#TheGeographyOfRussia inspires

The participants of the #TheGeographyOfRussia contest have filled social networks with picturesque photos, poetic lines, historical facts, interesting stories about the natural sights of the regions of our country. We were reading piercing posts with pleasure, admiring the wonderful pictures and, finally, decided on the names of the best of the best. 

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Photo from Instagram by Julia Vasilyeva
Photo from Instagram by Julia Vasilyeva

Our first winner, Julia Vasilieva, has published in Instagram pictures of Lake Verkhny Kardyvach in the Caucasus Mountains, and she explained why that place was special for her. «We had been climbing for 2 days to a height of 2.5 km to see this turquoise icy surface ", - Julia tells. Together with her, we were amazed at the meetings with the cubs and practically felt the aroma of the mountain flowers.

 

Natalia Hamina shared her art therapy method in Facebook social network. She is our second winner. In her pictures there are the Eastern Sayans, in the text there is an ode to the landscapes close to her heart. «THE MOUNTAINS!!! Their silence is so eloquent… Endless expanses and valleys, alpine meadows, beauty, which is difficult to express in words ..only admire endlessly…», - Natali writes.
 

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Photo by Dmitry Fedorishchev
Photo by Dmitry Fedorishchev

Dmitry Fedorishchev collected in Vkontakte a whole literary bouquet and gave it to Tarusa. Dmitri shows the views of this city of the Kaluga region to the subscribers, quotes the statements of famous writers about the town. "Perhaps, there were no such typically and touchingly Russian in its landscape places near Moscow. For many years Tarusa was, as it were, a reserve of this landscape amazing for its lyrical strength, diversity and softness," – the author Quotes Konstantin Paustovsky. Dmitry is our third prize winner.

From the bottom of the heart we congratulate winners! Thank you for the inspiration and love for the Motherland. Rewarding the best participants of the social networks contest will take place on the Day of the Russian Geographical Society at the Exhibition of National Economic Achievements on t he 15th at 17:15. See you!