I have never done such posts before, but on the last day of the outgoing year, I decided to tell you about important events for me that have happened in the last three hundred and sixty-five days of my life. Unfortunately, I haven't written anything here for a long time — a lot of interesting events happened, and I just didn't have time to tell and show everything, so this post is not only a summary, but also some kind of announcement for the future.
Despite the global pandemic, I managed to travel, although my two planned trips to Turkey were canceled, and I did not get on a short trip to Serbia due to lack of time. So this year I mostly had travels in Russia, but still not only.
One of the first big trips of this year was a trip to the north of Russia: in our car we got from Moscow to Teriberka — a village in the Murmansk region on the shores of the Barents Sea. Approximately 5,500 kilometers round trip.
Sunset on the beach "Dinosaur eggs" near the end point of the trip - Teriberka. Despite the bad weather, the sun still appeared in the evening.
The road to Teriberka ran through many interesting places.
For example, the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery on the shore of Lake Siverskoye, within the town of Kirillov, Vologda region.
And this is the Kizhi Museum-Reserve — a masterpiece of Russian wooden architecture. On the way to it, we flew off the road, and later at sunset without skis or snowshoes we tried to get along the frozen Onega Lake closer to the island on which the Kizhi Museum was located, and got a little stuck in the snow :)
A little later, having bought snowshoes, we moved to Kandalaksha town, Murmansk region. We climbed the Volosyanaya hill with its strange snow-covered fir trees twisted in the wind. We arrived there in March, the snow was already melting and the tree branches were beginning to bare. I'll tell you a secret: we decided to return there in February 2022 and live for a few days right at the top and try to see the northern lights over completely snow-covered trees.
Well, this year we saw the northern lights in the small port near the village of Ura-Guba in the Murmansk region.
We returned back through the Arkhangelsk region. This is the Church of St. John Chrysostom near the town of Kargopol.
Last winter, we did not forget to travel around the neighborhood close to home. Winter fog is beautiful even in the absence of sunlight.
New Jerusalem Monastery in the Istra town, Moscow Region, which was founded in 1656 by Patriarch Nikon. Cold but beautiful!
I really like to play board games, and this spring I began to learn how to paint miniatures. Playing with painted figures is more interesting, and creativity gives new emotions!
In the summer we went to Suzdal, an ancient town in the Vladimir region with many well-preserved old churches.
And on the way back we stopped at the village of Bogolyubovo to look at one of my favorite churches — the Church of the Intercession on the Nerl. We saw a beautiful sunset there.
Three of my photographs this summer were featured in an open-air exhibition dedicated to the beautiful island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands that we visited a couple of years ago. It was nice to remember this trip.
Our search squad "Soyuz" continued to search for planes that crashed during the World War II. At this place, near the village of Barsuki in the Kaluga region, a long-range IL-4 bomber crashed. Three crew members were killed, one survived and was taken prisoner.
One of the main events and trips of this year was the longest expedition in my life. Also in Russia, about seven weeks of flights: Moscow, Khabarovsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Anadyr and several small settlements, almost the entire ALSIB route along which the Lendlease aircraft flew from the Bering Strait to Baikal.
I saw these places as part of a joint expedition of the Russian Geographical Society, the Center for Contemporary History and the Ministry of Defense of Russia. The purpose of the expedition was to survey the airfields of the air route between Alaska (USA) and the USSR, built and launched in 1942.
On this huge Mi-26 helicopter, we flew about 8000 kilometers.
The expedition began on the Chukotka Peninsula, the farthest point of the route in Russia was the village of Novoye Chaplino. This is the real end of the earth where Eskimo whalers live.
And in this photo you can see the village of Tomtor in the Oymyakonsky ulus of Yakutia region. Not far from there is Oymyakon, one of the "Poles of Cold". The officially recognized minimum temperature recorded by the Oymyakon meteorological station is -67.7°C.
We were there on September 1st and it was about 10 degrees below zero at night. It was not very warm in the tent :) I took a lot of photos there. I will tell you more about this expedition later.
After a long break, I started playing the Splinterlands game again and started drawing again. I drew such a lion for the Splinterlands contest.
The next mini-expedition this year took me to the shores of the Barents Sea again. We examined the current state of the Russky Lighthouse on Bolshoy Oleniy Island, Murmansk Oblast. Instead of two planned days, the expedition lasted for a week — for several days the weather did not allow to go to the open sea.
And in early December, @kibela and I went to the Crimea near Yalta town, to examine another lighthouse — Ai-Todorsky, one of the oldest lighthouses in the Black Sea, located on the southernmost spur of Cape Ai-Todor. Even though it was December, it was still much warmer there than at home :)
The year ended unexpectedly not in Russia — we went to Egypt to go on a dive safari in the north of the Red Sea. We saw many underwater beauties ...
... and underwater inhabitants. Thousands of colorful fish, moray eels, and even several times we met dolphins.
And most importantly, I finally fulfilled my dream and saw the wrecked ship SS Thistlegorm. Here is @kibela hovering over huge propeller of the ship.
It has been an interesting year. More details will come later :)
Until then ...
