liva. i am 35 🎉 Happy Birthday, Alina!

05.11.1991 → 05.11.2026

liva. i am

35. in tune with myself. from Selydove. the party. going places. so loved.

Happy 35th birthday, Alina Liventsova 🎉

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One year agoInstagram · 05.11.2025

i amin tune with myself

35and counting

Alina in the autumn forest, wrapped in a navy coat

“34 and I'm in tune with myself. It's so comfortable to be next to myself — I'm glad to spend my life in my own company.”

— @liva.i.am· last birthday

A year later, everyone around you agrees: your company is the best company. At 35, the whole world is in tune with you.

Origin story48.15° N · 37.30° E

i amfrom Selydove

As the crow fliesSame hometown → same office

Same small town. Different streets. Never met.

Selydove is the kind of mining town where everybody supposedly knows everybody. Somehow, two people grew up there and never once crossed paths.

It took 554 kilometres, the city of Kyiv and one company called Banza for them to finally meet — and discover, somewhere between a brief and a corporate party, that they were zemliaky: from the very same place.

Alina, in her own words, calls Selydove “the queen of decadence — a millennial's paradise.” We call it the place that made you.

Alina leaning on a Lada in a Selydove yard — Selydove colour, original edition

Alina with two friends taking a selfie — Selydove Mining College graduates — on tour

Black and white photo of Alina by an old tree — Nostalgia, served in black & white

Selydove is Ukraine. One day we'll walk those streets again. 💙💛

The Banza eraBrand manager · party legend

i amthe party

138people at the pyjama party in the Carpathians — skis, a hot tub, and songs nobody will forget
1sleeper train of colleagues heading for the mountains
∞costume parties, dances to Meladze and gum-flashing smiles

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“Almost a year as brand manager at Banza — and my work brings me wild joy.”Alina, 2021. Officially: brand manager. Unofficially: minister of corporate parties. And the reason a certain fellow Selydove-ite now has a friend for life.

PassportHer own captions, translated

i amgoing places

WAWWarszawa
entry

Warsaw

“Beautiful like Podil. Tasty like Arsenalna. But one of a kind.”

52.23° N · 21.01° E

Alina kicking up a leg in front of Big Ben

LDNUnited
Kingdom

London

“British films are so deep in me, it feels like I never left.”

51.50° N · 0.12° W

LISPortugal
entry

Lisbon

“Obrigado, senhoras e senhores. Portugal is an emotion.”

38.72° N · 9.14° W

ENDof Europe
Cabo da Roca

Cabo da Roca

“The westernmost point of Europe.” Naturally, she went.

38.78° N · 9.50° W

BERDeutschland
entry

Berlin

“Berlin lit me up 🔥 Historic and panel-block. So mine, so comfy.”

52.52° N · 13.40° E

Alina in a zebra dress walking on a Sicilian beach

SICItalia
entry

Sicily

“Syracuse means agreeing to meet sometime after lunch.”

37.07° N · 15.29° E

Alina in an embroidered blouse taking a mirror selfie

KYIVhome
sweet home

Kyiv

“May. Kyiv — I love you again 🩵”

50.45° N · 30.52° E

ESPTossa
de Mar

Tossa de Mar

“A blue paradise, so to speak.” Mañana to everyone, chicos.

41.72° N · 2.93° E

Next stamp

Age 35:
anywhere.

The passport is open. Pick the next city.

Field guideTap or hover a card to flip

i ama whole encyclopedia

Platon

n. — son, chief photographer

Entry №1

Big, grown-up and handsome. Takes the best photos of mom. She is still surprised to have a kid at all — let alone a grown-up one.

Draniki

n. pl. — potato pancakes; a weakness

Entry №2

Documented addiction. Has requested rehab from draniki and a chanterelle compress for the whole woman. Request denied: enjoy.

Yellow house

n. — future address

Entry №3

Comes with a cow, a dog and mushrooms for breakfast, lunch and dinner. A yellow house is not for sadness.

Trees of Kyiv

n. pl. — an ongoing project

Entry №4

Mission statement: not a single tree in Kyiv left un-hugged. Progress: impressive.

Forshmak

n. — herring pâté; an acquired taste

Entry №5

Loved, by her own estimate, only by me and 80-year-old Jewish grandmas. An exclusive club.

Costume party

n. — natural habitat

Entry №6

Costume parties are totally my thing. Also dancing to Meladze and flashing her gums with every smile.

Royal luxury

adj. + n. — career plan B

Entry №7

Palaces, gold tableware, ten-kilo gowns, half-metre hairdos. Looks like a job for me.

Alina floating on an inflatable ring in a lake

Swimming

v. — solved, creatively

Entry №8

I stopped fighting swimming and bought a ring. Now I'm in the middle of the lake, no effort at all. Who won now?

8 entries · volume 35 · always being updated

35 candlesClose your eyes first

i ammaking a wish

happy birthday, Liva

35 years · 35 wishesDeal yourself a few

i amwished everything

35wishes inside

Tap “Draw a wish” — every card is for you.

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A letter · Kyiv · 05.11.2026

Dear Alina,

Funny thing about Selydove: it's small enough that everyone supposedly knows everyone — and yet we managed to grow up there without ever crossing paths. It took Kyiv, a company called Banza and a few very loud corporate parties for two kids from the same mining town to finally meet.

I'm really glad we did.

You're the rare person who can turn a corporate party into a legend, a train ride into a festival and an ordinary Tuesday into a story worth posting. You travel like you mean it, you write captions like a novelist, you love Platon like nobody else — and you're genuinely comfortable in your own company, which might be the coolest superpower of all.

So here's to 35: more cities and more sea, draniki without the guilt, a yellow house with a cow somewhere in the future, and many more reasons to dance to Meladze. And peace — for you, for Kyiv, for Selydove.

Happy birthday, zemliachka — that's “fellow townswoman”, Selydove edition. 🩵💛

— Max

P.S. Every photo here is borrowed from @liva.i.am. Credits go to the photographer-in-chief, Platon.

happybirthdayalina

liva. i am 35. And it looks great on you.

For Alina,
with love.

liva. i am

i amin tune with myself

i amfrom Selydove

i amthe party