Tofalariya! Outstanding, wonderful, mysterious mountain country of taiga, lost in the heart the East Sayan. It’s a place of wild and severe mountain ranges, created by forces of nature. It’s an almost impassable region of taiga, where trees die from old age, and centenary cedars can shelter a traveler from bad weather. It’s a land of animal paths and pure rivers and streams. It’s easy to come across with a bear, but difficult — with a man. Only about one

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It looks like just enumeration of some geographical objects, doesn’t it? But it is a route of a difficult photo expedition. The Suntar mountain range, stretched out in the areas of the south-east part of Yakutia and the north-west part of the Khabarovsk Territory, first caught my attention few years ago. When you look at the map, you can notice that the Suntar-Khayata stands out among surrounding mountains for its height and iced tops. Besides, it is situated near Kolymskaya

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As it is known, Taimyr peninsula is the farthest northern part of the continent. It is severe place, but at the same time very beautiful. And, in its southest part, where it enters Asian continent, there is a fantastic and wonderful formation of nature – Putorana Plato. When you get here, you start filling the whole unreality of the your surroundings: the forces of nature lifted this part of the land, which consists of basalt rocks. Some rivers have changed

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The Urals have the certain image among the people, to the great extent it was formed by Bajov’s fairy tales and other legends. This mountain range is often called as old, and even ancient, and there are lots of gems in its entrails. It looks like the truth, when you talk about the middle part of the Urals. But there is a purpose of calling the Urals – The Stone Belt, as they stretch from Kazakhstan to the Karskoe sea,

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The name of this rather long river is well-known to many Russians. Its also very famous outside of Russia because of Tunguska meteorite. Although nobody has found remains of this meteorite yet, there is a fact that in 1908 in taiga, not far away from Vanara settlement a great explosion happened. You can see the signs of this accident even nowadays. Lots of hypothesis have been offered since then. Undoubtedly the mystery draws strong attention of those, who look for

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Magadan is frequently called the capital of Kolyma area. But it should be mentioned that Kolyma flows only in the upper part of Magadan reqion. The rest is located on the territory of Yakutia. And if one examines Magadan region, he will find out, that it consists not only of Kolyma area (and generally not only from mountains and taiga, rivers and lakes), but also another areas, for example, Sea of Okhotsk with its coast. The seashore has very odd

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Kamchatka is the precious dream of any photographer, whose field of activity concerns landscapes and nature in general. In summer of 2007 I was lucky to visit this desired land and spend there two unforgettable months. Such landscape and nature diversity is hardly to be found elsewhere. Volcanic activity there creates specific, unique appearance of this land. But the real picture was far from the initial idea. There were two main surprises. Firstly, there is no any wild and virgin

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