Vyacheslav Krasko
| Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Krasko | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 6, 1974 Leningrad |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Other names | Vyacheslav Krasko |
| Known for | traveler, top manager and professional financier |
Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Krasko (Russian: Вячеслáв Васильевич Крaськó) (born August 6, 1974 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is a Russian traveler, top manager and professional financier with a PhD Economics. Member of the Union of Russian Around-the-World Travelers.
Krasko graduated St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance, with a specialty in "World Economy". He continued his education in France at the Economic University of Paris IX-Dauphine with the specialty "Management of public and private enterprises".
From 1993 to 1999 he held main posts in the leading Russian banks, and from 1999 to 2010 he was a Financial Director in some large Russian companies.
At the beginning of April 2010 he gave up the work of Financial Director and traveled around the world. When he returned in 2011, he was invited in the Union of Russian Around-the-World Travelers and founded his touristic company “The Year of Spring” (Russian: Год весны).
On 10 October 2012 Krasko became the winner of the international photo-competition “People of India” in Naggar (the Kullu District of Himachal Pradesh, India).
Vyacheslav continues to travel: he has been to many places of local conflicts and ecological disasters. In 2013 he’s planning to make a journey entitled, “Ruta del Che” (“The way of Che Guevara”), by motorcycle in South America along the route of Ernesto Che Guevara, and has begun creating a feature-length fictional film, “The Year of Spring” (Russian: Год весны).
His first travel round the world began April 2010 in Asia and lasted 407 days.
Beginning he flew from Moscow, he flew to Uzbekistan, then to the East, followed by going South to Australia, then to South America and North America; from North America he crossed the Atlantic Ocean to Africa, then he went across Africa and through the European countries he came back to Moscow. In total Vyacheslav visited 6 continents, 36 countries and 145 towns and cities, overcoming 137 000 km. The budget of the travel was 33 thousand U.S. dollars. The movements of the traveler were watched by a large number of people on-line at his website.
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