Russia and Finland
 

Caucasus Mineral Waters TU154 plane

 

Ilyushin IL86 plane

 

Fountain Peterhof

 

Fountain Peterhof

 

Tilia Lime avenue Peterhof

 

Adam fountain Peterhof

 

Lion's cascade Peterhof

 

Lion's cascade Peterhof

 

Lion's cascade Peterhof

 

Lion's cascade Peterhof

 

Pyramid fountain Peterhof

 

Golden fountain Quaken fighting beast Peterhof

 

Golden fountain Quaken fighting beast Peterhof

 

Golden fountain Quaken fighting beast Peterhof

 

Grand cascade and sea canal Peterhof

 

Grand cascade of fountains and golden statues Peterhof

 

Grand palace Peterhof

 

church of St Peter and Paul Peterhof

 

Admiralteystvo

 

Admiralteystvo

 

Cathedral of Christ the Savior on the Blood

 

Fountains in river displaying to music

 

Fountains in river displaying to music

 

Hermitage

 

Queue for Hermitage

 

Hermitage

 

statue Hermitage

 

Interior decoration The Hermitage St Petersburg

 

Interior decoration The Hermitage St Petersburg

 

Interior decoration The Hermitage St Petersburg

 

Military gallery of winter palace devoted to 1812 war with Napoleon Hermitage

 

Interior decoration The Hermitage St Petersburg

 

Interior decoration The Hermitage St Petersburg

 

Interior decoration The Hermitage St Petersburg

 

Interior decoration The Hermitage St Petersburg

 

The Hermitage

 



 

Building at State Museum and Estate Tsarskoe Selo

 

State Museum and Estate Tsarskoe Selo

 

State Museum and Estate Tsarskoe Selo

 

State Museum and Estate Tsarskoe Selo

 

State Museum and Estate Tsarskoe Selo

 

State Museum and Estate Tsarskoe Selo

 

State Museum and Estate Tsarskoe Selo

 

State Museum and Estate Tsarskoe Selo

 



 



 



 



 



 

St Petersburg

 

St Petersburg

 

Chariot of victory on arch of general staff building

 

Ekaterininsky palace

 

Ekaterininsky palace

 

Ekaterininsky palace

 

Ekaterininsky palace

 

Hydrofoil

 

Map of places where Lenin visited in Petrograd district St Petersburg

 

Memorial to General Skobelev

 

Petropavlovsky cathedral

 

Petropavlovsky cathedral

 

Petropavlovsky cathedral

 

Petropavlovsky cathedral

 

Petropavlovsky cathedral and St Petersburg mosque

 

Petropavlovsky cathedral and St Petersburg mosque

 

plimsoll line on russian ship on canal in St Petersburg

 

Saint Isaac's Cathedral

 

Sightseeing helicopter

 

Spas-na-krovi cathedral

 

Spas-na-krovi cathedral

 

Spas-na-krovi cathedral

 

Trinity Bridge St Petersburg

 

Inside sleeper train

 

Inside sleeper train

 

Changing electric locomotive at Svir

 

Changing electric locomotive at Svir

 

Goods waggons

 

Fish seller

 

Monk Vyborg

 

Boats Vyborg

 

Boats Vyborg

 

Vyborg Castle

 

Vyborg Castle

 

Locks for weddings on bridge

 

People on platform buying goods from local traders and waiting for train to go

 

Sleeper train from St Petersburg to Moscow

 

Sleeper train from St Petersburg to Moscow

 

Sleeper train from St Petersburg to Moscow

 



 



 

possibly Lactarius spinosulus Lilacscale Milkcap

 

Tricholomopsis decora (??)

 

Ulmus laevis European White Elm

 



 

Cossack at Borodino

 

Cossack

 

Borodino battle lifeguard Cossacks

 

Borodino battle lifeguard Cossacks

 

Crowds at Borodino battle reenactment

 

French army at Borodino battle

 

French high command addressing troops

 

Hussars

 

Hussars

 

Borodino battle infantry lifeguard regiments firing guns

 

French army at Borodino battle

 

French high command Borodino

 

French army

 

French attack on Russian artillary

 

Borodino battle Russian artillary

 

Borodino battle Russian artillary

 

Borodino battle Russian artillary

 



 

Botanic garden of Moscow State University

 

Botanic garden of Moscow State University

 

Botanic garden of Moscow State University

 

Botanic garden of Moscow State University

 

Botanic garden of Moscow State University

 

