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Valentina

Photo by @mmordasov from Apatity, Russia. Yesterday I went to a forest to enjoy a fog and made some photos. There I met Valentina. She is on retirement now, and she goes in for sports every day, likes both alpine and cross-country skiing. Valentina said, Sport is life.#apatity #polarnight #everydayrussia #crosscountry

Physiotherapy

Photo by @mmordasov from Apatity, RussiaThe boy caught a cold, and now he get a physiotherapy. His mother said that they often appeared in the media. It happened for the first time when she gave a birth to the son. #everydayrussia #polarnight #apatity

Plants

Photo by @mmordasov from Apatity, Russia. Northerners feel the lack of sunlight and green plants. You can find pot plants almost in every home and office. The most common place for plants is an inside windowsill. People often fix daylight lamps above sills to help the plant grow. Today I spent some hours in a …

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Mongrel Bim

Photo by @mmordasov from Apatity, Russia. Mongrel Bim is supposed to be a guard in a centre where pedigree sledge dogs live and work. But we found Bim loud but slightly coward. The owner assured us that the dog was smart and cunning. Some time ago Bim imagined itself to be a leader of a …

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On a frozen lake

Photo by wife of @mmordasov from Apatity, Russia. This boys are grateful to me for they got a chance to run and pull a sledge with me and my wife. Sledging on a frozen lake is an excellent way to have fun for both people and sledge dogs.#apatity #polarnight #dog #everydayrussia

Swimming

Photo by @mmordasov from Apatity, Russia. Winter swimming is very typical activity in Russia. At noon, right after the sunrise I went to a lake to photograph swimming people. Owing to a hard frost the lake was frozen and hidden under the thick layer of ice. First of all swimmers had to cut, saw and …

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Barents Sea

Photo by @mmordasov from Teriberka, Russia. Barents Sea is a part of the Artic Ocean. Sharp frost, sparkling snow and waving water put me into a trance.#everydayrussia #teriberka #polarnight #barentssea

Neglected boat

Photo by @mmordasov from Teriberka, Russia. Due to sickness I had to stay home for a solid day and made no one photo. I decided to show you some pictures from my previous trip to this nothern land. On photo: Neglected boats are frozen in nearby a small settlement Teriberka, January, 2015.Barents Sea is a …

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Fish

Photo by @mmordasov from Apatity, Russia. Today I was staying in line about an hour to buy this marvellous trout. The fish was super fresh and cost 330 rubles (approx. $ 4.6) per kilo. How glad I was when we found roe in the fish! We salted the roe immediately, and now I can’t wait …

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Library

Photo by @mmordasov from Apatity, Russia. The library my wife went to when she was a pupil. The building was designed and built in early 1990th, and almost nothing has changed there. There are frescoes at the top of the walls illustrating the most famous and important Russian works of fiction. Can you find on …

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