Knyazhpogost
A city near the railroad
Text and photos: Ilya Pilipenko Translation: Datura Metel
It’s early morning. Near the bus station building a few people are smoking sulkily, inspecting at the newcomers. A couple m...
Asbest The Best
Text: residents of Asbest.
Photo: Aleksandr Solo, Ekaterina Tolkacheva,
Translated by DM.
E very city has something special, that you can remember with warmth, something that makes it native and loved...
Steelworker’s Day
Direct speech from the town festival.
Text and photo by: Ekaterina Tolkacheva
The metallurgic plant in Karabash has solid relationships with the city. These relationships are sometimes painful, but Steelwor...
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...
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 ...