Non-Moscow
Every year Moscow is moving further away from the rest of Russia. I travel over Russia, I talk to people, I shoot how they live and I see the increasing difference between Moscow and Russia: in people’s income, in the tempo of life, in the characters, in the ways of survival. The regions suffer from a shortage of funding as the most of the taxes are transferred to the center.
People are separating themselves more and more from Moscow and from the state. One person told me: “We are out of the official statistics. We get a pension below the subsistence level, but we have gardens for food, mushrooms, hunting and fishing, and we are trying to earn without formal employment. That’s why Moscow doesn’t know about us. The state is there, in Moscow, and we are here, we survive somehow.”
Moreover, the rich Moscow is aggressively meddling in the local people’s lives, starting with cottages on the most delicious sites and ending with the expansion of Moscow developers with the cutting down of parks, demolition of historical buildings, etc.
But I do not want to oppose Moscow and the rest of Russia in my photos, as well as there is no aim to show only the negative side. Fortunately, there are many good things. I just want to show the life outside the capital today.


Spring flood. Voskresenskiy district, Moscow region, 22.04.2012


On the territory of the Ethnographic Park "Etnomir" during the music fest. Kaluga region, 03.06.2012


Pskov. 11.06.2012


Cheboksary, Russia. Victory Day, 09.05.2013


Kazan, Russia. 10.05.2013


Kaluga, March 2016


Kaluga, March 2016


Ryazan, May 2016


Nerskaya river. Voskresensky district, Moscow region. 16.07.2016


Near the village of Kuzomen',White sea, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk region. September 2016 / У деревни Кузомень, Белое море, Кольский полуостров, Мурманская обл. Сентябрь 2016


Dogs in the driver's cab waiting for master to go to hunt. The village of Varzuga, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk region. September 2016 / Собаки в кабине машины ждут хозяина для выезда на охоту. Поселок Варзуга, Кольский полуостров, Мурманская обл. Сентябрь 2016


The domes prepared for a wooden church in the village of Varzuga. Kola Peninsula, Murmansk region. September 2016 / Заготовленные купола для церкви в поселке Варзуга. Кольский полуостров, Мурманская обл. Сентябрь 2016


Local residents. Chupa settlement, Republic of Karelia. September 2016 / Местные жители. Поселок Чупа, Республика Карелия. Сентябрь 2016


Planting cabbage near Kolomna, Moscow region. May 4, 2017


Roadside horns selling. Tver region, 06.05.2017


Spring is the time when the last year dry grass is often being fired by the people who try to free the land from the grass. It causes the fires.


Rehearsal for the celebration of Victory Vay. Yaroslavl, Russia, May 2017


Cows milking near Nizhniy Lomov. Penza region, 18.06.2017


Syzran, Samara region. 19.06.2017


Syzran, Samara region. 19.06.2017


Syzran, Samara region. 19.06.2017


Cultivation of strawberries. Sukhodol settlement, Samara region. June 2017


Sukhodol settlement, Samara region. 20.06.2017


Town of Oktyabrskiy, Republic of Bashkortostan, 20.06.2017


Ust-Katav town, Cheliabinsk region, 22.06.2017


The school janitor banishes the cows from the school yard. Yuruzan town, Cheliabinsk region, 22.06.2017


Bakal town, Cheliabinsk region. 22.06.2017


Satka town, Cheliabinsk region, 22.06.2017


Satka town, Cheliabinsk region, 22.06.2017


Competition in mass-wrestling. Sysert' town, Sverdlov region, 24.06.2017


The man pulls out of the river the trunk of the tree for firewood. Perm, Russia, 27.06.2017


The road patched with the bricks. Krasnokamsk, Perm region, 27.06.2017


Ochior town, Perm region, 27.06.2017


Outskirts of Kirov. 28.06.2017


Graduates of the school. Orlov town, Kirov region, 28.06.2017


The village of Umyet (Mordovia) is the unofficial "capital" of the roadside cafes for truckers. 19.08.2017


Bridge reconstruction. Krasnoslobodsk, Republic of Mordovia, 19.08.2017


Decorations of the yard in front of the village house. Malye Gorodischi settlement near Bezhetsk town. Tver region, Russia. 30.04.2018


The wheelchair at the hatch, where its homeless owner lives. Tyumen, Russia, 12.05.2018


Car service advertising. Uliyanovsk region, Russia, 08.07.2018


Sale of draft beer at the brewery "Zhiguli". A place of worship "At the bottom", Samara, Russia. 08.07.2018


District "Krutiye Kliuchi" ("Abrupt Springs" or "Cool Springs") on the outskirts of Samara with the economy class housing. Russia, 08.07.2018


Sorochinsk, Orenburg region, Russia. 09.07.2018


Salt lake resort in the Sol'-Iletsk town, Orenburg region, Russia, 10.07.2018


Salt lake resort in the Sol'-Iletsk town, Orenburg region, Russia, 10.07.2018


Salt lake resort in the Sol'-Iletsk town, Orenburg region, Russia, 10.07.2018


Salt lake resort in the Sol'-Iletsk town, Orenburg region, Russia, 10.07.2018


Street market. Salt lake resort in the Sol'-Iletsk town, Orenburg region, Russia, 10.07.2018


Making the dumplings in cafe. Mednogorsk town, Orenburg region. Russia, 11.07.2018


Sale of melons and watermelons. Novotroitsk, Orenburg region. Russia, 12.07.2018


Near the Novotroitsk metallurgical combine, Novotroitsk, Orenburg region. Russia, 12.07.2018


Dump trucks working on the Guy mining and processing plant cross the public road. Guy (Gai) town, Orenburg region. Russia, 12.07.2018


Farmer Karim Usmanovitch who came from Azerbaijan. Spasskiy settlement, Cheliabinsk region. Russia, 13.07.2018


