They’re two big wave surfers, and they hail from Russia. The previous sentence doesn’t seem to make sense, but they’re in Nazaré, Portugal, to prove that our preconceptions are wrong. Andrei “Dolphin” Ovchinnikov and Andrey Karr Boldyrev have the looks of a surfer. Their hairstyle, their clothes, and their eyes on the ocean are not different from a mate with an Aussie accent, or a dude with a Californian surf speech. The surf duo has always wanted to surf giant waves. And when the right moment arrived, they packed their bags and flew all the way from the cold to the temperate climate of Western Europe.

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How did two Russians end up surfing Nazaré?

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