Employee Spotlight
homeland: SIBERIA
September 2013
marco
cucca
FAVOURITE ANIMAL: Turtles,
due to their hardwork and
supersocial
skills.
FAVOURITE COLOR: Red and
Blue, colours of Cagliari.
HOLIDAYS: Dreaming to reach
N o r t h
K o r e a
WEIRDEST FOOD: Important
and typical Sardinian cheese
with
the
worms.
WHAT‘S IN YOUR CD PLAYER
RIGHT NOW?: ALL EYEZ ON
ME by 2pac and Italian
v i n t a g e
h i t s .
FIRST CONCERT YOU EVER
ATTENDED:
Gianni
Drudi,
understimated Italian
folk
talent but also MANU CHAO was
u n f o r g e t t a b l e .
WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE
WHEN YOU GREW UP? I
wanted to be a street artist.
ONE
THING
THAT
YOU
WEREN'T TOLD WHEN YOU
WERE A TEENAGER, THAT
YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE
HEARD?
That Santa Claus doesn‘t exist.
Discovered
too
late!
IF YOU COULD SPEND 15
MINUTES WITH ANY LIVING
PERSON, WHO WOULD IT BE?
15 minutes or maybe more with
Scarlett
Johansonn
PET PEEVE: Definetly,
bats!
WHERE
DO
YOU
SEE
YOURSELF IN TEN YEARS?
In 10 years, but I hope earlier,
Team Leader in Shanghai.
S
iberia is also the homeland of our colleague
Robert Steinert, who moved to Germany when he
was still a child. Pablo Fanjul Mori spoke with him
a bit about his mother land.
Where do you originally come from?
I was born in Bratsk, a small but crucial town for the
industry, located close to the river Angara and around
500km above the border to Mongolia. Due to its location,
it has one of the biggest hydro-electric power stations and
an important aluminium plant, where my grandfather used
to work.
When and why did you move away from your homeland?
I moved with my parents in 1995, when I was around 9
years old. We moved 3 years after my grandparents left to
Germany. Basically my parents wanted to follow them.
– How often do you go back?
Since I moved, I‘ve been to Siberia once, though not in the
city I was born in.
– Tell us about any weird habits and traditions
It will support the one or the other cliché, but it’s common
to gather with friends, neighbours and/or family to eat and
drink together.
– What is the easiest way to get in or out of Siberia?
If you prefer to travel without taking a flight, you should take
several months of time, as the distances in Siberia and Russia
in general are not comparable with almost any other
country.
mustmust– List some must-see, must-do
- Taiga: a no-man‘s-land of raw and untouched nature in
the coldest part of the world
- The Baikal lake: the deepest and oldest lake on the planet
is the largest existing freshwater reservoir
- A typical Siberian food is a type of meat-dumplings, that
can be served with butter and crème fraiche.
Located in a massive territory that extends from the Ural
Mountains up to the Pacific Ocean in the east, Siberia (in
Russian, ????? ??) is a huge piece of land of 13.1 million
square kilometres that makes up about 77% of Russia's
territory.
Its 40 million people, just 28% of Russia's population, live in
this vast area, that also extends from the Arctic Ocean, in
the north, to its national borders with Kazakhstan,
Mongolia and China in the south.