Infernal Hails! My name is Pavel Minaev (Russian: Павел Минаев). I was born in 1985 in the USSR in the city of Tambov, which is now a part of Russia. I presently live in North Bend, WA, and work at Microsoft. If you want to know what my nickname means, see here - but be warned, it's on a rather technical side.

I'm not focusing on anything in particular, but so far areas of my minor contributions were articles related to WW2 firearms, Middle-earth, and history of Russia and Soviet Union. If you have any questions, or just want to discuss anything Wikipedia-related, feel free to contact me by any means listed in the infobox on the right (or just use my talk page). I prefer XMPP/Jabber over everything else, though, and will reply most swiftly if you contact me that way.