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As many, I first "met" Vladimir on Usenet. On soc.culture.soviet to be exact.

After several trips to the mountains, we became friends. He had a lot of friends... Vladimir and Irina met in the mountains too.

When love moved him from Toronto to Boston and his web-sites needed a new home I, on behalf of Video Collage, whose servers and network I administer, invited him to our web-server, where BlackAlpinist.com now resides.

May be you need to be a computer geek to understand this, but seeing the user smirnov owned processes constantly popping up in the top(1) output, gives very sad yet encouraging feelings. May be, part of his spirit is still alive in there -- processing his numerous mailing lists and web-forms?