergrin@glue.umd.edu]
  

• Sgt -- Sergei Barbarash [sgt@actcom.co.il]
  

• Shchuka -- Aleksandr Gekht [Gekht@bcvms.bc.edu]
  Not very old, only 20, will notify when turns 21 [HASN'T -- RST38h]. Probably going to be a computer programmer. Likes:
  • Internet in general and IRC in particular - he was the one who got ircII client for VMS machines in BC (Boston College where he is an undergrad).
  • Chess, Tennis, Soccer.
  • Music - not all, but some of it, especially soft.
  • Computers - PC as currently owned and any new as never seen.
  • C++, although he doesn't like C and TurboVision, although he doesn't like Pascal.
  • Collecting trash, especially if it can be of any use - his first computer in USA was an IBM XT 1980 found in the garbage.
  • (The most important) being ALONE!
  Doesn't like:
  • When somebody tries to make him eat something.
  • When somebody disturbs him a lot.
  • Everything else. :)

• shekel -- []

• Slavik -- []
  This is not the one from umd.edu.

• Sll -- Slava Glukhov Oldest (32 years old) and probably wisest member of the #russian community ;). Happy husband and father. Hobbies:
  • Electrical Engineering, especially, fixing broken toasters and washers. He also does image processing and solar flare prediction.
  • Reading. You can talk to him about literature, the only thing is not to mention "russian intelligentia"...
  • Music. Classical, Jazz, Jazz-rock, Beatles, LZ, Chick Corea, Al DiMeola, Joe Zawinul. Can play piano, guitar, sax.
  • Computers?
    "I don't know really. Sometimes I hate them all. But I cannot survive a day without them. I can resolve IRQ conflict inside my Packard Bell. I have no idea why Mac... just - why Mac???"
    - a monologue of Dr. Berlioz from Sll's novel "Ships of Dr. Berlioz".
  Sll has total /ignore on sobaka30, bonvivant and *@*harvard.edu in his .ircrc :)).

• spartak -- Shalman Oleg [shalman@cs.biu.ac.il]
  Hobbies are soccer and chess. No other info available.

• step -- []
  

• Stormie -- Igor Chunikhin [igor@ktts.kharkov.ua]
  System administrator at Kharkov Telephone and Telegraph Station. Has interests of a usual Unix junkie i.e. Unix, beer, TCP/IP, girls, etc.

• StR -- Igor Roshchin [igor@uiuc.edu]
  When he is asked about the meaning of his nick on IRC, he is answering:
  • StR is for St-Ranger, Strange-R, StRange and also IgoR.
  • StR is neither simplification nor abbreviation.
  • StR is rather a generalization for ease of communication.
  No more, no less...

• tanya [aka tata aka Tutta] -- Tatyana Staver [tanya@denali.ccs.neu.edu]
  

• tikitavi -- Nikki Chumakov [nikki@online.ru]
  Probably the first man who was in Moscow and on IRC at the same time.

• tima -- Timur Ruban [truban@hal.hartford.edu]
  Progressor. Interests:
  • Social Sciences
  • Experimental History
  • Far East
  • Secret Services
  • New Age
  • Composing music

• Timka -- Timofej Cherkasov [tcherk@RISC.uni-linz.ac.at]
  
  • "SKOBAR'" by nationality and life style ;-)
  • Born in Leningrad at 10th of June 1969
  • Started studying mathematics at "FMSh No45" in 1983
  • Graduated from St.Petersburg State University (AM-PM)
  • Wasted two years in f**king Soviet Army (DMB 89)
  • Husband and a happy father

• Toddles -- []
  

• Tomka -- Tamara Potselueva
  

• TRex -- Marc Bolan [MarcBolan@PFC.MIT.EDU]
  

• Tushka -- Konstantin Bartenev [bartenev@kurort.komkon.org]
  Extremely attractive Caucasian male, 21, 6'3", blue eyes, heterosexual (probably), studying political science and international economics - wants to be rich-as-a-fat-rat. Lives by himself, from time to time gets pissed off but not for long. Doesn't make friends but new people to talk to are welcome. Doesn't know anything about merzotnik so don't ask.

• UAF -- [FSVVV@aurora.alaska.edu]
  

• U-Janus -- Igor Braverman [igor@sunshine.cs.biu.ac.il]
  U-Janus is a system administrator. His hobby is closing users' accounts which seems to be a usual hobby of any system administrator :).

• Uncle -- Michael Margolis [margolis@wam.umd.edu]
  

• valik -- []
  

• vels -- Vladimir Lobak [lubek@sunshine.cs.biu.ac.il]
  

• Vertex

• vsv -- []
  

• wij -- Oleg Lunyakin [gav@mpool.ktts.kharkov.ua]
  Wijik from Lugansk. Student, fanatic, and idiot enough to spend money on IRC :)).

• xalex -- Alexander Haiut [haiut@cs.bgu.ac.il]
  3rd year student at CS and Math dept. Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
  What do I like !?..
  • networking, maybe programming..
  • sure, TV (and MTV)..
  • books.. books.. (so many different..)
  • hmm.. IRC-ing, yes !

• XPOH -- Boris Ekelchik [cve@tiamat.umd.umich.edu]
  

• xwing -- Oleg Aleksandrov [xwing@netcom.com]
  

• Yalla -- Mark Loksin [1962-1995]
  Born in Baku. Buried in Haifa.
  Yalla was on IRC since 1992. Those who knew him (especially those who met him in real life) can witness that he was an exceptionally friendly and warm person. His readiness to help everybody was extraordinary. His IRCNAME "Leisure Suit Yalla" derived from the notorious Sierra game about Larry Laffer suited him in some way. But what was different is that women liked Yalla. He was a very interesting and incredibly generous person. He worked as a programmer for Israeli Electric Company. Yalla died on 27.3.95 from sudden asthma attack :(.

• Yama -- []
  

• Yuka -- Julian Ribinik [yuka@aquanet.co.il]
  

• yul -- Julia Ilyutovich [jai2@po.cwru.edu]
  

• yuric -- Yura Socolov [yura@deep-thought.demos.su]
  

• Zelts -- Lev Zeltsburg [levz@tmx100.telrad.co.il]
  Has a beatiful daughter and is very proud of her. Likes preferans, mountains and good science fiction. Programmer and drinker.

• zy -- Lenushka Tyszkiewicz [zy@dream.demos.su]