STRANNIK gives an insight into the everyday life of a homeless 46-year-old martial artist in Russia - a country where millions of people live on the street. Four days of conversations about his dreams, ideas and memories became this documentary short-comic. In fall 2015 the author Anna Rakhmanko and the illustrator Mikkel Sommer heard about Vyaches-lav, better known as Ali Baba in the ring, for the first time. A few weeks later they met in a café in Moscow where Vyacheslav told them about his life and how it is when all you own fits into a plastic bag. A story about a life that is framed by the stairways of suburban apartment buildings, the noisy fast-food restaurants, the cheap movie theaters, the warm metro, and the endless fights. The three of them spent a few intense days together in Moscow before travelling to a closed off military town in the south of Russia where Ali Baba had his next fight.

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was born in 1988 and grew up in Siberia. She has studied in St. Petersburg, Paris and Berlin and now works as journalist and photographer. She works with refugees and on various international projects.