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Young Russia

Celebrating the voice and vision of a new creative generation. This is Russia’s Gen Z: their words, their photos, their stories

Style

From fashion to
design, this is how Russia’s Gen Z want themselves to be seen

Portfolio

A visual portrait of young Russia in all its radical diversity

Podcast

In-depth discussions with leading experts and academics, from urbanism and fashion, to feminism and film

Portraits of Russia

Emerging photographers capture the faces of a young nation

Landscapes of Russia

Panoramas and city views from the largest nation on Earth

Curated

The ultimate guide to emerging Russian artists, selected by leading experts

Self

Tales of identity and belonging from Russia’s new creative generation

Exploration

Stories that traverse the mountains, lakes, cities, and steppe of the largest nation on earth

Celebrating the voice and vision of a new creative generation. This is Russia’s Gen Z: their words, their photos, their stories

The ultimate guide to emerging Russian artists, selected by leading experts

Young Russia

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The Ringing Trace: capturing the invisible legacy of a Soviet nuclear catastrophe

Exploration

The Ringing Trace: capturing the invisible legacy of a Soviet nuclear catastrophe

Letter from Velichka: an unlikely Eden for Russia’s Roma community

Exploration

Letter from Velichka: an unlikely Eden for Russia’s Roma community

Radio romance: the hidden lives of amateur radio enthusiasts and the power of DIY connection

Exploration

Radio romance: the hidden lives of amateur radio enthusiasts and the power of DIY connection

Cat person: photographing feline love

Exploration

Cat person: photographing feline love

Searching for ritual and connection inside family photo albums

Self

Searching for ritual and connection inside family photo albums

Carving a space for Russia’s threatened wooden architecture

Exploration

Carving a space for Russia’s threatened wooden architecture

Self

Portraits of Russia: emerging photographers capture the faces of a young nation

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Searching for ritual and connection inside family photo albums

After a head injury, one man uses photography to separate mirage from reality in small town Russia

Portraits of Russia: emerging photographers capture the faces of a young nation

‘A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself’: meet the artists pioneering plant-based sound

Tea cups and pickle jars: after moving to Uganda, one Russian photographer recaptures a sense of home

Dagestan’s youth are fighting for their right to self-expression

Enter the world of VasyaRun, Russia’s most mysterious art project

The skin I live in: one artist explores why we bite our nails and pull at our hair

Like a Girl: a photographer’s exploration of the complex nature of Russian femininity

A photographer’s spiritual Siberian homecoming

5 Russian wellness influencers to follow that rejuvenate body and mind

Cardinal sin: a photographic exploration of sexuality and religion

Exploration

Landscapes of Russia: panoramas and cityviews from the largest nation on Earth

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The Ringing Trace: capturing the invisible legacy of a Soviet nuclear catastrophe

Letter from Velichka: an unlikely Eden for Russia’s Roma community

Radio romance: the hidden lives of amateur radio enthusiasts and the power of DIY connection

Cat person: photographing feline love

Carving a space for Russia’s threatened wooden architecture

Behind the bookshelves: life in Russia’s village libraries

In Taganrog, daily rituals and a patchwork community unite a city marketplace

Russia’s radical knitwear brands

The magical restaurants of the Moscow suburbs

Siberia-based photographer Roma Gostev captures the snow-coated serenity of his city Nizhnevartovsk

Dream or dystopia? Take an immersive journey into life off the grid

Landscapes of Russia: panoramas and cityviews from the largest nation on Earth

Style

Family Weekend: the fashion film using the surreal, camp and childish to explore reality

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Gen Z’s great escape

Bogdan Shirokov wants to escape

Finding home with Russian-Kurdish fashion brand Vertigo

East of the West: Dmitry Ermakov captures a generation reclaiming their Tatar identity — in photos

Clay, chaos and urban detritus merge in Daniil Antropov’s ceramic sculptures

Beyond reality: the surreal digital universe capturing the madness of Russia’s modern visual culture

Samara state of mind: one photographer’s journey to bring Instagram #success to provincial Russia

Verses of extinction: one Buryatian artist’s attempt to keep her native language alive

Laser focus: capturing unseen dimensions with photographer Jenia Filatova

PASHA: the anonymous art project on growing up gay in the Soviet Union

Tree Lover: one Muscovite’s ode to the fragments of nature that survive the urban wilds

Reviving ancient Udmurtian traditions with post-internet art

Exploration

Gen Z’s Polina Osipova is reimagining Russia’s indigineous cultures for a digital age

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Finding home with Russian-Kurdish fashion brand Vertigo

Nensi Avetisian: the fashion brand fusing monumental spiritual architecture and sustainability

The Russian makeup artists using beauty as a tool for radical transformation

CH4RM: the brand reinventing Russian provincial glamour for the post-internet age

Tiger Forgives: the brand creating fetish wear to express unseen personalities

Meet Misha Fedoseev, the photographer taking fashion shoots out to the streets of Moscow

Family Weekend: the fashion film using the surreal, camp and childish to explore reality

Blending modesty and modern design through contemporary Islamic attire

Agasshin is the beauty zine giving Russians of colour the front page

Aloe is the St Petersburg eco-collective fighting for true connection in the era of instant connectivity

Enter the surreal world of Yumzhana Suy, the Buryatian artist fusing activism and Buddhism

Meet the political fashion collective giving young Russians a voice

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