Anton Buslov#Public activities

Anton Buslov was born and raised in Voronezh. In February 2003, he successfully passed entry exams to the MEPhI Graduate School of Physics. In February 2006, he obtained Specialist degree with the Department of Experimental Nuclear Physics and Theoretical Physics and Cosmophysics. In May 2006, he entered the Post-Graduate School under the Department of Experimental and Theoretic Physics, and started working on his thesis, "Control System and Data Computing in Solar Research Project 'Koronas-Foton'".{{cite web |url=http://mymaster.livejournal.com/391990.html |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20150304192014/http://mymaster.livejournal.com/391990.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 March 2015 |title=Autobiographic notes }}

In 2009, Anton Buslov graduated from the Post-Graduate School. He was not able to finish the thesis because of his deteriorating health.

Buslov was one of the developers of the solar research project "Koronas-Foton", he also headed the project's Center of Data Computing, Storing of Information and Information Accumulation. As a co-author, he published several works on space physics.[http://stp.cosmos.ru/uploads/media/%D0%9F%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%83_%D0%9A%D0%9E%D0%A0%D0%9E%D0%9D%D0%90%D0%A1-%D0%A4%D0%9E%D0%A2%D0%9E%D0%9D_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B44_5-9-2012.doc List of publications of the results of "Koronas-Foton" project (doc)]

Buslov founded NGO "Voronezh Citizens for Trams Committee",{{cite web|url=http://vrntram.org/index.php?p=conf251108|title=Voronezh Citizens for Trams|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130929013400/http://vrntram.org/index.php?p=conf251108|archivedate=29 September 2013}} which engaged in saving electric transport in Voronezh from destruction.{{cite web|url=http://tram.radio-msu.net/index.php?p=1allnews_old2|title=Records of the NGO|access-date=5 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016192226/http://tram.radio-msu.net/index.php?p=1allnews_old2|archive-date=16 October 2014|url-status=dead}} This NGO has become the basis for the future inter-regional NGO "City and Transportation".

In 2004, he created Samaratrans.info web-portal,{{cite web|url=http://www.samaratrans.info/wiki/index.php/%D0%A3%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA:Buslov_Anton|title=Author page of samaratrans.info}} dedicated to the public transport in Samara. Buslov participated in the development of the official website of the Samara transport operator.[http://tosamara.ru/en/about/ Samara Transport Operator] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170615185949/http://tosamara.ru/en/about/ |date=15 June 2017 }}, "About" Starting from 2011 he consulted the Mayor of Samara{{cite web |url=http://www.novayasamara.ru/content/%D1%87%D1%83%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE-%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B0-%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D1%8C%D1%8E-%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0-%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%8F-%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C |title=Anton Buslov's interview. First part |publisher= Novaya Gazeta v Povolzhye}} as a transportation expert, whose area of expertise was infrastructure planning and particularly, the transport infrastructure.

Buslov successfully pushed for abolition of laws restricting photography taking in subway systems of Samara, Kazan, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod.{{cite web|url=http://ural.kp.ru/online/news/892674/|title=Московский блогер снял запрет на фотосъемку в екатеринбургском метро|author=ЗАО ИД «Комсомольская правда»|work=ЗАО ИД «Комсомольская правда»|date=16 May 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nr2.ru/ekb/331621.html|title=RIA New Region Yekaterinburg}}{{cite web|url=http://mymaster.livejournal.com/240771.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130923114307/http://mymaster.livejournal.com/240771.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-09-23 |title=Nizhny Novgorod: you can film video in the metro }}

Since 2012 he has been actively cooperating with "City 4 People" as an expert on transport and urban planning. At the exhibition of "City 4 People" he delivered a series of lectures on transportation.[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeGNpy7RKkc17sYifybQOnYpkjRcmvAUu Transport lectures], City 4 People Youtube channel

In 2013, Buslov participated in the project of reconstruction of Lenin Avenue and construction of the North-Western Chord together with Vukan R. Vuchic,{{cite web|url=http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~vuchic/|title=Homepage for Vukan Vuchic}} professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Anton Buslov is one of the authors of the tender documents for the updated map of Moscow metro.{{cite web|url=http://izvestia.ru/news/538402|title=На схему столичного метро могут вернуть Москву-реку|author=Анна Семенова|author2=Маргарита Верховская|work=Известия}} He consulted on transportation issues for numerous state, municipal, public and commercial projects.

