Victoria Shatalova
Professional traveler, organizer of author's tours, hiking and skiing trips, rafting
About Victoria
Professional traveler, organizer of author's tours, hikes and rafting, tour instructor. Having two higher educations and a stable, highly paid job, she decided to devote her life to traveling, because "what's the point of such a job if it interferes with traveling."
Traveled to 81 regions of Russia, visited 33 countries. Participant of many hikes, rafting and ascents, including an ascent to the highest and most dangerous volcano in Eurasia - Klyuchevskaya Sopka (4850 m), ski trips in the northern and subpolar Urals, Murmansk region and Kuznetsk Alatau.
Began traveling in 2009 with a trip to Vladimir. Having already been instantly captivated by the feeling of the road, movement, changing landscapes and new impressions during this short trip, immediately after returning she began to plan and make new trips.
Gradually the geography of her travels expanded, adding more and more remote regions of Russia and foreign countries.
Love for adventure and a sense of excitement from overcoming various difficulties that arise along the way eventually led to a passion for hiking, the routes of which gradually became more and more complex and therefore more and more exciting. Then there was a desire not only to observe the beauty of the world, but also to show it to others by organizing trips.
She loves and organizes completely diverse trips: from excursion trips with comfort to long autonomous hikes in the wild, she believes that life is multifaceted and there is a time and place for each format of travel. She loves to please people by creating individual tours, taking into account their interests. She considers the best reward to be the sincere joy of people from what they have seen and experienced during a trip.
Despite a significant number of trips abroad, she is infinitely in love with her country and is ready to discover more and more new corners of it for herself and the participants of her trips. A separate and great love is the north and the Far East with their endless expanses and the restrained beauty of snow, tundra and cold northern seas.
Victoria is a competent and experienced tourist, a positive and open-minded person, who approaches any task professionally. As a hike organizer, she is a perfectionist, thinking through the route down to the smallest detail, focused on her "charges", easy to communicate with, with a great sense of empathy for everyone.
Besides traveling:
Professes and preaches an active lifestyle, being in his free time from traveling the curator of the healthy lifestyle project Physical Transformation, a nutrition expert, a fitness trainer, runs marathons and trails, and skates in the winter.
She graduated from a music school in piano, played in a rock band, but in the end, her love of traveling won out over her love of music, leaving no time for rehearsals.
She loves to photograph the beauty she sees while traveling, it's like an attempt to take a piece of it with her, and also to show it to others, thereby motivating them to go on a trip too.
She loves to read. She is one of those strange archaic people who, on hikes, regardless of their difficulty, in addition to food and equipment, carry paper books in their backpack (sometimes several), and no - it's not heavy!
She loves theater and painting, never misses an opportunity to visit theater productions and art museums in different cities of the world.
She loves life in all its manifestations, believes that the best moment for happiness is right now.
At first there was a feeling... That feeling when you imagine yourself as a moving dot on a map somewhere far from home... It first visited me back in 2009 and still hasn't let go, constantly calling me on a journey... It makes me come up with new routes, look for new directions and go, fly, swim, walk... Probably, this is one of the strongest feelings I've ever experienced.
