Stanislava Novgorodtseva

Hero of Russian folk tales on the city embankment, Yevpatoria, Crimea

Wild beach at Cape Meganom, Sudak, Crimea

The factory of champagne " Novy Svet ", Novy Svet. Crimea

Locals after bathing in healing hydrosulphuric springs, Jankoy, Crimea

The center of the Far Space Communication wherefrom was the management of the first manned flights into space during Soviet times, Yevpatoria, Crimea

Graduates of the school on the "Last Bell" day, Armyansk, Crimea

Anniversary of the liberation of Evpatoria from the Nazi occupation during the Second World War, Yevpatoria, Crimea

Bather at the city beach, Yevpatoria, Crimea

Disco in the house of culture in the village "Luchistoe", City district of Alushta, Crimea

Celebrating Victory Day on Mount Mithridates, Kerch, Crimea

The Island of Crimea

In Crimea I saw the sea for the first time in my life. I was 8 and everything seemed magical...

In Vasily Aksyonov's dystopian novel The Island of Crimea written in 1979, Crimea is a prosperous independent state. Its ethnically Russian inhabitants enjoy all the comforts and freedoms absent in the neighboring USSR. A part of the population, nostalgic about their ethnic roots, believes that Crimea has to become a part of the USSR. The protagonist, a supporter of the reunion, only realizes his fatal mistake when for him, the merging of the two states ends in a tragedy.

In 1783, the Crimean peninsula became a part of the Russian Empire. It was transferred to the Ukrainian SSR by the Soviet government in 1954. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the peninsula was a part of Ukraine. In March of 2014, Crimea was annexed by Russia. The peninsula has been in the spotlight of the world community and at the center of political controversy ever since. At the same time, the sanctions against Russia and certain limitations on the territory of Crimea only strengthened the sense of its isolation.

Stanislava Novgorodtseva

Stanislava Novgorodtseva is a documentary photographer and visual storyteller. He was born in Moscow in 1989. He graduated from the Rodchenko Moscow School Of Photography And Multimedia (course "Photo In Media"). He is currently a student of The School of Modern Photography in Saint Petersburg DocDocDoc. He is a winner of the Alexander Yefremov Press Photo Contest, 1st prize, Russia, 2018. He participated in the Nikon-Noor Academy in Hungary in 2018.