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The stories in this section will bring you closer to some the people and places we come across on our journey. We hope you will take the time to view these images and gain a deeper insight into the people and a greater appreciation of the land. By presenting these stories as stand alone features we hope they will have greater impact and a flow of their own.
The Lighthouse Keeper

Like his father before him, Vasily Ivanovich Ilchenko tends the lighthouse at the tip of Tokarevsky Cape.



The Truck Driver

A long-haul trucker for more than a third of his thirty years, Zhenya's view of life is as simple as "take it as it comes".


The 'chewing gum wars'

Larisa Fedotova is one of the new generation of marketing and sales executives trying to establish and broaden channels of distribution for the new flood of consumer products.


The Last Jews of Birobidzhan

Facing a dismal economic future, Birobidzhan's small Jewish community struggles to maintain a cultural revival begun in the late 1980s.



Lenin Street

A glimpse of life along a busy Chita thoroughfare.


Gentleman Farmer
Slaughter and Feast
Buddist Prayer Ceremony

Gary and Lisa spend three days with a Buryat family as it explores new economic opportunities and the return of religous and cultural freedoms.


Exploring Lake Baikal

Gary and Lisa join a scientific expedition to collect mollusks and plankton from the World's largest fresh water lake.


Living Gay in Russia
Go Girl!

A visit into Russia's gay subculture and an unusual "show".



Revolution Square

The sound of voices raised in protest can be heard in Chelyabinsk's Revolution Square. And they are calling for a new revolution.


A Soldier's Story

The words of a dead soldier from Chechnya's battlefield are heard through the memories of his family and in his last letters.



The Godfather of Russian Rap

Rapper, Hare Krishna devotee, rock/jazz drummer, vegetarian: MD&C Pavlov is an unprecedented blend sprouted in the artistic hothouse that is modern Moscow.


100 Years of Revolution

One family's hundred year odyssey through Russian history as told through five generations of the Maria Mikhailovna Gurevich family.



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