You can organize your life in such a way that you don’t spend all the time just on work and responsibilities, but also have the opportunity to do what you love, develop personally and travel. It is these principles that Ilya Alexandrovich Varlamov adheres to - a popular blogger. He is an avid traveler and a talented photographer.
Biography of Ilya Varlamov
Ilya was born in one of the Moscow maternity hospitals on January 7, 1984. He had a childhood like all the kids of the Soviet era - kindergarten, school, friends, hobbies. From an early age, the boy was very fond of drawing, so after graduation, the family advised him to go to an architectural institute. Already in the 3rd year of high school, he became known to many people by the fact that, as a student, he organized an architectural studio with a friend, and he was called only Varlamov Ilya Alexandrovich. Student's parents are educated and intelligent people. They graduated together at the time the Moscow Aviation Institute and worked all their lives for the good of the country. My father worked in the field of logistics, and my mother even participated in large spacecraft development projects.
Personal life of a blogger
Despite an active social life and entrepreneurial activity, Ilya Alexandrovich Varlamov has been the husband of a rather successful and beautiful woman and the father of a charming daughter since 2013. Usually, various gossip and rumors appear on the Internet around famous and famous personalities. This did not pass by Elijah. In blogs and forums, the topic of Maxim Katz 's unconventional sexual orientation was actively discussed , with whom Ilya Aleksandrovich Varlamov allegedly had close relations. The wife (photo below) of our hero, Love is a very beautiful young woman. In addition, Ilya is a wonderful husband and father who does not have a soul in his family. He brings up his daughter Elena and son Lyubov from his first marriage. Therefore, those who are familiar with the marital status of our hero, were very doubtful of such dirty gossip. Varlamov Ilya Alexandrovich, wife and their children respect and tenderness to each other. They can be called an ideal family.
Lyubov Varlamova hails from Izhevsk. But, having moved to the capital, she managed to build a career and become a successful woman. She is an architect by education, she is engaged in projects and business in a company organized by her husband Ilya Alexandrovich Varlamov.
Blogging
The blog, which Ilya has been conducting in the LiveJournal since July 2006 under the nickname varlamov.ru (Zyalt), is in the ranking among users in one of the first places. It pleases readers with the latest and most relevant information, flavored with illustrations and numerous photos of what is happening. Therefore, blog attendance reaches about several million per month, Ilya has a large army of subscribers.
Varlamov positions himself as a supporter of the liberal opposition, supports their movements and actions. Our hero actively and quite widely covers various political events in his blog, for example, clashes on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow in 2010 or riots on the Maidan in central Kiev in 2014.
Ilya Aleksandrovich Varlamov considers himself to be an urbanist, therefore he is very critical and active in landscaping and beautification of Russian cities, which is often covered in his blog. In particular, the young architect touches on the sore topic of parking, familiar to most residents of big cities, as well as the lack of landscaping and the widespread abundance of advertising, which spoils the appearance of megacities. He criticizes the construction of multi-storey buildings, even in small towns, believing that this will inevitably lead to crime in ant hill areas. Ilya actively supports the development of public transport and hates underpasses. So the lion's share of the blog is devoted to the state of many Russian cities and the problems of their inhabitants.
Commercial activities and business projects
As mentioned above, Ilya, being a 3rd year student of the institute, founded, together with another Artem, an architectural design studio for visualizing objects in 3D mode. Young businessmen took large orders and developed projects in a very convenient visual format. This led to the successful development of the business. Subsequently, the studio grew into an advertising and development company, renamed iCube Creative Group, located in the center of Moscow and having about 50 employees.
In 2009, Ilya, together with his partner Dmitry Chistoprudov, organized a photo agency. It was engaged in the sale of advertising photographs of excellent quality.
Public life
In 2012, Ilya Aleksandrovich Varlamov submitted documents to the Omsk City Election Committee for the nomination of his candidacy for the post of mayor of Omsk. Positioning himself as an independent candidate who does not support any political movements, he wanted to gather a close-knit team of like-minded people around him in order to change and improve the city. But he had to leave this venture, since his candidacy gained only 1,500 votes out of the 10,000 put.
More than once he covered gay parades in his blog and lamented that they were forbidden in Russia.
Varlamov’s trips with Putin
In 2010, a young blogger leaves with Russian President Putin on a working trip to St. Petersburg to write a report. The next year he again goes on a trip with the president, this time to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. There was a youth forum. He published his impressions of the trip and the details on his blog.
By the way, Ilya Varlamov has a negative attitude to the fact that he is called a blogger, as he considers himself a journalist.