●My early childhood was spent with parents-geologists (mum - Galina Ivanovna Bilicheva, father - Dmitry Petrovich Rezvoy) in the mountains of Central Asia. We used to be always on a move, so a tent and a horse became for me a habitual everyday life.
●In 1946 I, nevertheless, was sent to a Moscow school, but I still was spending my summer holidays out in the mountains.
●In 1952 my family moved to Ukraine, to the city of Lvov, but  summer time was still taking me back to Central Asia - to the mountains of Turkestan-Alai and the Pamirs.

● From 1957 to 1960 served in the Soviet Army, in the Navy Air Forces as a machine-gun/radio operator; jumped with a parachute (50 jumps); 2 years practically daily flied with different crews on a jet bomber over the Baltic.

● 1966 - 84 - returning to the world of my early childhood, but already with my own children and wife: to work as a geologist, and then - as a chief of a geological party in Southern Kirghizia.

● 1984 - 92 - back to  Lvov and work at the University with annual expeditions to the Pamirs.

Further - a pensioner, and the most complicated part of life in the CIS of post-perestroika period: travelling to places where I could find a paid job.

I do know about ocean rowing since long ago - my younger brother Ivan was a part of the support-team of Peter Bird during his attempts to row the Pacific from Vladivostok to San Francisco.
In 2001 I was helping my son - Theodore in his preparations for the row from Canary Islands to Barbados; it was then that I caught insuperable desire to set out to ocean - till now unknown to me five sixths of the globe.