I was born in Ukraine in Mariupol city in 1975, in period of the Soviet Union. I had very various intereststs in my childhood. A couple of years I was interested in Biology, I even reared different animals at home. But in the age of 12 I took a great interest in Physics. I was very interested in the world structure and it's origin. I took part in different physics contests pretty successful. I was also interested in math. In the age of 14 I wrote a small research about the solution of differential equations. In general I was interested in everything that was logical, everything that slightly opened a curtain of mystery over how everything was organized. I almost didn't attend school in my last years, I had an individual schedule. I entered university on a physical faculty without any exams. I was interested in programming since my childhood. During my last years of school I was usually sitting at my mom's work and programed. At that time the most cool processor was 8086. When I was on my first year of University I wrote a valid debugger on Assembler. That was my first really big program.

    Yet I was tormented by my inner antagonisms. I suffered because my inner person differed a lot compared with my outer person. Outwardly I seemed to be a good person, but inwardly I was full of corrupted images and desires. I was hold by my shyness from letting myself a full control during my «students life». However my shyness didn't stop me from living a double life: decent outwardly but quite different inwardly! I bought a lot of pornographic magazines.

    On my third year of University I was invited to study the Bible in one students church. I agreed. It was a bit interesting, besides that time I couldn't say «NO». But I attented the church not long, I argued with a «shepherd» and I continued to be a convinced atheist. In Summer after my second year I went home. When I came back I refused to continue the Bible studying. I'd made up a pretty convincing theory about how could everything come from nothing. For two years after that I'd been trying to convince myself that God doesn't exist. I gave a hard «No!» on each invitation to come to the church. I wanted to live a pure righteous life filled with the truth... though without God, but reality showed me it was impossible. Corruption in my mind, pornographic magazines — all those things were a secret part of my life. So one day when I was on my fifth year of University I spoke to one of my friends who had become a Christian recently. He confessed that he had the same problems. Then I decided to myself that my life was to be changed, so I went to the church, where I'd been studying the Bible earlier, and asked to study it with me again. I had decided to follow that way to the end. I saw that the Christ himself and all the things he tought was the truth. I repented, I'd thrown my case with pornomagazines and decided to live a new life as a desciple of Jesus. My mom opposed me and cried a lot. I loved her very much and it was very hard for me to see her tears, but I'd already decided to become a Christian and follow the Christ.

    After my fifth year of University I decided that I would be a programmer and not a physicist. Though I'm still interesting in physics, especially I'm concerned with a question about the boundary between quantum and classical physics, because this question remains to be open till now.

    I became a programmer. I worked in a very small company for a short period of time. That company made russian translations of different games. I was supposed to define a data format in which games' texts and fonts were stored. In that time it was quite legal in Ukraine, though it was clear that my employers were engaged in piracy. In our times piracy and infringement of copyright concideres as a grave crime, but thenadays no one cared about that. I felt myselt uncomfortable on that job, so I left as soon as I could. That company folded up soon.

    Getting a new job was very easy and unusual. My future boss saked me if I could make a game like Warcraft II in 8 months term? I said «yes» with confidence. He asked me about salary I would like to have. I told him (that was rather large sum of money for that time). He agreed and told me to bring a game demo in a month. So in a month I brought the demo; he looked, amazed, and that is how we started to work together. At that time I wasn't an expert in C++. I had been programming on Assembler and Pascal, so I had to learn C++ at the same time. When the game was on it's closing stage I moved to the company's office for I'd been working at home.

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