Chapter V. Grodno, Kaliningrad and the First Websites

He returned to Grodno. Experience and recommendations did their work: three more years of system administration and engineering at the Grodno archive, at the port and in dozens of organizations. There was a lot of good in it, but gradually it started to feel like he was just killing time.

He wanted the sea. The only ticket available led to Kaliningrad: a new country and the Baltic Sea. They did not hire him as a system administrator, the market was full. But at a web studio he sold ready-made websites with rented traffic through cold calls. It turned out to be easy once you knew how to work with search engines. A year later he had a 'Salesman of the Month' certificate.

Then a breakup and a return to Grodno. Twenty-four years old, no diploma, no relationship, and one clear understanding: how to earn money from websites. His mother lent him money for cigarettes; he spent it on domains. He built WIX websites for car-repair shops in all the big cities of Belarus, registered a sole proprietorship, made the calls and rented the sites out. Business took off. That is how Orlov's studio was born.