There are people who in spite of creating a strange aura around you: beside them you feel confident and protected, and the most important things in life explain them simply, of course, without any extra words. It is such an aura around Tanya Kovaliova – a wise and strong woman who loves life and rocks

“In my youth my soul lay in medicine, I felt in my place. But it turned out that it was a stage. When I tried something else, I realized that I had passed through this stage. Yes, medicine is mine, but this period has passed, and now something else. Now in medicine, it does not pull, perhaps from what I already know, what is it ”
“When he worked in resuscitation, the main thing was clear: you need to appreciate what you have. Woke up in the morning, and it’s fine. This same intensive care also taught. To me, the work in general has taught a lot, and very similar to rock climbing: and there you are on the verge, and here you are on the verge. There it is clear: human life is fragile – it’s a case, but a little depends on you. Not that I was a fatalist and believed in fate. Of course, a lot depends on me in my life, but there are things that you can not foresee, and resuscitation is very clearly demonstrating it. ”
“We in Zhytomyr have long developed rock climbing. We have a small city, there are few people who climb. Sergei (husband of Tatyana – pr.red.) punched the tracks, held competitions. He held the Ukrainian championship here at the stands in the park, where the plane is. People gathered for us. And you’re doing everything, doing it, waiting for people to be interested, and in Zhytomyr some kind of traffic will start! And she is not … And you do, do, do … And there is no movement. And “at the same place” … And at some time, we decided to try to do it in Crimea. Let’s go, started to do, the shop opened. And there they stayed eleven years. And the people began to go exactly to the place we wanted to develop. What’s interesting: a small place, in the local season from late May to August? In August, there is nobody else. Thanks to the climbing season, the season has expanded: the New Year, the May holidays. And when we traveled from Crimea in the fourteenth year, the local people were not so happy»
“For ten years we have been promoting climbing in the Crimea. They developed a place, provided information, punched rocks, and described them. There was Sergey  did bouldering engaged there, this is another kind of climbing – by stones. He issued gadgets. Really huge work was carried out. And take it to leave and go … It certainly will not disappear, people will climb still will be, but we again have to start everything from scratch»
“It is difficult to develop rock climbing: people have to understand what they are spending money on. And plus advertising should be, this should be invested. And I’m interested in developing rock climbing just because I just love to do it. But all of us have to feed someone.. It is clear that “on a voluntary basis” does not all come out»
“About the Zhytomyr climbers know and go to us both on the Archive and on the Pie (for example, the names of the arrays). Certainly, rock climbing is just not so much people involved. And they have a dressing-up radio: someone has traveled and told others. When we broke a new route, my husband taught on “rock climbing” forums for the interested. It is clear that people are uninteresting to climb in one and the same place. It is interesting something new! And so when it appears, the people immediately reach the friendly chain. Arrived, tried, and appreciated: “This is worthy, but not so much”
“I love everything a lot: needlework, reading, traveling. I not only love climbing the rocks, I go to hikes a lot. Elbrus is scheduled this year. Earlier he loved cooking, now no. It’s on the rocks is displayed: you gain a lot of weight, and then climb hard (Laughs) When children are small, you want or not, and you cook. And when the children grew up, you can afford not to cook. Then once and immediately you come to the form. My husband has an ascetic, with him simply: he would live in the tent. He is calm in everything. Well, ok. Let’s eat apples »
“They say climbing is a” cheap “sport. Let’s be clear: are there ones that can be considered “cheap”? Even to just get up and run, sneakers are needed. If you just run on asphalt paths – this is not a sport. Any kind of sports requires investment. In me, this approach is as follows: this is something that I really enjoy, and for pleasure we usually pay. Here you invest one time, you have what you need, and that is, you get a good weapon and get pleasure»
“I love children very much. I do not have strange children – I have all my own. I cannot say: “What is the difference to me – this is someone else’s child”
“A typical portrait liked climbing? It’s sluggish, long, laconic. And human features – good, reliable, because without it at all in any way. Because if you trust a person with your insurance, this should be a person who does not say: “Well, I’m tired, and you as you want”
“I’m doing rock climbing from my youth. His 18th birthday was noticed already in the Crimea, on the rocks. Then they went with carols and little children. And now he’s a son of 22, and he looks at my photos of a child on the rocks and remembers that in that city once lost the toy: “Oh, I’m this I know this gap – Batman has fallen there. Someone can now find it “(Laughs)”
“In a questionnaire there was a question:” What animal do you associate with yourself? «I immediately thought the monkey came. I was born in the year of the Monkey (Laughs) and in the past life, probably, was a beast. In general, I do not think about it, it is easier to look at some things. Difficulties, difficulties … I have everything simple”
Translated by Aliona Matushevich