Vitali Vitaliev
Soviet defector
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Vitali Vitaliev's Degrees
- Bachelors Journalism Moscow State University
- Masters Journalism Moscow State University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Vitali Vitaliev is a Ukrainian-born journalist and writer who has worked in Russia, the United Kingdom, Australia and Ireland. Biography Vitaliev was born in 1954 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He graduated from Kharkiv University in French and English, working as an interpreter and translator before becoming a journalist in 1981. He worked as a special correspondent for Krokodil magazine in Moscow when he appeared as Clive James' 'Moscow Correspondent' on Saturday Night Clive. On 31 January 1990, he and his family 'defected', moving first to London, then taking up residence in Australia. After a few years there, he moved back to the United Kingdom, living in London. He is now back in London again after spending some time in Edinburgh and Dublin. Vitaliev's books were translated from English into German, Japanese, Russian, Italian, Finnish, French, Spanish, Portuguese and some other languages . In June 2018, Vitaliev was appointed Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain and in 2021 - Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund and the RLF Writing Fellow and Teaching Associate at Magdalene & Wolfson Colleges, University of Cambridge. He is also a member of the International Travel Writers Alliance and the National Association of Writers in Education .
Vitali Vitaliev's Published Works
Published Works
- To bit or not to bit (2014) (24)
- By sea to oz [Transport Cruise Ships] (2013) (3)
- Passport to Enclavia: Travels in Search of a European Identity (2010) (2)
- Transport in the Smart city (2016) (2)
- The A to Z of fakes (2012) (2)
- After all: Olympics and the fine art of window-dressing (2012) (2)
- Snapshots of E-stonia (2009) (2)
- Inside the 'Machine for Living' (2015) (2)
- Where do you read yours? [photo competition] (2013) (1)
- VR around the... world (2016) (1)
- After all: Classics of twitterature (2010) (1)
- Book reviews [Review Books] (2015) (1)
- Predictions for 2013 across our seven sectrors [Looking Forward 2013 Predictions] (2012) (1)
- After all: How many engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? (2012) (1)
- Book Reviews - The Debs of Bletchley Park, The Bletchley Girls, Britain's First Space Rocket, New Space Frontiers, The Peripheral (2015) (1)
- Factory of light [Futuristic, sustainable architecture, Lyon] (2014) (1)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Transport - Wandering lost and nostalgic in the world's most liveable city (2020) (1)
- Ukraine, Russian fascism and Houdini geography: a conversation with Vitali Vitaliev (2022) (1)
- After all: The loneliness of the long-distance diner (2013) (1)
- Secret window [virtual reality] (2013) (1)
- After all - talking rubbish (2008) (0)
- After All - A Yule Tale (2015) (0)
- After all - engineering toddlers (2008) (0)
- After All: Migration - Italian 'Bedfordino' community built up brick by brick (2019) (0)
- After all... [network diary] (2008) (0)
- Book Reviews: A New Map of Wonders, Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations, Soonish (2017) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Literature - Cheered up by a Munchausen of the space era (2020) (0)
- Books [2 books reviewed} (2010) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Travel: Islanders show that remoteness breeds resourcefulness (2022) (0)
- After all - Engineered simplicity (2007) (0)
- After All: The mysterious magic of train timetables (2015) (0)
- Competition - Cars.The bangers' final honk (2018) (0)
- After All: Wireless - How the spark gap proved itself mightier than the bomb (2019) (0)
- The nation's pioneer (2007) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Transport: I am not a train - a guided walk inside the Eurotunnel. (2020) (0)
- Gold - Objects: All that glitters . . . (2018) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Travel - From my collection of techno oddities you never knew existed (2021) (0)
- Where do you read yours? [Time Out Competition] (2013) (0)
- After All - Competition: The bookshelf stretching from France to Oz (2016) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Travel Technologies - From 'alienation zone' to the 'secret engineering dream town' (2019) (0)
