A girl is seen here during Epiphany bathing in the Red Caves spring, Simferopol District, Crimea.19.01.2017#3011879
Steam rises from Central Heating and Power Plant #20 on a frosty day in Moscow. Foreground: the monument to cosmonaut Yury Gagarin by sculptor P.I. Bondarenko.08.01.2017#3007834
A participant during the Christmas Ride 2017 sleddog competition. The Novosibirsk Biathlon Complex.07.01.2017#3007491
Children during the winter festivity of Christmas fortune telling and carol singing in Petrovskoye village in the Chelyabinsk Region.07.01.2017#3007475
A dog with her master before the Christmas Ride 2017 sleddog competition held at the Novosibirsk Biathlon Complex.07.01.2017#3007497
CSKA's Kyle Hines, center, in a match of the Euroleague Basketball regular season. Real Madrid (Spain, Madrid) vs. CSKA (Russia, Moscow).07.01.2017#3007347
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia holds a Christmas service at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.07.01.2017#3007263
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia holds a Christmas service at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.06.01.2017#3007227
A believer attends a Christmas service at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.06.01.2017#3007198
Kazan, Tatarstan. The illuminated facade of the Qol Sharif Mosque on New Year's Eve.29.12.2016#3005552
A girl attends the "Icy Moscow: Family Circle" festival on New Year's Eve held on Poklonnaya Hill, Moscow.29.12.2016#3005503
Dynamo-Kazan players during the award ceremony after the Russian Women's Volleyball Cup final match between Dynamo-Kazan and Dynamo Moscow.28.12.2016#3005068
Reconnaissance squadron of the motorized rifle brigade of the 5th combined-arms army during the Reconnaissance Scout's Path exercise at the Sergeyevsky training ground in the Primorye Territory.27.12.2016#3004191
A fan at the Kontinental Hockey League regular championship match between CSKA Moscow and Lokomotiv Yaroslavl.26.12.2016#3003962
Dancer shoes laid outside the building of The Alexandrov Academic Ensemble of Song and Dance of the Russian Army in Moscow. A TU-154 aircraft of the Russian Defense Ministry with Alexandrov Ensemble's performers aboard crashed off the Black Sea coast.25.12.2016#3003362
Candles lit at a vigil in Sochi where a Russian Defense Ministry's TU-154 airplane crashed off the Black Sea coast.25.12.2016#3003406
Alexandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin perform during the exhibition gala at the Russian Figure Skating Championships in Chelyabinsk.25.12.2016#3003345
Flowers outside the Ostankino TV Center laid at the photos of the journalists who died in the Russian Defense Ministry's TU-154 aircraft crash off the Black Sea coast near Sochi.25.12.2016#3003183
Flowers outside the Fair Aid International Public Organization in memory of Yelizaveta Glinka (Doctor Liza), who died in the Russian Defense Ministry's TU-154 aircraft crash off the Black Sea coast near Sochi.25.12.2016#3003185
Chelyabinsk, Russia. Winners of the Russian Figure Skating Championship attend the awards ceremony.25.12.2016#3003069
Members of the Diving club of the Central Sports Club of the Russian Navy celebrate New Year in a swimming pool in Moscow.24.12.2016#3002649
Aleksandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin perform their ice dancing free program at the Russian Figure Skating Championships in Chelyabinsk.23.12.2016#3001961
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin takes part in the opening ceremony of the renovated Central House of Chess located in a mansion at Gogolevsky Boulevard in Moscow.23.12.2016#3002032
Participants in the Berkutchi Festival of eagle falconry near the village of Kainar, Raiymbeksky District, Kazakhstan.23.12.2016#3004214
Frost in a girl's hair outside Nefteyugansk. The temperature dropped to minus 62 degrees Celsius.22.12.2016#3001756
A scene from "Here We Come, We Are Leaving" play directed by Sergei Aronin at the Mossovet State Academic Theater in Moscow.22.12.2016#3000825
A young man outside Nefteyugansk. The temperature dropped to minus 62 degrees Celsius.22.12.2016#3001754
Coca-Cola's trucks drive to the Raduga (Rainbow) children's home in the village of Bolotnaya in the Novgorod Region to hold a charity event there.20.12.2016#2999333
A fire show on Tverskoi Bulvar in Moscow as part of the Journey to Christmas festival.17.12.2016#2997264
A fire show on Tverskoi Bulvar in Moscow as part of the Journey to Christmas festival. Cropped image.17.12.2016#2997440
Barcelona's Victor Claver at the Euroleague Basketball regular championship match between PBC CSKA Moscow, Russia and BC Barcelona Spain.16.12.2016#2996431
Tatyana Akimova of Russia, gold medal winner of the women's sprint at the 2016-17 Biathlon World Cup 3 in Nove Mesto na Morave, Czech Republic, during the medal ceremony.16.12.2016#2996155
Svetlana Sleptsova of Russia during the women's sprint at the 2016-17 Biathlon World Cup 3 in Nove Mesto na Morave, Czech Republic.16.12.2016#2996408
Tatyana Akimova of Russia during the women's sprint at the 2016-17 Biathlon World Cup 3 in Nove Mesto na Morave, Czech Republic.16.12.2016#2996224
Aleppo residents in the Salaheddine district after militans and their families leave the eastern Aleppo.16.12.2016#2995428
Contestants during the finals of the Golden Crown of Russia beauty pageant held at Moscow's Korston Hotel Club.15.12.2016#2995275
A visitor seen here at the paintings "The Descent from the Cross," left, and "Encoffinment" by Mikhail Poletayev and Vasily Nesterenko at the opening of the exhibition "Russian Athos" marking a millennium of Russian monasticism on Mount Athos, at the Zurab Tsereteli Gallery.15.12.2016#2994970
Olga Miller, jury member, actress, model and four-time beauty pageant winner, during the finals of the Golden Crown of Russia beauty pageant held at Moscow's Korston Hotel Club.15.12.2016#2995270
Matthias Dorfer of Germany during the men's sprint at the 2016-17 Biathlon World Cup 3 in Nove Mesto na Morave, Czech Republic.15.12.2016#2995078
Martin Fourcade (France) during the men's sprint race at the 2016–17 Biathlon World Cup 3 in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic.15.12.2016#2995111
Yevgeny Garanichev (Russia) during the preliminary shooting before the men's sprint race at the 2016–17 Biathlon World Cup 3 in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic.15.12.2016#2995153
Guests and models at the opening of "I Love Chanel. Private Collections," Russia's first exhibition of private collections dedicated to the works of Coco Chanel, at the Museum of Moscow.14.12.2016#2994394
