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...

The Old Ironworks

Nowadays the metallurgical plant in Nizhny Tagil in the Urals is a museum of history of ferrous metallurgy. Photo: Alexander Solo This old ironworks in Nizhny Tagil is called "Old Demidov's plant". It was...

Community Center

The community center in the town of Gavrilov-Yam. Text: Ilya Pilipenko Foto: Aleksandr Solo There is a community center in every Russian town. Actually, its presence is what maintains the urban status of th...

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 ...