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Flowers bloom from the hands of students on the first day of school on Kunashir. After the 1994 earthquake, which crumpled fa...
Students take accordion lessons.
Military demonstration
Japanese visiting graves.
Japanese visiting graves.
Japanese visiting graves...ancestors, candle, flowers, grave, japan, Kuril Islands, Kurils, mourning, National Geographic, of...
The Japanese return, if only for a day, to tend the overgrown graves of their ancestors. On Shikotan, Setsu Nitta leaves offe...
Local hot spot, a thermal pool draws a crowd on Kunashir. Nature provides some of hte few luxuries in the Kurils, where many ...
Hot springs in Kunishir
Rosinka hot springs in Lisnaya River.
Hot Springs
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Above politics (and below the photographer's helicopter) Kudryavyy volcano sends out signals proclaiming true wilderness 3,23...
A laboratory for hardy scientists, the crater bay on uninhabited Yankicha teems with marine life, the product of an unusual e...
An aerial view of Yankicha Island, part of the Kuril Islands in Russia.
An aerial view of Yankicha Island, part of the Kuril Islands in Russia.
An aerial view of Yankicha Island, part of the Kuril Islands in Russia.
Vegitation grows from the volcanic ash on Iturup, part of the Kuril Islands in Russia.
A Pacific Salmon swims upriver. Kuril Islands, Russia.
A Pacific Salmon swims upriver. Kuril Islands, Russia.