- After All: E-cycing - Of scraped cheeses, fighting cows and massaged fish (2018) (0)
- Talking rubbish [Time Out - Recycling] (2008) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Travel - Four voices in a campervan (to say nothing of the bark) (2021) (0)
- After all: Deviant railway (2009) (0)
- After all: Playing it by beer (2010) (0)
- Big brother made real [Society] (2008) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Technology - At home in the (almost) unchanged world of 18th-century Russia (2020) (0)
- What's in your shed? (2013) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Hitching a ride in a 'real-life' Time Machine (2021) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Railways - The Soviet version of a driverless vodka train (2020) (0)
- News Briefing: Design and Production - Fastest British bicycle is engineered in Liverpool (2015) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Travel - Of Alphie, Tashi and some helpful engineers on campsites. (2020) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Travel - A Scottish tour triggers memories of an enclosed childhood (2021) (0)
- The wall of terror and deception (2015) (0)
- In Brief: Memoirs (1998) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Planet - No man is an island, but a rock with a lighthouse is! (2021) (0)
- Book Reviews: AI in the Wild, A Series of Fortunate Events, The New Map (2020) (0)
- After All - Foot in Mouth [Time Out Gobbledegook] (2008) (0)
- after all glorious failures (2008) (0)
- Tapping the gene pool (2012) (0)
- After all: Trains, tanks and automobiles, and hearing-aids (2011) (0)
- After All: Paranormal - Dear readers, please do not eat this page! (2018) (0)
- After All: Planned Economy - The black market value of a broken electric light bulb (2017) (0)
- After All: Cityscape - Tower babies, brew kettles and a glass of Semtex (2018) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Ukraine - Ukraine's industrial capital made a new Stalingrad by invaders (2022) (0)
- After all: The Isle of Man and a steam-driven Australian dream (2011) (0)
- After all: A country whose name may cause toothache (2011) (0)
- After All: Timetable - Europe's railway come together in Northamptonshire (2016) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Travel: Crashing out on the island of happy shipwrecks (2022) (0)
- Electricity - Readers Photos: Wires crossed again (2016) (0)
- After All - Railways: A literary viaduct from Turkestan to Siberia (2016) (0)
- After all - Engineer's guide to tax havens (2009) (0)
- After All: Bertha and her little black driving hat (2014) (0)
- After All: Infrastructure - Not just false teeth, tax breaks and letterbox companies (2019) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Book Club - Two Soviet writers go in search of 'the real America' in 1935 (2021) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: What they call the 'facilities' in Welsh, Irish and Hungarian (2021) (0)
- After all: 'The boat of love' that got caught in the fog (2011) (0)
- After all - a.karenina@wrt.net (2009) (0)
- After all: This flying feeling (2010) (0)
- After all: A French wonder of the modern engineering world (2012) (0)
- News briefing [Manchester Conference 'The Biggest of It's Kind] (2013) (0)
- After all: Touching eternity with a helluva read or two (2012) (0)
- After All - Drinks: Cheers to wine and whisky flights of the future (2016) (0)
- After All - Optics: Sharing photos, thoughts and smiles (2016) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: My brave digital lie-buster namesake (2022) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Travel - Expedition or cruise? Either way, the journey was great (2022) (0)
- Sixty years of engineering records (2015) (0)
- After All: Railways - A historic German transport link that remains forever Belgian (2019) (0)
- Innovation Seattle - Secrets of Seattle (2007) (0)
- Book Reviews: Antisocial Media, Fantasyland, Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein (2018) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Travel - History - Timeless observations of a once-bibulous technophile diarist (2022) (0)
- After all: Happy e-smoking (2009) (0)
- Network diary - After all ... (2007) (0)
- After all: Kindling a passion for the irresistible e-reader (2012) (0)
- On board the referendum tram (2014) (0)
