Before the Lights - Katya Dolgova's author's blog about life, war and little absurdityWebsite dolampochki. comis like a window into someone’s head, where everything is mix...
Website dolampochki. comis like a window into someone’s head, where everything is mixed up: memories from childhood, insomnia amid the war, strange conversations with neighbors about music, and even a panicky fear of an X-ray of the neck. There is no official structure, no we make the best service or accessible marketplace. A person simply lives here - Katya Dolgova - and tells what she saw, felt, and experienced.
She writes about the ordinary, but at the same time strangely important. About how, a year after aliyah, she walked around Jerusalem with a paper map and Red Hot Chili Peppers in her headphones. How later I came across the fact that people want to hear the same music in order to be together. And also about how someone threw a party in an apartment, turning it into a party guest house full of punks, socks and alcohol, and then suddenly realized that he didn’t want to drink anymore. This is how life is, without filters, without drama, but with a slight trembling inside.
The theme here is simple, but deep: life beyond politics, analytics and military plans. The author's position does not sound like we are against this or this is the correct answer. No. Here everything is much closer to the human condition. When the war is no longer news, but a background, when every day is a choice: to continue to live, read, argue, laugh, cry. Or disconnect. She simply tells how she lives. How ashamed she was to pass by people who were trying to find their love through common songs. How Denis, the chosen one from the family, is offended that it is difficult to find a girl who knows the same music as him. So what should I do? Walk around with a metal detector?
Interesting, right? Yes, because it's not about how to survive. This is about how to remain yourself while the world around you changes. In the articles you can read about conspiracy theories, enlightenment and shit - well, it seems absurd, but if you read, you understand: this is about how people look for meaning where there is none. About how we are all on the edge, but sometimes we even laugh.
She is a front end developer. That is, a person who makes interfaces that users see. But at the same time, her blog is almost the opposite of technical accuracy. There is no logic in the code, but there is a logic of feelings. There is a memory of the summer exams of 1974, when the drawing course at the Polytechnic was one of the most important events. When they were waiting for results, and the days dragged on like an eternity. And then - lists. And joy. Received. It's that simple.
It is impossible not to note that the lyrics are full of strange details: the remix of 18 to me is already in English, American fight combinations, a video call with punks in the background. Nothing is random.Each phrase is like a piece of a mosaic, from which a picture of a person living between two worlds is gradually formed: his inner world and what is happening around him.
Sometimes it seems that all this is too personal. It's too uneven. The texts are read not like an article, but like a conversation. It’s like someone reading their notes out loud, forgetting about punctuation, missing commas, but not losing their thoughts. This is fine. That's how it should be. Because a real story is not a perfect text. This is the voice.
An interesting point: she writes that she wanted to publish these notes after the war. And then he says: I don’t know if it’s possible to shout about this anymore. What do you mean - already? Maybe the war isn't over yet. Or, on the contrary, something new has already begun anyway. New reality. Where people stop counting who is right and who is wrong. They are just trying to live.
Texts do not look like articles from a newspaper. They look more like a notebook with incomprehensible notes. But this is what makes them unique. There are natural errors here: missing commas, repeating the same idea several times, random transitions between topics. This is not a bug. This is a feature. This is how the head of a person lives, who has a lot of things inside.
Sometimes it seems that the author herself is not sure where she is leading the reader. Either she talks about monuments for teachers, then about X-rays of the neck, then about the boy who bought whiskey and refused to fly to America. Why? Because what is important is not the logical connection, but the emotional one. Everything is connected through feeling - anxiety, laughter, pain, hope.
This is Katya Dolgova’s author’s project - a blog about the life of an ordinary person against the backdrop of war, which talks about small absurdities, memories, music, family and internal experiences without politics and analytics.
About how to live when everything around you is changing. About childhood, college, love, conspiracy theories, music, war, and even how to argue with your son over remixes.
Katya Dolgova is a front-end developer, apparently living in Israel, but with roots in Khabarovsk.She takes notes for herself, but publishes them because she thinks: maybe someone will be familiar.
Because this is an unedited article. This is a living narrative, full of mistakes, repetitions and natural pauses. This is how people really think and write.
Yes, if by real we mean something that reflects a person’s reality, and not just a format. There are no templates here, just a personal voice.
Screenshot of the main page of dolampochki.com, taken on 26.07.2026
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