September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin at the ceremony marking the joining of the first link in the Power of Siberia main gas pipeline held at Namsky Highway near Us Khatyn village.01.09.2014#2486385
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China Zhang Gaoli before the ceremony marking the joining of the first link in the Power of Siberia main gas pipeline held at Namsky Highway near Us Khatyn village.01.09.2014#2486383
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, at the ceremony marking the joining of the first link in the Power of Siberia main gas pipeline, held at Namsky Highway near Us Khatyn village. Gazprom Board Chairman Alexei Miller, left. Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China Zhang Gaoli, right, addressing the ceremony.01.09.2014#2486379
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, at the ceremony marking the joining of the first link in the Power of Siberia main gas pipeline, held at Namsky Highway near Us Khatyn village. Gazprom Board Chairman Alexei Miller, right. Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China Zhang Gaoli, left.01.09.2014#2486375
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the ceremony marking the joining of the first link in the Power of Siberia main gas pipeline, held at Namsky Highway near Us Khatyn village.01.09.2014#2486371
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, at the ceremony marking the joining of the first link in the Power of Siberia main gas pipeline, held at Namsky Highway near Us Khatyn village. Gazprom Board Chairman Alexei Miller, left. Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China Zhang Gaoli, right.01.09.2014#2486369
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, addresses the ceremony marking the joining of the first link in the Power of Siberia main gas pipeline, held at Namsky Highway near Us Khatyn village. Gazprom Board Chairman Alexei Miller, left. Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China Zhang Gaoli, right.01.09.2014#2486368
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, addresses the ceremony marking the joining of the first link in the Power of Siberia main gas pipeline, held at Namsky Highway near Us Khatyn village. Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China Zhang Gaoli, right.01.09.2014#2486367
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, at the ceremony marking the joining of the first link in the Power of Siberia main gas pipeline, held at Namsky Highway near Us Khatyn village. Gazprom Board Chairman Alexei Miller, left. Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China Zhang Gaoli, right.01.09.2014#2486366
September 1, 2014. Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China Zhang Gaoli, center, at the ceremony marking the joining of the first link in the Power of Siberia main gas pipeline held at Namsky Highway near Us Khatyn village.01.09.2014#2486365
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin signs the place where the pipes are joined at the ceremony marking the joining of the first link in the Power of Siberia main gas pipeline held at Namsky Highway near Us Khatyn village.01.09.2014#2486364
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, at the ceremony marking the joining of the first link in the Power of Siberia main gas pipeline, held at Namsky Highway near Us Khatyn village. Gazprom Board Chairman Alexei Miller, right. Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China Zhang Gaoli, left.01.09.2014#2486363
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, at the ceremony marking the joining of the first link in the Power of Siberia main gas pipeline, held at Namsky Highway near Us Khatyn village. Gazprom Board Chairman Alexei Miller, left. Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China Zhang Gaoli, right.01.09.2014#2486361
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, at the ceremony marking the joining of the first link in the Power of Siberia main gas pipeline, held at Namsky Highway near Us Khatyn village. Gazprom Board Chairman Alexei Miller, right. Cropped image.01.09.2014#2486360
September 1, 2014. Welding the joint at the ceremony marking the joining of the first link in the Power of Siberia main gas pipeline attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin, held at Namsky Highway near Us Khatyn village.01.09.2014#2486359
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, at the ceremony marking the joining of the first link in the Power of Siberia main gas pipeline, held at Namsky Highway near Us Khatyn village. Gazprom Board Chairman Alexei Miller, left. Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China Zhang Gaoli, right.01.09.2014#2486358
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin at the ceremony marking the joining of the first link in the Power of Siberia main gas pipeline, held at Namsky Highway near Us Khatyn village.01.09.2014#2486357
September 1, 2014. Welding the joint at the ceremony marking the joining of the first link in the Power of Siberia main gas pipeline attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin, held at Namsky Highway near Us Khatyn village.01.09.2014#2486355
September 1, 2014. Welding the joint at the ceremony marking the joining of the first link in the Power of Siberia main gas pipeline attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin, held at Namsky Highway near Us Khatyn village.01.09.2014#2486354
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin is photographed with students and professors of the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk. Left: the university's rector Yevgeniya Mikhailova and Sakha Republic (Yakutia) President Yegor Borisov.01.09.2014#2486308
September 1, 2014. From left: Russian Presidential Aide Igor Levitin, Federation Council Deputy Chairman Vyacheslav Shtyrov with Natural Resources and Environment Minister Sergei Donskoi at a meeting on the state support of priority investment projects and territories of rapid development in the Far East chaired by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) administration building in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486302
September 1, 2014. Denis Manturov, Russian minister for industry and commerce, with Alexander Galushka, Russian minister for the development of the Far East, at a meeting on the state support of priority investment projects and territories of rapid development in the Far East chaired by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) administration building in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486298
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, second row center, chairs a meeting on the state support of priority investment projects and territories of rapid development in the Far East, held at the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) administration building in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486282
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, middle ground center, chairs a meeting on the state support of priority investment projects and territories of rapid development in the Far East, held at the the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) administration building in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486277
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, during a meeting on the state support of priority investment projects and territories of rapid development in the Far East, held at the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) administration building in Yakutsk. From left: Russian Presidential Aide Andrei Fursenko and Yury Trutnev, Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Plenipotentiary Presidential Representative in the Far Eastern Federal District. From right: Russian Federation Council Deputy Chairman Vyacheslav Shtyrov and Presidential Aide Igor Levitin.01.09.2014#2486276
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, during a meeting on the state support of priority investment projects and territories of rapid development in the Far East, held at the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) administration building in Yakutsk. Left: Presidential Aide Andrei Fursenko.01.09.2014#2486275
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting on the state support of priority investment projects and territories of rapid development in the Far East, held at the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) administration building in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486274
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on the state support of priority investment projects and territories of rapid development in the Far East, held at the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) administration building in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486265
September 1, 2014. Yakutsk residents during Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University.01.09.2014#2486202
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, meets with students and professors of the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486201
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, meets with students and professors of the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486199
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, second row center, meets with students and professors of the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486197
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin and North-Eastern Federal University Rector Yevgeniya Mikhailova, right, during a visit to the P. Lazarev Mammoth Museum at the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486182
September 1, 2014. From right: North-Eastern Federal University Rector Yevgeniya Mikhailova, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Presidential Aide Andrei Fursenko during a visit to the P. Lazarev Mammoth Museum at the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486180
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, second right, visits the P. Lazarev Mammoth Museum at the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486179
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, visits the P. Lazarev Mammoth Museum at the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486178
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, visits the P. Lazarev Mammoth Museum at the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486177
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, visits the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486169
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, visits a laboratory at the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk. Left: Yevgeniya Mikhailova, rector of the North-Eastern Federal University.01.09.2014#2486167
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Yevgeniya Mikhailova, rector of the North-Eastern Federal University, during Putin's visit to the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486165
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, answers questions of BBC reporter John Sweeney, right, during a visit to the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk. Center: Russian president's press secretary Dmitry Peskov.01.09.2014#2486137
September 1, 2014. Yevgeniya Mikhailova, rector of the North-Eastern Federal University, and Alexander Galushka, Russian minister for the development of the Far East, during Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486119
September 1, 2014. Yury Trutnev, Russian deputy prime minister and plenipotentiary presidential representative in the Far Eastern Federal District, during Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486098
September 1, 2014. Yegor Borisov, president of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), during Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486095
September 1, 2014. Yegor Borisov, center, president of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), during a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with students and professors of the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486089
September 1, 2014. Russian presidential aide Andrei Fursenko, second left, during a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with students and professors of the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486087
September 1, 2014. Students and professors of the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486082
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, meets with students and professors of the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486077
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, meets with students and professors of the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486075
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with students and professors of the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486074
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, meets with students and professors of the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486070
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with students and professors of the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486067
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with students and professors of the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486065
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, visits the M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2486062
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, during a welcoming ceremony at the airport in the city of Yakutsk. Right: Alexander Galushka, Russian minister for the development of the Far East, and Yury Trutnev, Russian deputy prime minister and plenipotentiary presidential representative in the Far Eastern Federal District.01.09.2014#2485965
September 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, during a welcoming ceremony at the airport in the city of Yakutsk.01.09.2014#2485964
