April 22, 2011. The Yuri Korchagin oil field is an offshore oil field in the Russian sector of the North Caspian Sea. The oil field is located 180 kilometres from Astrakhan and 240 kilometres from Makhachkala at a sea depth of 11–13 metres. The oil field is owned and operated by Lukoil Nizhnevolzhskneft, a subsidiary of Lukoil company. Pictured: offshore platform in the Yuri Korchagin oil field.
 

April 11, 2011. Launch of Russia`s Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Pictured: transportation of the Soyuz TMA-21 to the launching pad.
 

April 08, 2011. MARS 500 Simulated Mars Mission Project. MARS-500 is a ground-based experiment simulating manned flight to Mars.During the mission investigators-volunteers live and work in the special complex, communicating with the outer world only by means of e-mail. Pictured: MARS 500 Project training facility at the Institute of Medical and Biological Studies in Moscow.
 

April 08, 2011. Gagarin Research&Test Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) is a Russian training facility responsible for training cosmonauts for their space missions. It is the first cosmonaut training facility and home of the largest of three cosmonaut units in Russia.It is located in Star City near Moscow. Pictured: cosmonaut in space-suit training with the Zvezda training module in the pool of the GCTC.
 

March 29, 2011. May 1961,Moscow. l-r Soviet Cosmonaut Juri Gagarin pictured when vocationing in Sochi Black Sea resort.
 

March 17, 2011. Russia. Radiation control in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk city of Sakhalin Island caused by Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant explosion in Japan.Pictured: Russian Emergency forces personnel with a special device measuring radiation contamination level in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk city - the closest russian territory to Japan.
 

November 29, 2010. First Russian Offshore Oil Rig Platform built at Sevmash construction plant in Severodvinsk,Russia.`Prirazlomnaya` Oil Rig Platform is pictured harboured in Murmansk. The platform is to operate at the `Prirazlomnaya` field, north of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug in the Pechora Sea. It is built for 25 years of operation in tough climatic conditions. It has the capacity to store 126,000 tons of oil. The top platform part comes from the Hatton platform, which served in the North Sea. The `Prirazlomnaya` will be the first oil production field in the Russian North and a major experiment for the Russian oil industry.
 

November 29, 2010. Pokrovsky stem cells bank in Saint-Petersburg,Russia. Pictured: cryo laboratory of the stem cells bank .
 

November 10, 2010. Moscow,November 9,2010.Pictured: Rå:Store shop in Moscow ; Apple launched official sales of iPad in Russia.
 

October 22, 2010. James Mirrlees ,Scottish economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences at the meeting with students of St.Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance.
 

October 22, 2010. American biochemist Roger David Kornberg at the meeting with students of St.Petersburg University. Roger David Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006.
 

August 18, 2010. The long-awaited opening of Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant was announced to be launched by the Russian Atomic Agency. A spokesman for the agency today the Nuclear Power Plant will come online on August 21st, 2010 and from that moment on it can be called operational. ‘The fuel will be charged in the reactor on August 21. From this moment, Bushehr will be considered a nuclear installation,’ Russia’s Atomic Agency Rosatom spokesman Sergei Novikov said. ‘This can be considered as the physical launch,’ he added. Pictured: Nuclear Power Plant in Bushehr.
 

August 13, 2010. `Sky in Art` Contemporary Art exhibition in State Russian Museum of St.Petersburg.
 

July 15, 2010. Expo 2010 Shanghai. Pictured: exposition devoted to alternative energy sources in Chinese pavilion.
 

July 12, 2010. The 8000-year-old skeleton of a young man found near the village of Ohoden in Bulgaria has been taken to the Regional History Museum in Vratsa. The skeleton, already dubbed by the Bulgarian media as “the first European”, was discovered recently by archaeologist Georgi Ganetsovski who specializes in paleolithic settlements. It belonged to a 35-year-old man with a height of 165 cm.