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Men at Work•Люди труда

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)

From the menial and perhaps mundane to the creative and oft times ingenious, images of men & women at work, their places of work and machinery, and the results of their labor.
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Taking a break while packing up their sled on the tundra. (Nenets Autonomous District, Russia)
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Taking a break while packing up their sled on the tundra. (Nenets Autonomous District, Russia)

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  • Pressing dough into baking molds at the Tula Priyaniki Bakery. (Tula, Russia)
  • Russian prianki fresh out of the oven. Often compared to gingerbread, they're more like a dry honey cake as there's no ginger in them. These heart-shaped cakes say, "I give this to the one I love". (5.26.2011)
  • Decorating a gun handle at Tula Metal Works. (9.2.2011)
  • Forest ranger who pulled our sledge into the forest in -35C weather. (Tobolsk Region, Russia)
  • Forest ranger Vadim. (Tyumen Oblast, Russa) Вадим, охотовед.
  • Legendary Siberian bone carver, Minsalim, at work in his studio. (Tobolsk, Russia)
  • Chopping blocks of ice to take home for water. (Laytamak, Siberia, Russia)
  • Machine grinding a bowl at one of Russia's best-known glass works. Founded in 1756, The Crystal Goose Factory has fallen on hard times, but continues to operate. (Vladimir Oblast, Russia) (Гусь Хрустальный)
  • Finishing the bottom of a bowl at the Crystal Goose Factory. (Vladimir Oblast, Russia) (Гусь Хрустальный)
  • Potter at work at the Dimov Ceramics Workshop. (Suzdal, Russia)
  • Chuvashian embroidery. The craftsmanship of Master Embroiderer Maria Simakova. (6.21.2011)
  • Doctor's Clogs. Federal Trauma Center. (Cheboksary, Chuvashia, Russia)
  • A woman's work is never done. Nenets woman, Svetlana, firing up the stove in her chum [tent]. (Nenets Autonomous District, Russia)
  • Taking a break while packing up their sled on the tundra. (Nenets Autonomous District, Russia)
  • Bringing in the catch. (Cape Nuklya, Russia) (мысе Нюкля, Магаданская область)
  • Salmon catch. (Cape Nuklya, Russian Far East) (мысе Нюкля, Магаданская область)
  • Cameramen have all the fun. RT cameraman, Ilya Turbin, flying over Kolyma, Russia. (Колыма, Магадан область)
  • Building a helicopter at the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant. (Buryatia, Russia)
  • Buryat Fishermen. (Buryatia, Russia)
  • Fishing on Lake Baikal. (Buryatia, Russia)
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