RIA Novosti presents its thematic collection of the most interesting pictures taken by the agency’s photographers throughout 2010 RIA Novosti Photo Gallery: Nature.
A crow searches a McDonald’s wrappers for leftovers.
A group of pigeons tries to keep warm after a snowstorm in St Petersburg.
A blizzard hits Vladivostok.
A squirrel in the Khimki forest outside Moscow.
The first snow of the year falls on the Khimki forest outside Moscow.
Snow is cleared from the Moscow streets.
Haze rises from the Svir River estuary near St. Petersburg.
Autumn leaves fall in the town of Izborsk, in Russia’s northwestern Pskov Region.
The Springs of the Twelve Apostles in Izborsk, in Russia’s northwestern Pskov Region.
The Curonian Spit nature reserve, on Lithuania’s Baltic Coast.
View of a field in Russia’s Altai Region.
Holiday-makers at a pier on Bodufinolhu Island.
The Sophia Valley of Arkhyz, in the Caucasus.
Wildfires near the Russian city of Togliatti, on the Volga River.
Cracks appear on the surface of a field due to lack of rainfall, the Urals Region of Chelyabinsk, Russia.
Blocks of ice float in the Arctic Ocean, off the Franz Josef Land Archipelago.
