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Yury is the pioneer of action sports media in Russia – he co-owns the one of the first major snowboarding web resources – Snowlinks, holds Russian Snowboard Awards and now sole handedly edits the Russian version of Source, Europe's major action sports-themed business magazine.
I started rollerblading and snowboarding back in high school. After three years of solemn riding I got bored and started conquering rails and other uneven surfaces . This led me to breaking my collarbone. Twice. I decided to give my arm a rest but did not want to let go of the sport so I started writing about it. At the time there was not enough media on action sports, so I created livejournal communities where I shared links to cool snowboarding news, articles and videos which eventually grew into a proper web resource.
I have two additional projects now for which I monitor news, collect articles and put information together: Russian Snowboard Awards is a competition which essentially determines the best Russian snowboarders and helps them get sponsorship deals. Media publications on riders that I collect determine results of the vote. Source is a snowboarding magazine for which I curate and publish articles, create snowboarding market snapshots and attract advertisers.
I collect content in Word documents and distribute via e-mail. It would have been a lot more convenient to have a tool which would have links with previews that I could organize by project and never lose.
