I am the person who restored all the annotations to the original CookinginRussia videos and managed the multiple Google Drive accounts that contained the restored videos. (Greg provided the Google Drive links to subscribers as a membership perk.) Upon news of Greg's passing, I decided to make the videos available to all by placing them in a YouTube channel, CookinginRussia Redux. Greg was elated that I restored his videos for him. He even mentioned it in the introduction of vol. 4 of his cookbook series. Greg was devastated when YouTube destroyed his years of work by removing the annotations. He told me that he was grateful that his legacy would live on with those videos. Because of that, I enabled the Redux channel after his passing. Those who are not familiar with Greg's body of work and didn't spend time watching every video and making the recipes won't even care or notice these videos. Greg didn't make videos to appeal to those only interested in high-end productions and fancy kitchen sets. Viewers who think those things are important probably wouldn't get what he was doing anyways. I was watching Greg's videos right from the beginning. My brother discovered him shortly after the posting of his first videos, shared the links with me, and we were blown away by the knowledge and techniques that Greg was sharing. No online chef we had ever seen had shared information and recipes like this before. It was like being in a secret culinary club. Greg talked to us like he was talking to an old friend, and you could tell that he truly enjoyed what he was doing. When we posted questions, he would respond almost immediately. I think he greatly enjoyed responding to his fans. We discussed all of them, cooked most of them, and couldn't wait for the next recipe to drop. I would transcribe all of them into a written version so I didn't have to refer to the recipe while cooking them. It was nice when he finally started providing the full recipe and procedures beginning with Vol. 2, but usually I couldn't wait. Greg talked about re-writing Vol. 1 to include the full recipe and procedure, but that never came to fruition. (Within his Vol. 1 period are some absolute culinary gems. I would encourage everyone to revisit those recipes, as there are many delightful things to be found there.) I have a searchable digital archive of every one of his recipes, something I consider a prized possession. After I had given Greg all the restored CookinginRussia videos, we became good online friends. We constantly played Quiz Planet, in which I was constantly pummeled. Greg's knowledge of all things trivia was hard to beat, but I did have an edge in the area of U.S. pop culture, which was a subject Greg did not keep up with. We shared the occasional email, and he would sometimes elude to the difficult personal experiences he was facing. After the closing of Laava and the harsh COVID-19 restrictions in Finland, things were difficult for Greg. Greg was a guy who certainly deserved a comeback, but I think the weight of the world took it's toll on him. I truly hope his memory and legacy lives on. The impact his work and friendship had on me was life changing. Nearly every time I make one his recipes, friends and family tell me it was one of the best things they ever put in their mouth. I would like to claim it as my own invention, but I always give credit where it is due. I tell them the same thing I had said many times before. "Of course it's good, it's one of the Chef's recipes!"