Masha grew up in the industrial district of . Her grandparents told her stories of Baba Yaga and Koschei while she scribbled in the margins of schoolbooks. At age twelve, she discovered a battered Amiga 500 in a second‑hand shop and began coding simple animations. Her adolescent rebellion manifested in zine‑culture , where she mixed hand‑drawn illustrations with cut‑and‑paste collages of Soviet propaganda posters.
Masha grew up in the industrial district of . Her grandparents told her stories of Baba Yaga and Koschei while she scribbled in the margins of schoolbooks. At age twelve, she discovered a battered Amiga 500 in a second‑hand shop and began coding simple animations. Her adolescent rebellion manifested in zine‑culture , where she mixed hand‑drawn illustrations with cut‑and‑paste collages of Soviet propaganda posters.