Russian travel writer Viktor Pinchuk recounts Southeast Asia expedition in Sevastopol, Crimea

May 1, 2023

On April 24, Russian Wikinews attended a talk by Russian travel writer Viktor Pinchuk in, Crimea on his 2012–2013 expedition to Southeast Asia.

Pinchuk described stops in Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Hong Kong, China, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand, during which he practiced hobo tourism.

"In the recent past, a few years before the realization of the plan, a trip to Papua New Guinea seemed to me a pipe dream. From now on, the segment of the to  route has been completed; [I] managed to visit the province of, rarely visited by foreigners, where the natives [had] never seen Russians. The results of [this] solitary expedition, [the] nature of which can be defined as a [sic] journalistic research [Pinchuk was then employed by the newspaper Republic of Crimea]: a book, two dozen articles and extensive photographic material. But [the] main trophy: knowledge that I intend to share," Pinchuk said.

He also took questions from the audience.

The talk was part of a (RGO) event in the Konstantinovskaya Battery museum, with local secondary students among those in attendance.

Vladimir Vorobyov, chair of the local RGO branch, introduced Pinchuk: