From a mine to a nuclear icebreaker: 10 PHOTOS of hard labor
Photographer Slava Stepanov traveled from the remote Arctic village of Tiksi to the pink lakes of Altai, capturing the people who create, with their own hands, light, heat and metal for this vast country.
1. ‘RES’ is the main electric grid enterprise of Novosibirsk Region.
2. Barentsburg Mine. The world's northernmost coal mine.
3. Tiksi, an airport beyond the Arctic Circle.
4. Nazarovsky Coal Mine, Krasnoyarsk Krai.
5. Bursol, Altai Krai. Salt mining in a pink lake.
6. Chayanda (oil and gas condensate) field in Yakutia.
7. ‘Amurstal’, a metallurgical plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
8. The nuclear icebreaker ‘Sibir’ plowing the northern seas.
9. ‘Metrovagonmash’, a subway train factory,Moscow Region.
10. Construction of an MS-21 aircraft in Irkutsk.