Kolsky | Awarded Project - PhMuseum

Kolsky

  • Artists Olga and Alexey in their apartment in Murmansk. The couple dreams of leaving Kolsky to find better jobs. Now they work as entertainers in restaurants and at events. On cardboard paper in the background it is written: “The circus burned down, the clowns are still here. Help.”

  • Student Valentin poses in self-made armor at hill Gorelaya. He planned to build a military career after his service in the army, but he got injured and after surgery was not able to continue.

  • In Murmansk, a city with a population of 300,000 people  there are only three underground passages. All of them were built during Soviet times.

  • Tatiana, member of the communist party, in her apartment. According to the survey made in March 2019, seventy percent of Russian respondents think that Stalin played a positive role in the history of Russia.

  • Garages and a heating station pipe in Roslyakovo. Roslyakovo was closed military city until 2015, now it is part of the bigger city Murmansk.

  • A rare moment of no rain and no snow, when locals can dry their linen outside, Murmansk.

  • Valya dreams of studying in a military school to become a paratrooper. He swims three or four times a week in Semyonovskoye lake, despite the weather conditions.

  • The doors of a Christian church in Teriberka, which is closed as it is in a state of disrepair.

  • Veterinary doctor Nadezda with one of her four snakes at her apartment in Olenegorsk city. In several years her husband will finish working in the military and they will be able to move to the south of Russia, where they bought a house.

  • Shamil sits at his apartment’s balcony where he lives with his mother. He graduated from Murmansk Marine Fishing College, but after being subject to hazing and mistreatment on a sea vessel, he decided not to associate his life with working at the sea.

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