This is a photo session from a miner’s village in Russia. These photos are made nowadays though when watching them it might seem that they are made in the previous century.

A few days ago in Russian newspapers there was an article that 25% of Russian families sometimes experience lack of the money to buy simple bread, and I suppose that more than 40% of families live in the similar conditions, especially in countryside, and the same time in major cities there is a class of very rich people, buying Ferraris and soccer players for their teams worth of tens millions dollars.

photographed by Alexander Schekmenev