Spring began in Russia on March 1 with warm weather, melting snow and sunny days. Nature awakens from a several month long winter sleep and days are getting longer. Take a look at some amazing pictures of the beginning of the spring season in Russia.
Above: Early flowers of the Dahurian rhododendron covered with snow in a forest of the Zabaikalye Territory.
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Above: A group of men bathing in a hot river, a spring of the volcano Khodutka, Kamchatka.
In the beginning of the spring season, scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences' Zoology Institute in St. Petersburg catch, weigh and ring 2,000 to 3,000 migrating birds per day.
Above: Experts work with a robin at an ornithological station at the Kurshskaya Spit.
Above: Experts work with a robin at an ornithological station at the Kurshskaya Spit.
Above: Ice-bound Lake Baikal in March.
Above: Bushes of wild rosemary (Dahurian rhododendron) in a Trans-baikal forest.
Above: A pond in the Main Botanical Gardens of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Above: The Tom River in the city of Tomsk during ice break-up.
Above: Bouquets of tulips in Flora Stil greenhouse during the harvest of tulips on the eve of March 8 in Vladivostok.
Above: St. Trinity Convent in the town of Murom.
A picker cutting flowers from trees during a seasonal picking of mimosa in Abkhazia.
Above: Strollers on Sochi's sea front.
Above: The shore of the Gulf of Finland in the resort area of St. Petersburg.
Above: Snow melting in a forest outside Murom.
Above: A snowdrop in a forest of the Zabaikalye Territory.
Above: The M-52 "Chuysky Tract" highway in Ongudaisky District, Republic of Altai.
Above: The shore of the Gulf of Finland in the resort area of St. Petersburg.
Above: Spring flooding on Pskov's Velikaya River with the Pskov Kremlin in the background.
Above: A view of residential houses in Moscow suburbs.
Above: Birch catkins in spring.
