"Best of Russia" is a photo project, unprecedented in scale, the project's goal is to authentically capture a year in the life of Russia in the most vivid and creative photographs
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Nikolai Gernet
Pacification. National park “Onezh Seaboard”.
Sergei Bannich
Thunderbolt. Lighting above a lake in Yekaterinburg.
Tatiana Belyakova
The water color of May in Ivanovo Oblast.
Olga Chumachenko
Fire in a forest in the Tver region.
Dmitry Chistoprudov
The ghost village of Gamsutl is an abandoned ancient Avar settlement in Dagestan, North Caucasus. The village, which is carved in rock atop a 4600-feet high mountain, is barely noticeable these days.
Andrei Grachev
Lake Baikal in March.
Tatiana Smirnova
The long-tailed rosefinch, a non-migratory bird common to Siberia and the Urals.
Andrey Chernikh
The birth of a white bear for the first time in 42 years is an important event in the life of Novosibirsk. The whole city was involved in the naming process, eventually opting to call him Shilka. Novosibirsk Oblast.
Alexei Charitonov
Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka, at sunrise.
Alexandr Krivoshapkin
The stoats in Sakha (Yakutia) Republic.
Vikror Pantus
Cape Stolbchaty in the Kuril Islands. The natural columns resemble an amphitheater.
Svetlana Shinkarenko
The owlets in Volgograd Oblast.
Victoria Smirnova
Houseleek pattern. Moscow region.
Denis Bud’kov
Tolbatchik volcano’s final blow. This volcanic eruption ended one year ago, but lava can still be seen. Kamchatka.
Vitaly Voronin
A road leading in the vast expanses of Bashkiria.
