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Arkhangelsk
Hay drying hurdle by the Malyje Karely ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-08 Drying the hay is the ancient way of conserving the grass.
Izhma
What will the future be for the collective farms? ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-09 It is not so common to see such boats close to Naryan-Mar, but even here the rich people can have a rest in sailboats.
Potatoes
Most of families in the Russian villages are growing potatoes. ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 2002-07 The new locks have such a floating systems to fix the boat in the locks. The old ones have not. There one has to use rope only.	Potato farming in Kareliya. ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 2002-07 This part of the White Sea-Baltic Canal is not reconstructed and appears how it was built in the 30ies.	Potatoes are one of the most usual farming products of the Russian North. ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 2002-02 The last picture of the canal from this trip. The captain Aleksey Dmitrieev on deck.
Russia
An old collective farmer from Onega ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-08 The Northern Russia was collectivized in the 1930ies.
Solovetsky
A goat. Behind the monastery. ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 2002-07 An Ural motorcycle with side wagon on the streets of Solovetsky Island.	An old tractor probably belonging to the agricultural collective farm ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 2002-07 An Ural motorcycle with side wagon on the streets of Solovetsky Island.