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The Cat and the Fox;   Kronotsky Nature Reserve, Kamchatka is one of Russia's oldest wildlife reserves, founded under Stalin in 1934.

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Jewish children with a Teacher in Samarkand, about 1910

One of the photos of Sergei Prtokudin-Gorski  of Imperial Russia.

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Pinkhus Karlinskii, Supervisor of Chernigov Floodgate

pic:  Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
Library of Congress

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Three young women offer berries to visitors to their izba, a traditional wooden house, in a rural area along the Sheksna River, near the town of Kirillov.

photo:

Sergei Prokudin-Gorski

Library of Congress 

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Pryaniki: Russian gingerbread or spice cookies.
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 Yenisei River, Siberia

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Siberian Flowers

photo: The Polar Route
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