«Take the first car, Motherland!»
The archive of AvtoVAZ.
When we were working in Tolyatti, we got a scanned archive of AvtoVAZ. It was even not quite archive, just a large number of photos without captions and chronology. A plant under constr...
Division by Night
Cities of Pikalyovo and Sokol at night.
Text: Ilya Pilipenko Photo: Evgeniy Vanichev Translation: Katya Risu
Darkness evens out everything. All detail disappears leaving only a glimpse of its existence. All...
Industrial
Music from Avtograd
Text and music: Pavel Madurov.
Photos: Pavel Madurov, Anton Akimov. Editors: Ekaterina Tolkacheva, Anton Akimov.Post Holiday Syndrome by Pavel Madurov
MUSIC.
...It was as in a fog, and...
Porogi
The oldest functioning hydroelectric plant in Russia.
Text and photos by: Ekaterina Tolkacheva
Translated by: DM
An everpresent rush of water from the dam outside accompanied by a steady drone from the g...
Zlatoust Fashion
Ural monotown and thirst for the fine.
Text and photo: Ekaterina Tolkacheva.
These photos represent the clothing collection of designer Semyon Dedyaev, citizen of Zlatoust, small Ural town.
Semyon Dedya...
The Nonzeroes
Coal, man and voidness.
Text and photo: Ilya Pilipenko
There is a peculiar calendar in Novokuznetsk. Time is often measured by the tragedies here. That’s what people say: “when “Ulyana” blew” or “after “Ras...
The Comebackers
How the heroes become more important than the story.
Text and photo: Anton Sokolov
I couldn’t write this unfortunate text from the very first trip to Pikalevo, so, in point of fact, from the very beginning ...
Place Where Enthusiasm Cooled
A few winter days in the town of Sokol.
Text and Foto: Ilya Pilipenko
The darkness of the sky becomes denser closer to the horizon, and if not for snow, it would be impossible to actually see where the sky ...
At the Bottom of an Openpit
The abandoned openpits of the Bakal became the place of the annual performance.
Text and photo: Ekaterina Tolkacheva
Bakal openpits are situated 20 kilometers away from Satka. Digging for ore here began in ...
Aside from the Highway
A few days in Karabash.
Text and photo: Екатерина Толкачева
City of Karabash in Chelyabinsk region. Copper plant, a constant headache of the local authorities because of environmental problems and social issu...