The selected best photographs of Russia.
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Natalya Scripka
The
"Best of Russia" photo project, unprecedented in scale and covering all regions of the country, takes place annually. RBTH presents photos from "War and peace inside us" series. / The world is tired of war.
Sergei Khitrov
Meeting after many years apart. Sredny Peninsula, the Murmansk Region. A common grave for marines. A woman from Moscow at the place where her husband died.
Oleg Chebotarev
More than 1,000 soldiers that died during the Battle of Stalingrad were reburied on June 22, 2015.
Elena Supitaleva
“It’s also our pain.” A fragment from the Katyn memorial near Smolensk. The mass murder of Polish citizens was carried out here in the spring of 1940 by the NKVD secret police of the USSR.
Pavel Miroshnikov
A member of a special-forces unit after completing the final test in order to receive a maroon beret (an international symbol of elite airborne forces).
Alexandr Kadnikov
A place in a museum. A museum in a patriotic club.
Dmitry Ilyin
A woman praying in front of a local church during a cold evening.
Roman Shaternikov
Military unit in Moscow.
Vera Mazhirina
Yevgenia, an Old Believer and the daughter of a priest, prays while holding onto a prayer rope.
