The All-Union Nature festival “Pristine Russia” will take place in Moscow from January 24 to February 23 in the Central House of Artists. It is this largest cultural, ecological, and educational event in the country dedicated to the Russia Year of Culture. The Festival’s centerpiece is an exhibit of 250 photographs of the unique natural world and landscapes from all corners of Russia.
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Vitali Voronin
The all-Russian festival Nature festival "Pristine Russia" will take place in Moscow from January 24 to February 23 in the Central House of Artists. It is the country’s largest cultural, ecological, and educational event dedicated to the “Year of Culture in Russia”. / Storm
Sergei Tereshenko
The Festival's centerpiece is an exhibit of 250 photographs of the unique natural world and landscapes from all corners of Russia. The project presented such photo projects as "Russia: A View from Space", "Russia from a Train's Window", "Best of the Best" as well as photographs taken by pilots on board a plane and the Olympic Committee's exposition "Animal Athletes". / Charms of Summer
Konstantin Kokoshkin
"Chusovaya River" / Chusovaya River is a nature park in Sverdlovsk Oblast. Its area is 771 square kilometers. The closest city is Nizhny Tagil and Perm.
Dmitriy Moiseenko, Stanislav Sedov, Sergei Semenov
"Lava"
Stepanov Andrei
"Providence Bay" / Providence Bay is located in the Bering Sea’s Gulf of Anadyr off the coast of the Chutkotsky Peninsula’s south eastern coast. The nearest town is the village of Providence. It has its own international airport next to the town of Ureliki.
Oleg Ponteleev
"Owner of Tulos Lake" / Lake Tulos is a large freshwater lake in Karelia located near the Russian-Finnish border. The nearest city is located near Muyzersky Lake.
Mihail Kornilov
"Reshetihinskiye distances" / The area near the working town of Reshetikha in Russia's Nizhy Novogorod Oblast', 383 kilometers from Moscow.
Janny Ross
"Shikotan Island" / Shikotan Island is the largest island of the Lesser Ridge of the Kuril Islands (the chain of islands between Kamchatka and the island of Hokkaido, Japan.)
Igor Shpilenok
"Bryansk forest" / Bryansk Forest is a state nature biosphere reserve located in Bryansk Oblast’. Its area is 121,000 square km. It is included in UNESCO’s network of biosphere reserves. Trubchevsk is the nearest city.
Igor Shpilenok
"Fox Ognevka"
Tereshenko Sergei
"The ruffs"
Sergei Dolya
"Kotuikan River's Tamyr Meander" / Kotuykan River is located in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk krai. The river is 447 km long. It is part of the Khatanga River’s basin
Sergei Tereshenko
"Soaring falcon"
Maxim Astaphiev
"Sarma Baikail wind"
Olga Kamenskaya
"Spring in a Baikal seal’s lair"
Sergei Gorshkov
"Vrangel Island's muskoxen" / Wrangel Island is located in the Arctic Ocean, named in honor of the 19th century Russian navigator, Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel.
Ilya Melnikov
"Dawn at Taganay National Park" / Taganai National Park is located in the South Urals. It is situated in the western part of Chelyabinsk Oblast’. The nearest city is Zlatoust. The park’s precious ecosystems—which include mountain tundra, meadows, subalpine forests, and relict forests—remain in near-pristine condition. It covers 568 square km.
Sergei Rumyancev, Stanislav Sedov
"Cracks in the Baikal ice seen from a height of 200 m"
Sergei Tereshenko
"Ermine on the Great River"
