Russian Rust Belt blue crabs photography and text: Tatyana Palyga

photography and text: Tatyana Palyga

above and beyond its historical significance

with more than twenty films made since the late 1970s

horizontally and not stacked

Russian Rust Belt blue crabs photography and text: Tatyana PalygaThe exceptional mineral wealth in the Urals has provided the resources for Russias economic development and military defence for over 300 years. In the twentieth century, the region became central to Stalins plans to modernise the Soviet Union and drive the transition to a world class industrial economy. Following the collapse of the USSR, the people of the Urals were left to endure the punishing legacy of the Soviet industrial project: failing