Andrei Vazyanau is lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, European Humanities University, Vilnius. He holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Regensburg (Germany). He did his urban ethnographic fieldwork in Donbas, Ukraine, in 2011–2013, Romania, 2015–2016, and Belarus, 2018–2021. His recent academic publications include ‘Post-Soviet Soundscapes of Mobility: Notes on the Evolution of the Acoustic Profile of Privacy’ (in: Topos 1/2018), and ‘Solution into problem: Ukrainian Marshrutka and Romanian maxi-taxi at the fall of planning paradigms after 1990’ (in: The Journal of Transport History 39 (1): 25–40. 2018).