Adonis volgensis at Botanic garden of Moscow State University

 

Anemone nemorosa Wood Anemone

 

Anemone nemorosa Wood Anemone

 

Monotrapa hypopitys Yellow Birdsnest

 

Gagea lutea Yellow Star of Bethlehem

 

Heracleum sosnowskyi

 

Heracleum sosnowskyi

 

Paris quadrifolia Herb Paris

 

Ramaria flava possibly

 

Roman snails in Moscow botanic garden (check species)

 

Senecio fluviatilis Broad-leaved Ragwort

 

Suillus luteus Slippery Jack

 

Sympetrum pedemontanum Banded Darter

 

Ant hills in abandoned agricultural land

 

Ant hills in abandoned agricultural land

 

Willow warbler possibly

 

Aronia melanocarpa

 

Katya

 

outdoor stove heating pans of water for preserving fruit and veg

 

Birch woodland

 

Buckwheat

 

Luzhetskiy Monastery

 

Cathedral Novo-Nikolskii

 

Cathedral Novo-Nikolskii

 

Elm tree killed by dutch elm disease (see photo year before when it was just starting)

 

River Inkona with wooded bank and meadow area

 

Sculpture of Nickola Mozhaiskii patron saint of Mozhaisk

 

Summer houses

 

Trians Moshaysk station

 

Trians Moshaysk station

 

Trolleybus and monorail

 

Monorail

 

Evening commuter train Yaroslavskiy vokzal Moscow

 

Peter the Great statue on Moskva river

 

Peter the Great statue on Moskva river

 

Moscow state university

 

Moscow state university

 

Moscow state university

 

Moscow state university

 

Moscow state university biology faculty classroom

 

Moscow State University

 

Moscow State University

 

Luzhniki stadium Moscow

 

Block of flats

 

Patriarkh block of flats

 



 



 

Aircraft cockpit controls Yakovlev YaK42

 

Aircraft cockpit controls Yakovlev YaK42

 

Fountain of the nations friendship VDNH National Exibition Center

 

Pavillion of Ukraine VDNH National Exibition Center

 

Main pavillion of VDNH National Exibition Center

 

Main pavillion of VDNH National Exibition Center

 

Lenin statue

 

Waiters and cashiers from above

 

Plazas and cafes inside GUM department store red square

 

Plazas and cafes inside GUM department store red square

 

Chocolate factory Krasniy Oktyabr

 

Church of life creating trinity

 

Church of life creating trinity

 

Church of life creating trinity

 

Cathedral of Christ the saviour

 

The church of the Intercession St Basils Cathedral Red Square

 

The church of the Intercession St Basils Cathedral Red Square

 

The church of the Intercession St Basils Cathedral Red Square

 

Kazanskyi cathedral on Red Square Moscow

 

Communist party rally

 

Lenin statue

 

Lenin's tomb red square

 

State history museum Red Square

 

The church of the Intercession St Basils Cathedral Red Square at night

 

doorway The Kremlin

 

Upper Saviour's Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin

 

Upper Saviour's Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin

 

The Archangel's Cathedral The Kremlin

 

The Assumption Cathedral The Kremlin

 

The Manege

 

The Senate The Kremlin

 

Trinity tower The Kremlin

 

Trinity tower The Kremlin

 

The Tsar Cannon (1586) The Kremlin

 

small boy and cannon The Kremlin

 

Cannons Kremlin

 

Tsar tower The Kremlin

 

Grand Kremlin palace

 

Grand Kremlin palace

 

Guards at eternal flame Kremlin

 

Guards at eternal flame Kremlin

 

Guards at eternal flame Kremlin

 

The Ivan the Great Bell-Tower, the Assumpton Belfry and Filaret Annex The Kremlin

 

The Ivan the Great Bell-Tower, the Assumpton Belfry and Filaret Annex The Kremlin

 

The Ivan the Great Bell-Tower, the Assumpton Belfry and Filaret Annex The Kremlin

 

Town called 25km (Kukisvumchorr)

 



 

Alcemilla sp.

