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Anton Buslov
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Buslov in 2009
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Антон Сергеевич Буслов
4 November 1983 |
| Died | 20 August 2014 (aged 30) |
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(m. 2005; div. 2009)Mariya Nechaeva
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Anton Sergeevich Buslov (November 4, 1983 – August 20, 2014) was a talented Russian astrophysicist. He was also a very popular online writer (blogger), a columnist for The New Times magazine, and an expert on how transportation systems work.
Anton Buslov helped start the non-profit group "Voronezh Citizens for Trams Committee." He also co-founded "City and Transportation," another important group. He was very active in helping cities improve their transport as an expert for the "City 4 People" organization.
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Anton Buslov's Life Story
Anton Buslov was born and grew up in Voronezh, Russia. In 2003, he passed his entry exams for the MEPhI Graduate School of Physics. He earned his specialist degree in 2006, focusing on experimental nuclear physics and space physics.
Later in 2006, he started working on his advanced degree. His research was about the "Control System and Data Computing in Solar Research Project 'Koronas-Foton'." Anton finished his studies in 2009. However, he couldn't complete his final thesis because his health got worse.
Scientific Work
Anton Buslov was a key person in the "Koronas-Foton" solar research project. This project studied the Sun. He led the center that handled all the data for this project. He also helped write several scientific papers about space physics.
Helping Cities and Public Transport
Buslov started the "Voronezh Citizens for Trams Committee." This group worked to save electric trams in Voronezh from being removed. This group later became the bigger "City and Transportation" organization.
In 2004, he created a website called Samaratrans.info. This site was all about public transport in Samara. He also helped design the official website for Samara's transport company. From 2011, he advised the Mayor of Samara on transport issues. He helped with planning city infrastructure, especially for transport.
Buslov also helped change rules so people could take photos in the subway systems of Samara, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, and Nizhny Novgorod. Before, this was not allowed.
Since 2012, he worked closely with "City 4 People." He was an expert on transport and city planning for them. He gave talks about transportation at their events. In 2013, he worked on a project to rebuild Lenin Avenue in Moscow. He also helped with building the North-Western Chord road. He worked with Professor Vukan R. Vuchic from the University of Pennsylvania on this.
Anton Buslov helped create the plans for the updated map of the Moscow subway. He also gave advice on transport for many government, city, public, and business projects.
Writing and Blogging
Buslov wrote regularly for The New Times magazine. In his articles, he shared his personal story about his fight with cancer.
In 2004, Buslov started an online blog on LJ called mymaster. In his blog, he wrote about social issues and suggested ways to fix transport and political problems. He also shared stories about his travels to different cities around the world. He wrote about how these cities were built and how their transport systems worked. He was especially interested in trams, their history, and new technologies for them. His blog also talked a lot about cancer treatment and the challenges people with cancer face. Some of his special articles from the blog were later printed in newspapers and magazines.
His Fight with Cancer
In January 2011, Anton Buslov found out he had a type of cancer called Hodgkin's lymphoma. He first received treatment in Moscow and Samara. When doctors in Russia could not do more, Buslov looked for treatment at the NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital in the United States.
He started asking for donations online through his blog readers. Over 30,000 people donated money. They collected the needed amount in just one week. This was the fastest time money had ever been raised for one person on the Russian internet (Runet). Because of some problems with his treatment, Buslov had to ask his "30,000 friends" for more money. This was also successfully collected. Buslov was able to get treatment and recover at the NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital. During this time, he also helped other cancer patients by giving them support and information.
Anton Buslov passed away on August 20, 2014, in New York City.
Family Life
Anton Buslov's father was an engineer, and his mother was a housewife. He had two siblings, a brother named Dmitri and a sister named Anastasia.
Anton Buslov married for the first time in 2005, but they divorced in 2009. He married again in 2012. He once said that he proposed to his second wife after doctors told him he might only have a year or half a year left to live.
