Most Beautiful Country

Eruption of Klyuchevskaya Sopka. Photo by: Vladimir Voychuk, a finalist of the III Photo Contest
Eruption of Klyuchevskaya Sopka. Photo by: Vladimir Voychuk, a finalist of the III Photo Contest

Submission of entries to the IV Photo Contest of the Russian Geographical Society, the Most Beautiful Country,  will end in less than a month, on March 31. Share photos about your journeys around Russia with the citizens of our country and the whole world!

Photos may be submitted at photo.rgo.ru. Sign up and upload your photos till March 31, 2018. Each entrant is allowed to provide a maximum of 25 photos. 

The Most Beautiful Country Photo Contest is a large-scale media project of the Russian Geographical Society, aimed at preserving the nature of Russia and promoting an attitude of care towards the environment. The first photo contest was held in 2015 and it has become an annual event since 2016.

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Manpupuner. Photo by Segey Makurin, a finalist of the III Photo Contest
Manpupuner. Photo by Segey Makurin, a finalist of the III Photo Contest

There are no age or location limits to enter the contest. The main condition is that photos submitted to the contest should have been taken in the territory of Russia.

Photos of finalists and winners of the Most Beautiful Country are successfully exhibited all over the world. One can admire pictures in parks, culture centers and at festivals. In 2017 about 7 million people visited such exhibitions. Moreover, the project was highlighted on First TV Channel.

Each year we have new contest categories. And at the same time the most popular categories like “Landscape”, “Wild animals”, “Underwater world” and “Cultural Heritage” remain. The list of categories is here. 

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Hidden. Photo by Denis Budkov, the winner of the III Photo Contest
Hidden. Photo by Denis Budkov, the winner of the III Photo Contest

In 2018 the Jury is made up by:

President of the Russian Geographical Society Sergey Shoygu, Director General of Pervy Kanal TV Channel, producer and film director Konstantin Ernst, the film director and screenwriter Andrey Konchalovsky, Director of the Tretyakov Gallery, Russian art expert Zelfira Tregulova, the artist and sculptor Dashi Namdakov, photographers Ivan Kurinnoy, Denis Budkov, Andrey Narchuk. Chairman of the Jury is the wildlife photographer Sergey Gorshkov.  

Photographs will first be selected by independent experts consisting of famous photographers and heads of Russia’s leading photo agencies.

Join a team of photographers of the Russian Geographical Society. Discover Russia new. Together.

Winners will get prizes and their photos will see the whole country.

 

Visit the website of the Contest.