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Snow-Covered Monastery. The Khutyn Monastery of Saviour's Transfiguration and of St. Varlaam, on the right bank of the Volkhov River near Novgorod.

Since 2003, photographer Sergey Fomin has been shooting Russias most attractive natural, historical, and architectural objects from different aircrafts. This passion project has taken him to over 30 regions of Russia and had its share of dangers, including one incident in a balloon that landed in a swamp with a great acceleration, says Fomin. By a miracle, his lenses survived. Fomin says his work never loses its allure: It doesnt matter what I managed to photograph on that day a strict geometric pattern of the St. Peter and St. Paul Fortress, goose flock spilled over the Ob river, or the lake in the crater of the volcano in Kamchatka while landing on the ground I catch myself on the same thought: How beautiful the flight was!

An Explosive Scene. The 1,486-meter-high Karymskii Volcano in Kamchatka.

Russia From Above: By the River. Lena Pillars National Park, located on the Sinyaya river in the Yakutia (Sakha) Republic.

San Petesburgo

Luzhniki Stadium

These Hills are Alive. In the Magadan Region of far east Russia.

Ice, Ice Baby. Ice fishing in Tatarstan Republic.

Delta Queen. Along the Delta of the Volga River in the Astrakhan region.

A Russian Sunrise. Day breaks near Suzdal, in Vladimir Oblast.

The Red Fortress. An aerial look at the Kremlin in Moscow.

A Crowded Sochi Beach. Looking down at the Adler resort on the Black Sea coast, located at the mouth of the Mzymta River.

Russia From Above: Lake Effect. A view of a salt lake in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, near the border of Kazakhstan.

Pskov

The Assumption Monastery.Florishcheva Hermitage

The State Academic Institute of paiinting, sculture and Architecture, Named After Ilya Repin

The Pskov Krom( Kremlin)

The bronze Horseman Monument to Emperor Peter I on the Senatore Square

The Peterhof.The lion cascade and the Colonnade

A Siberian Plateau. The Putorana Plateau, on the Taymyr Peninsula in northern Siberia.

The Volga Delta.The Cormorants

The Solovetskty Monastery

The big Solovetsky Island

The Other Fortress. The Kazan Kremlin, in the Republic of Tatarstan

The sea cost of the white sea

Crater Lake. Acid lake in the crater of Malyi Semyachik Volcano in Kamchatka.

Cows in the Tesa River

Brown Bear, What Do You See? A Brown Bear swimming in Kamchatka.

The Zhizhginsky Island

Novodevichy Convent

Diveyevo

The Vitoslavlitsy Museum of Wooden Architecture

Vorsma

Under a Cover of Clouds. The hills of Taiga in the Beryozovsky district of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area.

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