Portfolio

Grozny: Nine Cities
The bank of the Sunzha river in downtown Grozny, where a children’s amusement park was before the war, and which is now a construction site - it will host new governmental buildings, 2009, by Oksana Yushko

Grozny: Nine Cities
Islamic University, 2010, by Oksana Yushko

Grozny: Nine Cities
Dressing up a bride. Grozny, 2009, by Oksana Yushko

Grozny: Nine Cities
A room in the elderly home in Grozny, 2010, by Maria Morina

Grozny: Nine Cities
A woman living in the temporary housing facilities are preparing bags of dowry for her daughter’s wedding, 2010, by Maria Morina

Grozny: Nine Cities
Women surround a metal detector installed at one of the entrances to downtown Grozny just before the Victory Day parade, held on May 9, 2010. Outside the entrance an APC is parked, 2010, by Olga Kravets

Grozny: Nine Cities
An improvized market outside of the house in downtown Grozny, 2010, by Olga Kravets

Grozny: Nine Cities
A boy is watching a motorbike while his adult relatives are looking for constructions materials in a deserted area in Grozny that used to host the oil refineries bombed and destroyed during the wars, 2010, by Olga Kravets

Grozny: Nine Cities
Security during the football game between Chechnya’s Terek and veterans of the Brazilian team, 2011, by Oksana Yushko

Grozny: Nine Cities
A private pistol with inscriptions, a gift from the parents, 2010, by Maria Morina

Grozny: Nine Cities
Schoolgirls wearing T-shirts with a portrait of the Chechen president on it, 2010, by Oksana Yushko

Grozny: Nine Cities
A man is attending first Chechnya’s legal street car racing carrying his gun, which is a favourite male accessory in Chechnya, 2010, by Maria Morina

Grozny: Nine Cities
Members of the families of a bride and a groom perform a ritual of discussing the amount of bridewealth, 2099, by Oksana Yushko

Grozny: Nine Cities
A young mother is embracing her small daughter. She and her husband have to live in the living room of his parents’ house, because according to Chechen traditions, he cannot leave them, because he is the youngest son in the family, 2010, by Maria Morina

Grozny: Nine Cities
Men perform Dkhir, a Sufi spiritual ceremony, after the funerals outside of Grozny, 2010, by Oksana Yushko

Grozny: Nine Cities
A military base outside Grozny, 2010, by Oksana Yushko

Grozny: Nine Cities
Mentally and physically ill 18-year-old girl in her room in temporary housing facilities, where she lives with four other people, 2010, by Maria Morina

Grozny: Nine Cities
A road in the outskirts of Grozny that used to be industrial areas before the war, 2009, by Olga Kravets

Grozny: Nine Cities
A Chechen woman is making her hair, 2011, by Oksana Yushko

Grozny: Nine Cities
Cows surround an oil drill in the outskirts of Grozny belonging to Rosneft, Russia’s oil monopoly that was a mastermind behind the end of second war of get hold of the republic’s recources, 2010, by Olga Kravets

Grozny: Nine Cities
The ceremony of the blood feud peace agreement between two tapes outside of Grozny, 2010, by Oksana Yushko

Grozny: Nine Cities
The pipes that used to be part of the oil refinery facilities in Grozny. All of them were bombed and destroyed during the wars, 2009, by Olga Kravets

Grozny: Nine Cities
The officials attend Victory Day celebrations in Grozny, 2010, by Maria Morina

Grozny: Nine Cities
A man leaving the mosque in Grozny after the prayer, is showing the forefinger in honor of Allah, 2011, by Oksana Yushko

Grozny: Nine Cities
A dying man in a cancer hospital, 2010, by Olga Kravets

Grozny: Nine Cities
The ceremony of the blood feud peace agreement between two families outside of Grozny, 2010, by Olga Kravets

Grozny: Nine Cities
A view from a minivan driving along Grozny, 2011, by Oksana Yushko

Grozny: Nine Cities
The Moscow-Grozny train is arriving to the railway station of the Chechen capital, 2011, by Oksana Yushko

Grozny: Nine Cities
The abandoned Russian cemetery outside of Grozny. Nobody takes care of it, since nowadays only a handful of ethnic Russians still live in the Chechen capital, 2010, by Olga Kravets

Grozny: Nine Cities
An old Russian lady is sitting inside the only one Russian Orthodox church in the centre of Grozny, 2010, by Olga Kravets

Grozny: Nine Cities
Guests at a posh wedding party in New Grozny, 2010, by Olga Kravets

Grozny: Nine Cities
Children are sitting on a gas pipe watching blood feud peace ceremony, 2010, by Olga Kravets

Grozny: Nine Cities
Football game, 2011, by Oksana Yushko

Grozny: Nine Cities
A Chechen woman who did not want to be identified - when the picture was taken she was planning to go illegally to Norway and seek asylum there, 2009, by Maria Morina

Grozny: Nine Cities
Men are standing during the ceremony of the blood feud peace agreement between two tapes (tribes) outside of Grozny, 2010, by Oksana Yushko

Grozny: Nine Cities
Mentally and physically ill 18-year-old girl in her room in temporary housing facilities, where she lives with four other people, 2009, by Maria Morina

Grozny: Nine Cities
A traditional Chechen baby bed, known as an ‘aga,’ at the apartment of a blind family, 2009, by Oksana Yushko