 

Alchemilla alpina Alpine Lady's Mantle

 

Alectoria ochroleuca (centre)

 

Alectoria ochroleuca

 

Apatite rock

 

Apatite rock

 

Apatite ?????? offices in Kirovsk showing formula for mineral on building wall

 

Arctostaphylos alpinus Arctic Bearberry

 

Arctostaphylos alpinus Arctic Bearberry with berries also various lichens

 

Bartsia alpina Alpine Bartsia

 

Betula nana Dwarf birch showing orange autumn colour

 

Betula nana Dwarf Birch showing bright red autumn colour

 

Betula pubescens ssp cherepanowii forest

 

Shrubs in Birch forest

 

Brambling

 

Cetraria cuculata

 

Cetraria islandica

 

Cetraria nivalis

 

Cetraria nivalis

 

Cetraria nivalis and Rhacomitrium

 

Cirsium heterophyllum Melancholy Thistle

 

Cladonia botrytes (brown topped lichen in the centre)

 

Lichen community including Cladonia coccifera

 

Cladonia coccifera

 

Cladonia stellaris Racomitrium sp Cetraria islandica

 

Cladonia stellaris Vaccinium uliginosum

 

Cladonia stellaris Cladonia sp.

 

Cladonia stellaris Vaccinium uliginosum

 

Possibly Climacocystis borealis but could easily be something else

 

Cornus suecica Dwarf Cornel

 

Derelict factory buildings awaiting redevelopment Kirovsk

 

Derelict factory buildings awaiting redevelopment Kirovsk

 

Diapensia lapponica

 

Diphasiastrum alpinum Alpine Clubmoss

 

Empetrum nigrum ssp. hermaphroditum Crowberry

 

Fire engine

 

Flats Kirovsk with snow

 

Galega orientalis

 

Geology museum Kirovsk

 

Asbestos Long-fibrous rock sample

 

Gnaphalium norvegicum

 

Gymnocarpium dryopteris Oak Fern

 

Gymnocarpium dryopteris Oak Fern

 

Haematomma blood-eye lichen

 

Haematomma sp. (check)

 

Haematomma sp. (check)

 

Haematomma sp. (check)

 

Harrimanella hypnoides Moss Heather

 

Harrimanella hypnoides Moss Heather

 

Harrimanella hypnoides Moss Heather

 

Heracleum sosnowskyi

 

Hieracium laticeps

 

Juncus trifidus Three-leaved Rush

 

Khibini mountains with green leaves on the birch trees and snow on the higher slopes

 

Khibini mountains with green leaves on the birch trees and snow on the higher slopes

 

Kirovsk town with blocks of flats

 

Kirovsk town with blocks of flats

 

Kirovsk town with blocks of flats

 

Lake Bolshoi Vudyavr Kirovsk

 

Lake Bolshoi Vudyavr Kirovsk

 

Lake Malii Vudyavr with Birch trees starting to turn yellow

 

Linnaea borealis Twinflower

 

Mountain aapa fen Malyi Vud'javr lake valley

 

Marchantia polymorpha (now M. latifolia)

 

Matteuccia struthiopteris

 

Mountain severely damaged by mining

 

Nepheline syenite with black probably aegirine insertion

 

Old derelict station Kirovsk

 

Small stream with Oxyria digyna Mountain Sorrel and Geranium sylvaticum

 

Oxytropis sordida

 

Persicaria vivipara Alpine Bistort

 

Phyllodoce caerulea Blue Heath

 

Picea obovata with cones

 

Polar-Alpine Botanic Garden The Kolsky Branch of the Academy of Sciences

 

Polar-Alpine Botanic Garden The Kolsky Branch of the Academy of Sciences

 

Polytrichum sp

 

Redpoll

 

Rhacomitrium lanuginosum (left) and Rhacomitrium canescens (right) check

 

Rhacomitrium sp.

 

Rhacomitrium moss being overgrown by lichen Cetraria

 

Salix glauca

 

Salix glauca

 

Salix lanata

 

Salix polaris

 

Saxifraga aizoides Yellow Saxifrage

 

Saxifraga cernua Drooping Saxifrage

 

Selaginella selaginoides Lesser Clubmoss

 

Solorina crocea (green lichen in centre of picture)

 

Sphagnum with very small rosettes

 

Stereocaulon sp.

