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Man in Mask (combatant of the Alpha group, an elite Russian counter-terrorism unit, that belongs to special-purpose forces of the FSB)
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Snowscape
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Painting, Border Guard Service of Russia base
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Seascape
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Painting, Border Guard Service of Russia base
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Hammer and Sickle monument, Vinogradnoe
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Shooting range, Border Guard Service of Russia base
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Helmets left after a training session by combatants of the Alpha group, an elite Russian counter-terrorism unit, that belongs to special-purpose forces of the FSB, Border Guard Service of Russia base, Kaliningrad region.
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Mountain, signed "Arkhangelsk 00-02 Autumn"
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Soldiers carrying out public works, Korzunovo
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The Border, Russian side
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Cabin, PSKR Rubin
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Kabardinka harbour
Maria Gruzdeva
The Borders of Russia
This is a documentary photographic study of the Russian border, the longest national border in the world, and the military community of the Border Guard Service of Russia, tasked with the defence and patrol of the Russian border.
The project has taken an approach of an ethnographical journey, an investigation of the political and cultural symbols we naturally or artificially embed in the surrounding landscapes to mark the territory with what relates to or signifies our identity. This project is an examination into the subject of what constitutes modern Russia's identity in its most disturbed areas, where these symbols are most evident.
Email: mashagruzdeva@googlemail.com