Happy New Year 2022 everyone! May it bring only positive emotions to all of us, give us the opportunity to travel freely again, may we jointly triumph in the fight against viruses. Let everything will be alright!
It's better to watch photos in high resolution.
Camera: OLYMPUS E-M1 Mark II, OLYMPUS OM-D E-M5 Mark II, DJI Mavic 2 Pro and my smartphone :)
You can also see my photos in my blog LJ and in my profile on NatGeo. You can read a short interview with me here.
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You did a good job in 2021 :)
I tried very hard :))
Great job! Beautiful photos, congrats on this one! Wish You even better 2022!
Many thanks!
I wish you a wonderful year too and a happy life in Poland! And continue to delight us with your beautiful photos :)
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YAY so great to see you back. What a great recap. I am so excited to see posts about your dive trip to Egypt. So cool! That is great you are playing Splinterlands and your drawing is awesome. Happy New Year Denis.
Thank you Sara :)
The diving was really fantastic. Hopefully I can edit these photos as early as possible.
I wish you a great year!
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Incredible pictures, well done, quite a lot for 2021 :) All the best in 2022!
Many thanks! :)
And all the best to you this year!
Wow, you had such a wonderful year with your Travels. Good that you did not stop yourself in the name of Covid. Beautiful pictures
Oh, I myself did not expect and was very happy to travel again, at least to some extent. I miss it a lot :) Thank you!
Beautiful…
Thanks for sharing these highlights from your last year.
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Your pictures just blew me away. Such a diverse set of great shots 👍😀
I especially liked the polar lights 😀
Many thanks! I love the polar lights, and I will definitely have more photos with it :)
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а мне написать такой пост не удалось. и в прошлом году не смог, и в этом тоже... хотя бы порадуюсь вашему.
Большое спасибо! Зато вы в целом посты регулярнее пишете, чем я нынче - это важнее :)
даааа уж.... нет, регулярность теперь не про меня -- с декабря у меня с этим проблемы. 1-2 раза в неделю, не больше. но согласен, если каждый день о себе напоминать, то рост происходит гораздо лучше! хыхы.
Пару раз в неделю всё же лучше чем раз в месяц, как у меня с сентября-октября)
В любом случае, пишем, пока нам хочется что-то сказать-показать - и хорошо.
ps. с нашим гнусно-коротким световым днем... я камеру по-прежнему ношу с собой, но одной ночной фотографией сыт не будешь, а днем не пофоткать, я ж работаю. да и солнечных дней почти нет. поэтому нет и свежих фотографий. в музеи и прочие хорошие места без (.....) не зайдешь теперь. поэтому у меня все скучно, свежачка нет, и ничто не вдохновляет на посты. остаётся только старое перетряхивать. вот поэтому и постов так негусто.... у вас в этом смысле все офигенно!
да, отличный год вышел, в целом. грех жаловаться! !BEER
Да, световой день пролетает незаметно. Я пока дома, тоже никуда особенно на фотосъёмки не выбираюсь, и поездок обрабатываю только. Не стали прививаться?
Вообще, архивы перетряхивать полезно и интересно. У меня много всякого, чего я сам ещё не видел, не то что кто-то другой) Может и у вас такие есть? Вот только с текстами хуже, вспомнить места, обстоятельства, ощущения - проблематичнее...
Нет, не стал. И жена не стала, и дочь не стали. Всем нам и без С-19 есть чем поболеть (увы). Дать организму поболеть ослабленной версией болезни, с тем чтобы иммунная система научилась распознаватать гадость и приобрела знание как с ней бороться - это прекрасно, умно, предусмотрительно!... но в наших дуболомно-стоеросовых условиях превращается во что? да, тот самый стеклянный х.й, который дурак непременно разобьет. Ну, замнём для ясности :Р
Осенью я проводил мою дочку и "стайку родственников" до Эрмитажа - сфоткал как они на входе машут своими листочками, без которых никуда не войтить... Сам, естественно, войти не мог. Летом прошлого года обнаружил, что в Петропавловке в Музее Денег появился клёвый мастер-класс - они восстановили классическую технологию изготовления бумаги с водяным знаком, с водяной мельницей, ситечком, и вот все это. Мне ужасно, ужасно захотелось все это попробовать. Можно сказать, в список "хотелок от жизни" добавилась новая строчка. Но не зайти, хрен там. В общем, начал испытывать дискриминацию этого орднунга на своей шкуре, пока не во всей его красе, но дальше в лес -- все будет гуще, я оптимист.
Насчет архивов: конечно, есть. До фига есть. Но раньше я хуже снимал, и не в равы, да и обрабатывать жипеги я уже обленился :). А главное, возбуждают в основном свежие снимки. С глаз долой - и не сильно хочется что-то публиковать из бывшего, ушедшего в прошлое. Как-то так. Странно, но факт.
Понятно. Да, система всего этого у нас (да и много где) такая себе...
Нам для поездок нужно было, ну и просто на всякий случай - мы привились. Вроде и не болели ни разу. Можем ходить везде, но я пользуюсь этим редко в последнее время, как-то никуда особо и не тянет, а в магазины и в гости всё равно, к счастью, пока без кодов пускают)
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