• Description: Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Krasko is a Russian traveller, author and entrepreneur with a PhD in Economics. After graduating from the Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance and the University of Paris IX-Dauphine, he held senior positions in leading Russian banks for seventeen years and served as Financial Director in companies belonging to Roman Abramovich and Oleg Deripaska. In April 2010 he resigned and set off on a round-the-world journey lasting just over one year, visiting 36 countries across six continents and covering 137,000 km in total, of which 52,000 km overland. On his return in 2011 he was admitted to the Union of Russian Around-the-World Travellers and founded his own adventure travel company, "The Year of Spring" (Год Весны). He recounted the journey in God Vesny ("The Year of Spring", Postum, Moscow, 2012)
  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Russia, Russia, Russie
  • Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
  • Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Vari, Divers
  • Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
  • Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav_Krasko
  • Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4239824
  • Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Krasko, Vyacheslav. God Vesny: Puteshestviye dlinoyu v god. Mosca: Postum, 2012.
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Precursori, Forerunners, Précurseurs
Viaggi stravaganti, Weird travels, Voyages insolites
Globetrotter contemporanei, Contemporary globetrotters, Globetrotteurs contemporains
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