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Name:
Alex
Surname:
Novikovski
Address:
Postal code: 249030
Russia Kaluga region, Obninsk, Lenin Ave., 32
- 6
City:
Country: Russia
Telephone: +
08439 5 90 27
E-mail:
alexxxnew@rambler.ru
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Description:
I'm Alex Novikovski,
born in 1963, live in Obninsk, Kaluga region,
Russia. Since my school years I've been collecting
chewing gum wrappers. That time it was quite
a difficult hobby when no gums were produced
in the USSR or imported officially. It was still
more exciting, for example, to get a wrapper
from a country like Chile or South Africa where
nobody from the USSR was officially allowed
to during the so called "iron curtain era".
Despite caustic jokes from my fellows I continued
to pick up tramped and dirty specks of paper
in the street every time I saw them, even when
I graduated from the university and had my family.
Now my collection is about 6000 items from 78
countries (with inner comics and stickers totally
about 7000 items). This hobby made me learn
English, French, Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
Now I take lessons in Arabic to be able to separate
Syrian wrappers from Algerian or Egyptian. |
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