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All together now: TOP 10 best galleries of 2015

A selection of the best galleries made in 2015 by RBTH. Be sure not to miss any of them.
By Ksenia Isaeva, RBTH
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Branson DeCou

Frozen fragments of the early Soviet Union: Photos taken by Branson DeCou, an American traveler and photographer who traveled around the world for 30 years. In 1931 he visited Russia, capturing the ordinary life of the newborn USSR.
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ARTHUR BONDAR

“The air is red, the ground is shaking, and you desperately want to live...” A series of small photos along with a big story from a veteran. For more than five years, photographer Arthur Bondar has been taking portraits of World War II veterans from Russia and Ukraine on Polaroid film in a series called “Signatures of War”.
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Irina Yulieva

12 school memories that every Russian shares. Photographer Irina Yulieva spent the whole day with her son's class everywhere they went. She captured the moments of school life that parents know almost nothing about.
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Ludmila Averianova

Rehabilitation of Orthodoxy on the Solovetsky Islands: Photos taken on the Solovetsky Islands, the site of the toughest camp in the entire Gulag system. It is a part of the wider Solovki project, which consists of a gallery, web-doc and videos about life there.
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Best female nudes in Russian art. We chose 12 paintings depicting nude women, trying to answer the main question: why have Russian women always been so admired?
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Sergei Maximishin

Russia without the skin. Twice a winner of World Press Photo Sergei Maximishin depicting the real Russia, a country that might not look too pretty at first sight but is brimming with feeling, emotion and charm.
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EVGENIYA ZHULANOVA

Living in the only town in the world on the Arctic Circle. The life of Salekhad, a town 1513 miles north of Moscow (2436 km), where the snow and frost last 200 days a year.
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10 reasons you should never ever visit Moscow. We cannot hide the truth any more: the Russian capital is not the best place to visit. We name 10 reasons why.
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ATOMFLOT / SLAVA STEPANOV/GELIO

Gallery from the Russian Megafactories series: Unique atomic icebreakers accompanying Russian and foreign cargo vessels along the Northern Sea Route are captured in photos.
December 28, 2015
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