We live in Seattle, WA and are originally from Irkutsk, Russia and Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. We are alumni of Novosibirsk State University, Utah State University, and Carnegie Mellon University. Elena is Assistant Professor at Department of Statistics in University of Washington, Pavel is Affiliate Assistant Professor at Electrical Engineering Department in University of Washington and engineer at Intermec Technologies. Daniel is preschooler, and Ostap is a house cat.