Posts Tagged "siberia"
Russia-NYC Series 39
Russia-NYC Photo Series 7
Zhenya was wearing a NYC shirt while practicing extreme biking in a sport center in Krasnoyarsk, a Siberian city 2,000 miles (3,200km) from Moscow. Zhenya said he bought the shirt during a trip to NYC for a break dancing competition. He said he started breakdancing when he was in kindergarden and that it's now popular in his school. His school break dancing team has won a few championships in Russia, he said.
Russia-NYC Photo Series 3
A portrait of the young girl from the Russian Arctic peninsula of Yamal sporting her "I ❤️NY" winter hat.
Russia-NYC Photo Series 2
These girls are Khanti, one of the native Siberian ethnic groups, and they live on Yamal peninsula, a slither of Russia on the Arctic circle that is the gas equivalent of Saudi Arabia. These girls were attending a local annual festival and were dressed in ethnic clothing...except for their hats. The one on the left is wearing a winter cap with the words: "I ❤️ NY."