Orda Cave has been featured among 
the best world’s underwater caves according Scuba Diving Magazine.
Text: Bogdana Vashchenko, photo: Victor Lyagushkin.
Orda Cave in Scuba Diving Magazine
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The best Nikon Photographers
N-Photo Magazine chosed Viktor’s photo “Diving Under the Stars” for their issue #10 Feature Section “Nine pages of inspirational images from top Nikon photographers”
Search for Sunken Palace
September 2012 we joined National Geographic expedition at Issyk-Kul Lake, searching for sunken Tamerlan’s Palace. It was really exciting adventure, we are looking forward to seeing a big piece in the National Geographic Magazine, and cannot tell you all the story. We should keep the secret.
Now just small announcement in the National Geographic Russia, March 2013 issue.
text: Bogdana Vashchenko, photo: Viktor Lyagushkin
Learning Cave Diving: Is It Difficult?
Great article by our great friend Pascal Bernabe dedicated to cave diving in X-Ray Magazine.
“Learning to dive the Earth’s interior” illustrated by Victor’s photos from Orda cave
Golden Turtle Contest 2013
Our congratulations to Kirill Ivanov, our videographer, who won the biggest wildlife contest in Russia Golden Turtle Contest 2013 with his movie “The Island Of Dancing Sardines” (Остров танцующих сардин). his diploma is on the left, and the movie is here:
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Victor wins at the festival “Golden Dolphin”
Yay! “Legends of the Caucasus” became the photo-winner in the category “Fresh Water” on the festival “Golden Dolphin” (Moscow, Russia). Congratulations, Victor!
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- It is possible that the water Teiri (spirit) also looks at us from under the water, and our life seems to him such as at this photo.
Ural Caves Gallery
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Secrets of Shipwrecks Photos
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Short photo set from our Secrets of Shipwrecks project. It is a part of Underwater Russian Heritage Project. Underwater Russian Heritage Project was supported by СJSC “Baltic Marine Company” (ЗАО «Балтийское морское общество»)
“Chasing the Light” Cover Story
This morning I’ve received a warm email from Jesse Blackadder, the author of a great novell “Chasing the Light”. It reads: “I’m the author of the book that features one of your exquisite photos on the cover. I’d really like to link to your website for more information about that shot. … I’m sure my readers will be fascinated – I’ve had so many great comments about the cover!”
Dear Jesse, that is a good question, I’ll tell you the story with pleasure. The woman on this photo is Natalie Avseenko, twice world champion in freediving.
These two women (Natalie’s and your heroine) were seperated with 80 years and resided on the opposite ends of the earth, but their stories seem to have similar features. These two women are very feminine and strong at the same time; I think, it was their inner integrity and fidelity to themselves made them who they are.
The shot had been captured by Viktor Lyagushkin in the White sea, behind the North Polar Circle, 2011. In this project Natalie freedived naked with white whales. Swimming with belugas was her child dream, but why she was naked? Continue reading
Russian America
Big story of the Russian Navy transport ship “America” in brilliant magazine Asian Diver #1/Vol 124 .
The story about famous ship and UW archaeologists work on finding and identifying of shipwrecks.
Early on a sunny morning of August 6, captain Andrey Sinitsyn commanded to cast off a 53-tonne diving boat 311 heading for the western-most point of Russia in the Gulf of Finland – the island of Hogland. So the 71st underwater archaeological expedition of the project Secrets of Shipwrecks started.
This time, the main task was to search for the remains of America. Nowadays, only the lonely graves in an abandoned island cemetery remind us of her death.