Russia 2008

Photos by Adam Jones

These photos were taken on a month-long trip to Russia in May-June 2008.

Gallery 23: Tobolsk

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A view over the Vagai River from the Tobolsk kremlin.

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Looking over the oddball old town of Tobolsk (see subsequent photos),
with new construction underway in the foreground, attesting to the building boom that has
accompanied the oil windfall in many Siberian cities.

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This photo and following: Tobolsk's old town is in a quite extraordinary, and
picturesque, state of dilapidation and disrepair, though most of the churches are being restored.

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Photo by Griselda Ramírez.

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Back in the new town of Tobolsk: evidence that socialist realism
never died; it just turned into bank advertisements. I couldn't decide if this was meant
to be kitsch, or to evoke past greatness -- perhaps both.

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This photo and following: headstones in Tobolsk's tiny Jewish cemetery.

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