Pictures from the South-West of Russia and bordering regions.

• Images of Chechnya and the 1995 Budyonnovsk Hostage Crisis by Moscow-based photographer Edward Opp. Comments to: edopp@glasnet.ru

• Chechnya'96 - The endless war and faces of people: chechens, soldiers, refugees... and leaders. All pictures are collected by Gleb Zverev on his unofficial RussiaTV page.

• Chechnya'95 - Here are Chechnya maps from the PCL map collection (Univ. of Texas at Austin). Compilation of news from various media sources pertaining to Russia's breakaway southern region Chechnya and other information is collected on the Bill Ross page.

• The Sochi Guide is maintained by Alexander Churkin. Alexander tells you about the history of his native city, provides a sight-seeing tour around Sochi and brief statistics. All information is available only in Russian. © 1996-98, Alexander Churkin. Comments to: shura@sochi.com

• The south coastline of Crimea - the Great Yalta: english version and russian version. This region and other places in Crimea are presented by ELIS NET server. Comments to: webmaster@elis.crimea.ua

• Crimea has other attractions besides the coast of the Black Sea: mountains and medieval cities. Students of the Moscow Physico-Technical Institute have collected photos from a trip to Ai-Petri (a mountain between Alushta and Yalta, towns on south coastline of Crimea). Another large collection of photos taken during the trip to Fisht (Crimea).

• Andrey Sebrant (asebrant@glasnet.ru) invites you to cross the border between Russia and Ukraine and visit Artek, an international children camp on the Black Sea coast, Yalta and other places in Crimea. Andrey named his trip "Palms In The Snow" (March, 1996).

• Pictures from Rostov-on-Don and the largest city in this region: Taganrog

• Novocherkask, the capital of Russian cossacks. Information is available in English or Russian (KOI-8) from the Information Centre of Novocherkassk Telephone Station. Comments to: webmaster@nts.rnd.su

• Dagestan, a multi-ethnic republic sandwiched between the Caucasus mountains and the Caspian Sea. This wonderful illustrated narrative was created by Paul Knott after his trip to Dagestan in 1992. Comments to: p.knott@fs4.mbs.ac.uk

• Pyatigorsk, the wonderful city on the north of Caucasian mountains. The on-line exhibition is organized by Valeri G. Poltavtsev (Copyright © 1995 vpolt@bev.net).

• Pavel Rebrov presents a small collection of pictures of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) taken from postcard sets "Volgograd" and "Mamayev Kurgan" by the Moscow publishing company "Plakat". Comments and suggestions can be made on the suggestions form or by e-mail to: chopson@access.digex.net

• Four photos of Mount Ushba, (Caucasus) taken in summer. E-mail to Daniel: last_dan@geocities.com.

Picture Network International (PNI)

1. Refugees: The EPW6 Virtual Assignment (http://sunsite.unc.edu/nppa/epw6/onlinpix.html)
   • Klaus Reisinger, Black Star (http://www.blackstar.com/), Copyright 1994. Refugees fleeing Sukhumi. (56kb). Worried refugees struggle to flee the Republic of Georgia after violent unrest during the 1992 presidential elections.
   • Agence France-Presse, Copyright 1994. Georgian refugees stand behind barbed wire (96kb) at the Georgian border with Abkhazia, waiting to return to their homes in the breakaway republic as a Russian peacekeeper stands guard in Zugdidi 16 September. The return of Georgian refugee was delayed because armed Abkhazian units took up positions along the border and were on alert to resist attempts by Russian peacekeepers to disarm them.
   
   
2. Alternative Uses For Newspapers. Photos from electronic stock at the EPW6 workshop site. A Georgian woman kneels on a newspaper on the ground as a man counts out money in the marketplace. Sukhumi, Georgia (56kb). Photo by V. Velengurin, Sovfoto/Eastfoto. Copyright 1994 PNI. The URL of the "Alternative Uses For Newspapers" collection is http://sunsite.unc.edu/nppa/epw6/altpaper.html

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