ALL IMAGES COURTESY RUSSIAN TEAROOM GALLERY

Ferry transportation through Irtysh river (Tobolsk, 2005)

Bank employees celebrating a birthday of a colleague at Khali-Gali nightclub; striptease on the table is a present (St. Petersburg, 2002)

Zov Illitcha (which means “Lenin’s mating call”) restaurant (St. Petersburg, 2003)

Holiday of Kurban-Bairan (St. Petersburg, 2004)

Detox center (St. Petersburg, 2003)

Chairlift at Vorobiovy Gory (The Sparrow Hills, Moscow, 2004)

Baba Ania and her dog Tayson (Tobolsk, 2005)

Theological college (Makhatchcala, Dagestan, 2008)

Thermal mineral baths (Kamchatka, 2006) The “Pioneer” fur farm (Leningradskaya region, Russia, 2004)