- Technology - Interview. Professor of Creative Ignorance (2018) (0)
- After all: A browse through your favourite reference tomes (2012) (0)
- After All: The 'merry men' who used windmills to polish shoes (2021) (0)
- After All: Transport- A Real-Life Caribbean Techno Dream in St Kitts (2017) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Wine - Cheered up by tastings of sparkling Pfizer and dry-white AstraZeneca (2021) (0)
- Reader Feedback - Wiring: Wires Uncrossed (2016) (0)
- After All: Soviet Tech - 'Let's take up guns, children, and join the snipers!' (2017) (0)
- After All: Seasoning - A festive story with a touch of tropical spice (2016) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: A project that tried to stand a town on its head (2022) (0)
- After all: Donning the world cap (2010) (0)
- Life in the old box [UK phone box recycling] (2019) (0)
- After all: Letter from steam corner bivalve, and furnace (2013) (0)
- Old Crows fly to Stockholm (2015) (0)
- The engineer behind a bestseller (2010) (0)
- Engineering - Heritage. Tanks, Graves, Mirrors and Antennas (2020) (0)
- After all: Forgotten art of reading between the airlines (2011) (0)
- After all: The challenge of capturing the unseen (2011) (0)
- After All: USSR - Beware of the allhearing pig's ears hidden in the walls (2017) (0)
- After All: Diary of a twice-disrupted dream train journey (2015) (0)
- Network Diary (After All..., Leafy Screams) (2007) (0)
- The pupils of houdini - after all - [time out escapes] (2008) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Literature - Of the fateful (and sometimes nearly fatal) fatalism of fate (2022) (0)
- After All - Feedback: I asked for your input and you rose to the challenge (2015) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Travel - Reflections of an Incomplete Angler (2022) (0)
- After All: Archaeology - Was Kefalonia the real site of Odysseus' s Ithaca home? (2018) (0)
- After all: At last: full truth about the mystery explosive (2011) (0)
- What lies beneath? [space] (2007) (0)
- After all: Gadets and bird-watching can turn one veggie (2013) (0)
- Pick of the sheds... (2014) (0)
- After all...this flying feeling [Time Out Flights] (2010) (0)
- After all: Mobile monks and modernisation of Mount Athos (2012) (0)
- After All: Railways - The gentle art of refreshing one's life with trains. (2018) (0)
- Book Reviews: Online Afterlives, Analogia, Sealand (2020) (0)
- After All - Transport: A ticket hoarder on a 'ticketless platform' (2016) (0)
- After All: Pest Control - Domestic beasts and how not to find them (2017) (0)
- Relics of the great war [First World War Engineering Heritage] (2014) (0)
- Books (Network Reviews) [four book reviews] (2009) (0)
- How much is Bulgaria (2007) (0)
- Auf wiedersehen set? [Workforce Germany] (2011) (0)
- Time out technophobia - after all... (2008) (0)
- After All: North Sea oil, Chair Brew and a bite of Genievre (2015) (0)
- After all: Hotel Hi, and lows (2009) (0)
- Festival of water (2008) (0)
- After all: Souvlaki-ed by eco-technologies (2009) (0)
- After all - Christmas fillers (2007) (0)
- After all [Time Out Columnist] (2013) (0)
- After all: Trial & terror (2008) (0)
- Book Reviews: Mars Workshop Manual, Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale, Murmur (2018) (0)
- After All - Rail: A Tale of church cars, Samovars and careless engineers (2016) (0)
- After all: Ski-less in the Alps - why I'll never ride another cable car (2012) (0)
- After All - Optics: Losing sleep over Aurora's grade 3 nocturnal dance (2016) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Travel - May you never need the services of a 'Horizontal Travel Agent' (2020) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: History - Tiny chapel shows the spirit that sank a huge cruiser (2022) (0)
- After all - The measure of engineers (2007) (0)
- If you build it, will they come? [Workforce Manufacturing] (2011) (0)
- Beware of flipping mirrors [after all...] (2010) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Railways - The eerie quietness of Berlin's deserted and dimly lit ghost stations. (2020) (0)
- After all: Train stations, armchair legs and hangman's nooses (2011) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Scotland - Innovative and self-sufficient, as sure as Eigg is Eigg (2022) (0)
- After all: Polymaths, polyglots and multi-humans (2012) (0)
