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I'm Sergey

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Over the past decade, I've founded and run ventures that rethink how people learn and connect — from online universities and cultural labs to rural residencies and design-driven educational spaces.

As head of product, I was part of the Yandex Practicum founding team (2018). We grew it from zero to €12M a year and 30,000 students by 2022, with 71% of graduates finding jobs (HSE University research). I also helped bring it to the US market as TripleTen.

On the nonprofit side, I co‑founded Kruzhok, an NGO running free programs for teenagers in villages and small towns: 38 of them in six years, built with adidas, Miro, Tinkoff Bank, and Teach For All.

Forbes 30 Under 30 (2021). Featured in Deutsche Welle, Esquire, Monocle, Kommersant, RBC, and a YouTube film by Yuri Dud that got 5.7M views.

Along the way: projects for World Chess and Google, and programs with the British Council, Impact Hub, and Friedrich‑Ebert‑Stiftung.

still learning, though

These days I'm building Journey Now, an app that turns a creator’s knowledge into a guided practice journey their whole audience can follow.

Contact me on LinkedIn or at [email protected].

Paris, 2026 ☯︎ it could be us →