Vladimir Putin gets away from it all in Siberia: in pictures ‘It was a very brief, but very eventful trip,’ according to presidential spokesman.

Russian President Vladimir Putin enjoyed a few days of swimming, fishing, sunbathing and more while holidaying in southern Siberia last week.

On his first R&R visit to Siberia, Putin also hiked through dense forest, went on an hours-long underwater dive in chase of pike and rode a quadricycle through the mountains, Russian news agency TASS reported Saturday, citing presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

“He chased a pike for two hours before eventually hitting it,” he said. “It was a very brief, but very eventful trip.”

Fortunately, Putin also remembered to take photos and video footage with a GoPro camera and a drone, including while spearfishing in a diving suit and snorkeling mask.

The Kremlin will release the footage on Monday, first on television stations and later on its website, Peskov said.

POLITICO put together a glimpse of Putin in the wild to tide readers over until then.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L), accompanied by Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu in the remote Tuva region in southern Siberia. All pictures taken between August 1 and 3, 2017 | Photo by Alexey Nikolsky/AFP via Getty Images

Photo by Alexey Nikolsky/AFP via Getty Images

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Photo by Alexey Nikolsky/AFP via Getty Images

Photo by Alexey Nikolsky/AFP via Getty Images

Photo by Alexey Nikolsky/AFP via Getty Images