Buslov was a regular columnist in The New Times magazine,{{cite web|url=http://newtimes.ru/authors/detail/59829/|title=Publications in The New Times}} where he transcribed the history of his struggle with cancer.

In 2004, Buslov started a blog in LJ under the name [http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20121227161651/http%3A//mymaster.livejournal.com/ mymaster], in which he touched upon social issues, offered solutions to commuting and political problems, described his travels to various cities all over the world and shared his observations about their structures and transportation systems. His particular interest laid with the trams, the history of their creation and advanced technologies for development of new models. Additionally, the blog provided an extensive coverage of cancer treatment and problems faced by people with cancer.

Certain specialized articles from the blog have been republished at times in print media.{{cite web|url=http://www.novayasamara.ru/search/node/%D0%91%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%20%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD?page=1|title=Publications at "Novaya Gazeta"}}

In January 2011, Anton Buslov was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. He was first treated at the Cancer Research Center (Moscow) and the Samara Regional Clinical Oncology Center. Having exhausted the possibilities of treatment in Russia, Buslov sought for an opportunity to continue treatment at the NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital, and started fundraising on the Internet through the readers of his blog.{{cite web |url=http://mymaster.livejournal.com/321579.html |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20150714092528/http://mymaster.livejournal.com/321579.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 July 2015 |title=Fundraising for Treatment }}{{cite web|url=http://samara.kp.ru/daily/25979/2913167/|title=Пусть Антон Буслов поживет подольше|author=ЗАО ИД «Комсомольская правда»|work=ЗАО ИД «Комсомольская правда»|date=6 November 2012}} Over 30,000 people donated and the required amount was collected within a week,{{cite web|url=http://bloknot-voronezh.ru/novosti/21143|title=Founder of NGO "Voronezh Citizens for Trams Committee" collects 4,5 million rubles for cancer treatment|access-date=5 October 2013|archive-date=29 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029191959/http://bloknot-voronezh.ru/novosti/21143|url-status=dead}} which became the fastest fundraising for an individual in Runet. Due to certain complications in the treatment, Buslov had to request his "30,000 friends"{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/mymaster4life/|title=Facebook group dedicated to helping Anton Buslov|via=Facebook}} for additional funds for the treatment, which have also been successfully collected. Buslov was able to go through treatment and rehabilitation in the NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital, providing moral and informational support to cancer patients in the process.{{cite web|url=http://www.psychologies.ru/wellbeing/health/_article/anton-buslov/|title=Interview to "Psychologies" newspaper|access-date=5 October 2013|archive-date=29 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140129201001/http://www.psychologies.ru/wellbeing/health/_article/anton-buslov/|url-status=dead}}

He died on 20 August 2014 in New York City.[http://www.newtimes.ru/articles/detail/86168 Anton Buslov Left Us] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821064703/http://www.newtimes.ru/articles/detail/86168 |date=21 August 2014 }} // The New Times, 20.08.2014

Buslov's father was an engineer, and his mother was a housewife. He had two siblings: a brother, Dmitri, and a sister, Anastasia.

Anton Buslov married for the first time in 2005, but divorced in 2009. His second marriage was in 2012: "When I proposed to my girlfriend, it was not after I was diagnosed with cancer, but right after the doctors told me that I have only a year or half a year left".{{cite web|url=http://thenewtimes.ru/articles/detail/64920/|title=The New Times: Cancer or No Cancer, What Is the Difference Anyway?|access-date=5 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927233103/http://thenewtimes.ru/articles/detail/64920/|archive-date=27 September 2013|url-status=dead}}

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