Farmer Karim Usmanovitch who came from Azerbaijan. Spasskiy settlement, Cheliabinsk region. Russia, 13.07.2018


Cheliabinsk, Russia, 14.07.2018


Celebration of the City Day. Karabash, Russia, 14.07.2018


Motocross competitions dedicated to the city day in Kamensk-Uralskiy (Sverdlov region). Russia, 15.07.2018


Rezh town, Sverdlov region. Russia, 17.07.2018


The dam in Achit settlement, Sverdlov region. Russia, 18.07.2018


The dam in Uinskoye setllement. Perm region, Russia, 18.07.2018


Chaykovskiy town, Perm region. Russia, 19.07.2019


Evening in the center of Uva settlement, Republic of Udmurtiya. Russia, 19.07.2018


Malmyzh town, Kirov region. Russia, 20.07.2018


Preparations for the feast of the Kazan icon of the mother of God. Malmyzh town, Kirov region. Russia, 20.07.2018


Sernur town, Republic of Mari-El. Russia, 21.07.2018


Duck farm. Republic of Mari-El. Russia, 21.07.2018


In the center of Yoshkar-Ola city, Republic of Mari El. Russia, 21.07.2018


Igor Ovsiannikov, the activist of the liberal democratic party, at his home. Lev Tolstoy settlement, Lipetsk region. Russia, 02.09.2018


Igor Ovsiannikov, the activist of the liberal democratic party, with his adopted son. Lev Tolstoy settlement, Lipetsk region. Russia, 02.09.2018


Igor Ovsiannikov, the activist of the liberal democratic party. Lev Tolstoy settlement, Lipetsk region. Russia, 02.09.2018


City day. Elets town, Lipetsk region. Russia, 02.09.2018


City day. Elets town, Lipetsk region. Russia, 02.09.2018


Former village school techer. Lipetsk-Oryol regions boundary. Russia, 03.09.2018


Anatoly, an electrician retired, in a hostel for the deaf and dumb, where he lives all his life. Livny town, Oryol region. Russia, 03.09.2018


Man serving his old motorcycle in the garage. Karachev town, Briansk region. Russia, 05.09.2018


Welding the frame for drying carpets in the yard. Trubchevsk town, Briansk region. Russia, 05.09.2018


Valery Sukhanov, the head of the "Club of Amateur aviation technical creativity "STARODUB", in the process of creating of the 84-th aircraft with his own hands. Starodub town, Briansk region. Russia, 06.09.2018


Valery Sukhanov, the head of the "Club of Amateur aviation technical creativity "STARODUB", in the process of creating of the 84-th aircraft with his own hands. Starodub town, Briansk region. Russia, 06.09.2018


Inside the gas boiler house. Klintsy town, Briansk region. Russia, 06.09.2018


Demonstration of weapons in the city center in honor Of the day of the tankman. Gusev town, Kaliningrad region. Russia, 09.09.2018


Funeral services in the Labiau former castle. Polessk town, Kaliningrad region. Russia, 10.09.2018


Water spring. Kaliningrad city, Russia, 11.09.2018


Gvardeysk town, Kaliningrad region. Russia, 14.09.2018


Water carrier draws water from the well to deliver it to locals. Erdnievskiy settlement, Republic of Kalmikiya, Russia, 28.09.2017


Water carrier brought water from the well to water the sheep. Erdnievskiy settlement, Republic of Kalmikiya, Russia, 28.09.2017


Near the well where the water carriers draw water and then deliver it to locals. Erdnievskiy settlement, Republic of Kalmikiya, Russia, 28.09.2017


Free-standing toilets for residents of two-storey brick apartment buildings. Separate toilet for each apartment. Yashkul' town. Republic of Kalmikiya, Russia. 28.09.2017


It is common in Kalmikia to make fences of the wheels of agricultural machinery. Republic of Kalmikiya, Russia, 27.09.2017


Dead cows trapped in the mud when trying to drink in the water channel. Republic of Kalmikiya, Russia, 27.09..2017


Artesian well in the Northern, flat part of Dagestan near the border with the Republic of Kalmykia. Russia, 26.09.2017


Near Musultemakhi settlement, Republic of Dagestan. Russia, 25.09.2017


Chirag settlement. Republic of Dagestan, Russia. 25.09.2017


Chirag settlement. Republic of Dagestan, Russia. 25.09.2017


Imam in the local mosque. Goa settlement, Republic of Dagestan. Russia, 25.09.2017


Goa settlement, Dagestan, Russia. 25.09.2017


School in Goa settlement, Dagestan, Russia. 25.09.2017


School in Goa settlement, Dagestan, Russia. 25.09.2017


Derbent city, Dagestan, Russia. 24.09.2017


Khasavyurt town, Dagestan, Russia. 23.09.2017


Kalmykiya, Russia. 22.09.2017


Tank converted into a drinking bowl for sheep. Republic of Kalmykiya, Russia. 22.09.2017


Workers dismantle the former evening school on the bricks. Kamyziak town, Astrakhan region, 22.09.2017


Teenagers in a former summer cinema. The "Paper manufacturers" settlement in the outskirts of Astrakhan. 21.09.2017


Astrakhan, 21.09.2017


Tractor drivers wait for the ferry across the Akhtuba river in Mikhailovka village. Astrakhan region, 20.09.2017


Basunchak salt lake. Astrakhan region, 19.09.2017


Akhtubinsk, Astrakhan region. 19.09.2017


Shepherdess in Solyanka village. Astrakhan region, 19.09.2017


Harvesting onions. Volgograd region, 18.09.2017


Agricultural seasonal workers from Tajikistan. Volgograd region, 18.09.2017


Training for motocross near Mikhailovka, Volgograd region. 17.09.2017

