These shots were taken in Kemerovo region, Siberia, the beginning of September, 2015.
The river presented here is called Telbes, it’s approximately 80 kilometers long (about 50 miles). The region is mountainous and overgrown with taiga.
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This scenery was photographed on April 22, 2015. It’s the old Russian cemetery above an industrial (in the past) town in the southwestern part of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia. The town is called Kadamjay (Kadamzhay), also known as Pulgon, 30 kilometers south of an ancient Uzbek city called Fergana (Fargona).
This is Aksu river photographed from one of its bridges in Kadamjay town in the south of Kyrgyzstan, one of the Central Asian countries. Another name of the river is Shohimardon-say (in Uzbek).
The mountain rises above the Central Asian town of Kadamzhay and is called Kitovka in Russian. The mountain was dubbed Kitovka by Russian settlers in the second half of the 20th century, when Kyrgyzstan was part of the USSR.
The sun sets on the opposite side of Mt Kitovka.
In mid-spring people pick edible mountain mushrooms here. I used to go to these places for mushrooms too, before I migrated to Russia in 2004.
Did you know that birch grows not only in usual plain forests? Yes, it does. Below are birch trees growing high up in the mountains of Southern Kyrgyzstan.
And this is fir tree, the photograph was made in Kyrgyzstan last August:
