We know this photographer, Slava, for being meticulously cool with the photos he make. Lately his main topic of interest was Russia from above – he visited different places across the country and photographed those from helicopters or small planes. And now he made something even more cool – probably one of the most nicely looking photo sets in a while. He took some selected best photos of Russia from above he took for last couple of years and transformed them in toy-like fashion. This technic is known as tilt-shift makes a regular photo looks unreal and like stepping out of children’s toy store. The blurred sidelines of the frame contribute to this effect. Like you see the photo of the Red Square and the Kremlin on top – isn’t it look pretty much unreal? Inside you can see really awesome collection of photos by Slava which he calls a “Toy-Like Russia”.

This post is a really beautiful set of photos and highly recommended to view!

Battleship Aurora in St. Petersburg.

Train station.

Norilsk city.

Caucasian mountains.

Novosibirsk opera theater the biggest theatrical building in Russia.

“Stalin’s Skyscraper”.

Oil refinery.

Winter lake Baikal.

Kaliningrad city.

Coal mining in Kuzbass Russia.

Spasskiy cathedral in Elabuga.

Plane being prepared for a trip in Domodedovo airport Moscow.

Central Train Station in Krasnoyarsk.

Arkhangelsk “promenade”.

The Winter Palace square in St. Petersburg.

Factories in Chelyabinsk.

A river in Khakasia.

Novorossiysk sea port.

The Kremlin in Kazan city.

Novosibirsk downtown.

The city lake.

Ufa city.

Traffic jam in Moscow.

Biggest Russian hydro power plant.

Yekaterinburg city.

Biggest diamond mine in the world in Yakutsk, Russia.

Bridge in Irkutsk city.

Some cows on a pasture.

A port in Dudinka.

“Science city” in Novosibirsk.

A tractor.

A small city in Siberia.

An atomic submarine.

Vladivostok city on Russian Pacific coast.

Oil pumping.

Railroad museum.

Nizhny Novgorod city.

Used cars market.

Rocks of the “Devil City” near Ekaterinburg.

Atomic ice-breakers in Murmansk.

A train.

Town houses in construction.

Fútebol.

Hydro-Powerplant in Dagestan.

Brand new KAMAZ trucks on the factory lot.

Krasnoyarsk city on the Enisey river.

A channel in Kazan city.

Ships at the sea.

Petropavlosk Kamchatskiy – easternmost city of Russia.

Hills next to the Baikal lake.

Gelendzhik resort city on the Black Sea.

Town of Kayerkan.

Barnaul city.

Baikal lake, again.

The central train station in Novosibirsk.

Large mining trucks and a human for scale.

Moscow city at night.

Summer cottages in winter.

Mosfilm studio film sets lot.

Hope you really enjoyed this set! Again big thanks to Slava for posting and sharing those. His website below if you are interested in more of his work:

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