The Last August of the Soviet Union
The August Coup, Moscow, 1991. Oleg Klimov's archive for media.
Photographer's Diary
Here I share photographs—reports, stories, and visual essays from different corners of Russia. You can view and read them, and—guided by instinct, logic, or quiet intuition—compare them with other authors’ perspectives.
A Town Without a Bridge
The Tutaev religious procession, the Volga river, and the day when the whole town becomes a road
A City with Someone Else’s Passport
Rybinsk, Soviet Memory, and the Names Power Imposed
Operation Enduring Freedom
It is always easier to go to war than to return to peace
Once, There Was a Garden of Eden
There was a time when I was searching for paradise on Earth…
One Way Ticket to Siberia
A platzkart carriage is the Soviet idea of collective travel preserved into…
The Country of Red Shamans
Photographer's Diary. Tuva, Russia. September 2001 Shaman Saylyk-ool during the ritual at…
The Hospital Where War Did Not Exist
Serbs and Albanians Still Lived Together The psychiatric hospital in Štimlje (Stimlje/Shtime),…
Mr. Soros, Where Are My Crates?
On War, Humanism, and Three Wooden Coffins По-русски Today I dreamt that…