Money
May 10, 2026
Yury Troshin has followed an unlikely route to Dubai's waters. The Russian-born general manager of Wind Rises Sailing Experience started his working life on the floor of an internal combustion engine plant before moving through computer sales, Canon commercial printers, telecoms and a clothing shop – until sailing eventually called him home.
Wind Rises, a sailing school founded more than 10 years ago in Russia, where it now has nine branches in operation, chose Dubai as its first international outpost. Mr Troshin arrived in 2022 to help set it up and spent the early months doing his utmost to make the business work: the research, the logistics, the licensing and getting a boat on the water. He splits his time between management and getting out on the water as a qualified instructor.
He earns Dh20,000 ($5,445) a month as general manager – and says that in Dubai, it doesn't go as far as he'd like.