 

Stream running through botanic garden

 

Thamnolia vermicularis

 

Thamnolia vermicularis

 

Variable height tree line in the Khibiny mountains

 

Going down through the treeline with mixed shrubs birch and willow

 

Tundra birch forest and snow on Khibini mountains

 

Tundra birch forest and snow on Khibini mountains

 

Tundra community with lichens and Arctostaphylos alpinus Arctic Bearberry

 

Arctostaphylos alpinus Arctic Bearberry also lichens Alectoria nigricans on left and Alectoria ochroleuca on right

 

Tundra community with mixed lichens mosses and dwarf shrubs

 

Area of low shrub tundra in birch forest

 

Area of low shrub tundra in birch forest

 

Umbelicaria sp (right) and Andreaea rupestris (left)

 

Vaccinium uliginosum Bog Bilberry

 

Vaccinium uliginosum and Cetraria nivalis

 

Vaccinium vitis-idaea Cowberry

 

Vaccinium vitis-idaea Cowberry

 

White wagtail

 

Sandy spring Orlovskoye Polesye National Park

 

Orlovskoye Polesye National Park

 

Amanita muscaria Fly Agaric

 

Leptinotarsa decemlineata Colorado Beetle

 

Wooden scaffolding on church

 

Station at Petrozavodsk

 



 



 



 

Abandoned house National Park Russian North

 

Artist Kirillo-Belozerskii monastery

 

Clavariadelphus truncatus

 

Clavariadelphus truncatus

 

Coprinus disseminatus Fairy inkcap

 

Cortinarius

 

Docks Cherepovets

 

Feropontov monastery

 

Fish skeleton on beach

 

Froth on beach

 

Froth on beach

 

Gomphidius glutinosus Slimy spike

 

Gyromitra ambigua (?)

 

Helvella elastica Elastic saddle

 

Hericium coralloides Coral Tooth

 

Iiinskaya church

 

Iiinskaya church

 

Iiinskaya church

 

Iiinskaya church

 

Iiinskaya church

 

Kirillo-Belozerskii monastery

 

Kirillo-Belozerskii monastery

 

Kirillo-Belozerskii monastery

 

Kirillo-Belozerskii monastery

 

Kirillo-Belozerskii monastery

 

Kirillo-Belozerskii monastery

 

Lycopodium annotinum Interrupted Clubmoss

 

Macrolepiota Parasol mushroom

 

Macrotyphula fistulosa Pipe Club

 

Mycena haematopus Burgundydrop Bonnet

 

Patterns in the sand

 

Patterns in the sand

 

Pholiota squarrosa Shaggy Scalycap

 

Picea forest Boreal forest Taiga

 

Poplar with autumn colour

 

Poplar with autumn colour

 

Rainbow

 

Russian windmill

 

Salix resisting beach erosion

 

Sand martin nests in cliff (?)

 

Shells

 

Soil profile

 

Stropharia hornemannii (?)

 

Tricholoma stiparophyllum (?)

 

Tyre and tracks on the beach

 

Tyre and tracks on the beach

 

Vologodskoe kruzhevo (lace)

 

Vologodskoe kruzhevo (lace)

 

Wooden chapel in forest near Goritsy

 

Wooden houses National Park Russian North

 

Wooden houses National Park Russian North

 

Glory of the Pilot round the shadow of aircraft

 

Albatrellus ovinus

 

BBQ fire

 

BBQ fire

 

Boletus pinophilus Pine Bolete

 

Boletus pinophilus Pine Bolete

 

Cantharellus cibarius Chanterelle

 

Cladonia mitis (?)

 

Cladonia rangiferina

 

Cladonia stellaris

 

Cortinarius bolaris Dappled Webcap

 

Cortinarius semisanguineus Surprise Webcap (?)

 

Crucibulum laeve Common Bird's Nest

 

Fireplace in the games room with fire burning in grate

 

Fomitopsis pinicola Red-belted bracket (?)

 

Helvella macropus Felt Saddle

 

Hericium cirrhatum Tiered Tooth

 

Hydnum rufescens Terracotta Hedgehog

 

Imatra

 

Leccinum aurantiacum

 

Leccinum versipelle Orange Birch Bolete

 

Lichen covered forest floor

 

Peltigera aphthosa

 

Pholiota squarrosa Shaggy Scalycap

 

Picea forest Boreal forest Taiga

 

Pinus sylvestris Scots Pine

 

Puumala

 

Ramaria

 

Summer houses in forest

 

Sunrise Imatra Finland

 

Sunrise Imatra Finland

 

Sunrise Imatra Finland

 

Sunrise Imatra Finland

 

Sunrise Imatra Finland

 

Sunrise Imatra Finland

 

Sunrise Imatra Finland

 

Vaccinium vitis-idaea Cowberry

 

Wenno boat Puumala

 

Wooden church Ruokolahti

 

Wooden church Puumala

 

Wooden church Puumala

 

Wooden windmill in Finland

 

Wooden windmill in Finland