While TimR and Team are covering and commenting every official and not official news and snippets, I’d like to tell few words about myself!
My presence on SU is not visible for the moment but I hope to change the situation in the nearest future.
Some people may know me by my occasional comments during last two years under the nickname “svizzera”, some people have seen myself during the IntSaab2010 event at Interlaken…. Let me introduce myself.
My name is Valeriy, I was born in St-Petersburg in 1983 , but when I was 1 year old, my family moved to Helsinki, after 4 years we moved to Moscow, than in Geneva, than back to Moscow where I’m living now!
I’m married to Marina, who’s tolerating my passion about Saabs with great patience. Every workday I wear a suit with a tie and turn into a employee of structured finance department in a bank.
My Saab story began at 2008 when my 9-3 SportCombi finally arrived in Moscow and I turned from a “Saab-Theorist” to “Saab-Practiciant”. It is my second car, the first was a Lada (as I’m Russian 
. My wife drives a Nissan Primera. I also have a vintage 80MY Lada in the garage.
Since 2008 I’ve made two TransEuroTrips on board of my Saab (including Trollhattan and StGallen), attended the IntSaab 2010 event at Interlaken, made an extreme cold autorally Moscow-Stockholm in January’10.
As my car is my passion, I try to find every possible way to pamper it. Hirsch Performance HQ at StGallen was visited twice (I hope there is more to come!!), where with Manfred’s and Marcel’s help some goodies were installed.
I also help to run one of the Russian Saab forums. In Moscow I organized the photosession at Domodedovo Airport and Saab Support Convoy!
I would like to apologize for my poor English in my posts – I will do my best!
See you at SU pages and at the International Saab Meeting in Finland!!!