- The much-loved knife - [manufacturing victorinox] (2009) (0)
- After All: Viticulture - Cycling and drinking in a beautiful land rich in traditions (2018) (0)
- Book Reviews: Spacefarers, The Alchemy of Us, QualityLand (2020) (0)
- Of doom and boom (2010) (0)
- Case study - Isle of Man: Brexit lessons from a non-EU neighbour (2016) (0)
- After All: Music - How my attempt to play an alphorn ended in embarrassment (2016) (0)
- After All: How do you deconstruct a monument? (2014) (0)
- After all - Everything explained (2008) (0)
- Electricity - Reader photos: The World's Worst Wiring (2016) (0)
- After All: Genology - The 'precision-engineered' wines of Canton Vaud (2019) (0)
- After All - Transport. Climb on board the self-operating 'Shabbat elevator' (2019) (0)
- After All: Olympics - Snow guns versus cannons and rocket launchers (2018) (0)
- My phone phobia - after all... - [time out telephone] (2009) (0)
- After all [boat used for trysts in 1980s USSR] (2011) (0)
- Book reviews [Reviews Books] (2013) (0)
- Book Reviews: Stealth, Land of Wondrous Cold, In Praise of Folly (2020) (0)
- After all...old sparky (2008) (0)
- The much-loved knife [Swiss army knife products] (2009) (0)
- Books - Book reviews -[network reviews] (2009) (0)
- Is e-government good for your health? (2012) (0)
- After all...of foglets and nanobots (2007) (0)
- Book Reviews: Skylab, Cosmism and Enlightenment (2018) (0)
- After all: Nice to meet you, engineer Ivanovich (2013) (0)
- After All: Falling Statues, Named Trains and Quirky Hotels (2015) (0)
- After all - On the (yellow) dot (2008) (0)
- In depth software - shreds of evidence (2007) (0)
- Book Reviews: Beijing Smog, Energy and Civilization, The Red Line (2017) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Phobias - Stand two metres away and wear a mask over your eyes before reading (2020) (0)
- After all: Old gadgets make for an unlikely time machine (2012) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Aviation - Flying adventures of a piece of civilian 'self-loading freight' (2020) (0)
- Return of the dead ringer [after all...] (2009) (0)
- Classics of Twitterature (2010) (0)
- After All: Mastering the technology of dreams (2015) (0)
- After all: Stone by stone (2009) (0)
- After all: User manual for a spoon (2010) (0)
- After all: New year's eve ferry becomes a time machine (2011) (0)
- A to Z of Utopia (2014) (0)
- After All: Travel - Sharing a joke and a hotel room with Inspector Clouseau (2019) (0)
- After All: Cleantech - Shark-tagging as a way of breaking stereotypes (2016) (0)
- Borders - North-South Korea: Zone of fear and hope (2018) (0)
- After all - Meeting of the ends (2008) (0)
- After all: Driving Sir Peter (2010) (0)
- After All: Transport - Amazing revelations of the seemingly useless 'door stoppers' (2018) (0)
- After all: A pinch of old salt (2010) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: History - Only libraries may hold the answers to Russia's cultural barbarism (2022) (0)
- Book Reviews: The Birth of the RAF, Railway Empire, Taming the Sun (2018) (0)
- After all - [time out cleantech] (2009) (0)
- Book Reviews: Team Human, A Bright Future, The Life, Science and Times of Lev Vasilevich Shubnikov (2019) (0)
- Inside the innermost zone (2008) (0)
- After All: Medical Technology - A Brand-New Re-Engineered ME (2017) (0)
- Book Reviews: Beyond the Valley, Britain and the Bomb, This is not Propaganda (2019) (0)
- After all: Prepare yourself for ten top engineering laughs (2012) (0)
- Book Reviews: The Next Billion Users, Future Histories, Manual for Survival (2019) (0)
- Why are Swiss trains always on time? [After All] (2015) (0)
- After all: 'And the winner is' (2013) (0)
- After All: Techno Riddle - A dead electric bulb in a peaked Soviet-style thinking cap (2017) (0)
- After all...logging for you (2009) (0)
- Help us record our tech history (2019) (0)
- Regulars - Columnist. After All: Literature - Russian beginnings of Bulwer-Lytton's Vrilpowered winged race (2023) (0)
- Vinyl vitaliev - [time out after all] (2009) (0)
- After all... [time out computers] (2009) (0)
- After All: Geopolitics. Long live the glorious Space Kingdom of Asgardia! (2019) (0)
- After all: Armchair tourism reaches the end of the line (2011) (0)
- OUR SURVEY SAYS... (2017) (0)
- After All: Heritage: Cobbles, flowers and bric-a-brac among ancient ramparts (2019) (0)
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