Kich Gorodok + Gorelovka, Olya Ivanova

Kich Gorodok + Gorelovka, Olya Ivanova
Published by Atem Books in June 2011 under “Atemkristall” collection.
19x19cm, 78 pages, 115gr matte paper, full color.
A book with 2 covers: one for “Kich Gorodok” project and another one for “Gorelovka” project.

Kich Gorodok: Portraits of local people living in dying villages around Kichmengsky Town (locals call it Kich Gorodok), a district center in Vologda region, Russia.

Gorelovka: Gorelovka is small village in the middle of taiga in 800 km from Novosibirsk. This place is hard to find even in the Google Map. That’s why it is the best place to escape and hide. Many years ago Christian Old Believers came here to avoid church reform. Then ‘kulaks’ (wealthy peasant) chose this place to escape from Soviet rule. Now many ‘new world antagonists’ came here to live without passports, internet, personal numbers and government.