Ivan Kuznetsov — outdoor journalist, editor and writer, co-founder of Panoramica creative studio in the Italian Alps.
— Because of my work as a travel journalist and my travels, I am the author and co-author of more than ten books. However, they have yet to be published. Find the first editions in the Books section.
Before this, in Russian language, I have published two books: a 150-page one-place ecological travelogue “The mountain keeper. A year in the Dolomites, Italy” and “I’m arriving. How to travel, live in the world and be your true self” — the first-ever collection of 40 interviews with 55 well-known Russian-speaking travelers, including myself.
For both books, I organized crowdfunding campaigns that raised 1,000+ euros from 110+ sponsors in total. Then I additionally officially sold 100+ copies through Ridero publishing platform and distributed 500+ free copies with hundreds of positive reviews.
I also participated in five literary side-projects, the largest of which is an abstract for the cover of a fellow travel writer’s debut travelogue “Everything is possible” published by Eksmo, the largest publisher of books of all genres in Russia with 1.4 million monthly visitors on its site. Upon release, it immediately became a bestseller: the author is one of the country’s most famous bloggers with 20,000+ followers.
Other four projects include:
• Editing the meteorological textbook for wind sports and outdoors with 100+ lessons — an archive of a newsletter with over 100,000 people.
• An idea and structure of a book about living in an ecovillage by Alexander Ivanov, a published author of “Outside the Сity” (Treemedia, 2019).
• The first-ever translation of one of the Dolomites legends to Russian as a fragment of my book “The mountain keeper”.
• An updating of the free PDF guidebooks to Italy and Finland for Arrivo travel media with 1.5 million visitors at its peak in 2015.
To write some books and journalistic publications, I took part in three creative residences: 1) Villa Sarkia of the Nuoren Voiman Liitto, the oldest literary association in Helsinki, in Sysma, Lahti sub-region, Päijät-Häme, 2016; 2) Santa Maria Residential Arts Center of the Soropila project of the Basque Cultural Institute in Hélette, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, in 2014; and 3) Dolomiti Hub, the cultural, social and work space in Fonzaso, Belluno, Veneto, Italy, in 2023.
I’m always interested in helping others with creating and publishing books. Find out more about it in the Services section.
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