Boris Mosafir

Boris Mosafir, died 2026, was a Russian nawashi in the Osada / Western.

Era: 2010s

NAWASHI · TEACHER

Russian nawashi, teacher, photographer and organizer; founder of Shibari Club Yugen and RopeSchool, creator of the ArtCo rope-event umbrella, and author of the Shibari.Guru online lesson / performance-archive project. Started tying in 2009, largely self-taught through workshops with Russian, European, and Japanese riggers. Received Osada-ryu certification in 2015. RopeSchool identifies him as founder and instructor, while the ArtCo / RopeFest Petersburg source says he created ArtCo to educate and support a careful approach to shibari through classes, festivals and rope evenings in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Shibari.Guru's About page says its video lessons are based on the RopeSchool course and Boris Mosafir's additional author seminars, with performance videos from ArtCo-organized events and other shibari masters. Has organised seminars with Akira Naka, Hajime Kinoko, Riccardo Wildties, Bruce Esinem, and others. In February 2012 he also organized and participated in the Saint Petersburg photography exhibition Captured Beauty / Пленённая красота, billed by a retrospective source as Russia's first dedicated shibari exhibition; the atlas preserves that wording as an attributed claim rather than an absolute priority statement. ShibariNews also credits him with organizing Russian events such as RopeFest, RopeDay, BondageCafe, NawaYoi, Fetish Faculty and RopeNight. Nawapedia.ru identifies Boris as chief editor of the Art Co-maintained Russian shibari wiki.

School: Osada / Western

Certifications / instructor licenses from: Osada Steve.

Influences (mutual or directional): Naka Akira, Alex Bombarda, RopEmotion, Yulia Vasileva, UnkownRigger, WisDomme.

Influenced by: Post-Soviet Russian-Language Shibari Scene.

Collaborators: Karol Soulrope, Vasilisa Lesnaya.

Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: RopeSchool, ArtCo, RopeDay SPb, Bondage Cafe SPb, Moscow Knot / MoscowKnot International, EURIX 2010s, Rome Bondage Week, RopeFest 2010s, RopeFest 2020s.