Since childhood I really liked cars, in the early 90’s in Leningrad (yes in 1991 the city of St. Petersburg was still named after Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, you can read about the renaming of the city here https://clck.ru/3BRt3S) began to appear foreign cars fell into the city as a rule with diplomats or sailors who went on foreign business trips.

  Foreign-made cars of that time were fundamentally different from the VAZ family fleet, which was based on rear-wheel drive models with the classic layout 2101-2107 and front-wheel drive varieties 2108,/09, Gaz 21 and 24, AZLK Moskvich 412, 2140 and 2141. There were no automobile centers of various car manufacturers common in today’s realities.

The car business was just beginning its development, you can read about it here https://clck.ru/3BRtVF .

  Looking at foreign cars and business technologies, new car dealerships, I decided to enter a university related to automotive transport.

  So in 1998 after secondary school with intensive study of physics and mathematics, when entering the Automobile and Road Institute, which is part of the St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the department of TERA Technical Operation and Repair of Automobiles, here https://clck.ru/3BRsAb  you can get acquainted with the department and the institute on the specialty AC (car service) I scored 9 points on the results of entrance exams, and admission to budgetary places in this direction was possible only if you get 1

  And according to the results of entrance examinations I could not enter the budgetary place and I was offered to enter on a commercial basis, but I refused, I decided to go another more difficult and risky way.