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Editor Michael Idov
Art direction and layout Ilya Baronshin, Anna Makarova
Special projects editor Asya Dubrovskaya
Arts editor Marat Guelman
Managing editor Andrew Biliter
Advertising manager Nora Liddell
Prepress Anna Makarova
Editorial assistant Maria Vapnitchnaia

E D I T O R I A L B O A R D
Alexander Besputin Alexandre Gertsman Andrew Paulson
Marat Guelman Ilya Merenzon Michael Thompson

T E x T S
Nick Abadzis, Andrew Biliter, Leonid Bershidsky, Marat and Julia Guelman, Michael Idov,
Lily Idov, Julia Ioffe, Boris Kachka, Irina Kirilenko, Paul Lembersky, Valerie Stivers-Isakova,
Micha Rinkus, Daria Vaisman, Maria Vapnitchnaia, Sergei Verkligen
P h O T O S
Art. Lebedev Studio, The Blue Noses, Asya Dubrovskaya, Dymov Ceramic, Lily Idov,
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NASA, Open Design, PG Group, Lena Sarapultseva, Shutterstock, Julia Vishnevetskaya,
Dasha Yastrebova, 44100.com
I L L U S T R A T I O N S
Nich Abadzis, Ostengruppe, Alexander Kosolapov, PG Group.
Special thanks to Cathy Kruchko, Dima Barbanel and Masha Zayakina
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