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These photos are the result of five years of immersion in the life of the Kola Peninsula, located in the Murmansk region, also known as Russian Lapland. This land is located in the north-west of Russia and is surrounded by Barents and White Seas.
The Kola Peninsula, and in the old stake, is the harsh land, the inhabitants of which cope with two months of winter darkness and year-round polar weather.
Cola is a promised land, great northern utopia: Sami live here for millennia - in the past they wandered on this earth after their deer herds, and are now trying to save their identity. Other people came here from all corners of Russia to build their fate and live the Russian Arctic.
Cola is a secret territory in which military facilities and missile weapons were placed in Soviet times - in the highest concentration in the world. To this day, there are bases of the Northern Fleet and several closed cities, access to which is strictly limited.
Kola is a strategic area whose geographical position was vital for Russia and its allies during two world wars. Thanks to this position, Murmansk arose-the last city founded in the Russian Empire (in 1916), and the largest city of Arctic.
Cola is a fragmented land, divided between mining industry, military forces and native-natives, separated from each other by invisible boundaries.
Partially inaccessible-due to regime objects, the language barrier and the lack of roads-the mysterious peninsula nevertheless gave me these photos.
I drowned in the landscapes of this mysterious land - like in a huge snowdrift.