What does Russia look like from space?

Every week, the European Space Agency (ESA) publishes a photo of some amazing corner of the world on its website. The satellite that sends images to Earth has repeatedly flown over many countries, including Russia. How does this huge "space camera" see our country?

Taiga, rivers, volcanoes, megacities and a lot of snow — that's what Russia looks like in the images from orbit. Over the past ten years, the satellite has managed to fly over Samoilovsky Island in the Lena River Delta, capture smoke from huge forest fires that choked the whole country in the summer of 2010, sail over St. Petersburg, photograph Lake Ladoga, capture the formidable ice of the Baltic Sea and at the same time visit the Baltic in summer. From the height of the satellite's flight, blue-green algae on the surface of the Baltic Sea resemble a huge bizarre pattern.

The northwest of the Russian Arctic is the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Pechora Sea.

The Baltic Sea in winter.

Summer Baltic. Blue-green algae are visible on the surface of the sea.

The Amur River and the Russian-Chinese border.

The eastern coast of Kamchatka. In the center is Klyuchevskaya Sopka, the highest active volcano in Eurasia.

Kamchatka Peninsula.

Klyuchevskaya sopka.

Lena Delta.

Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

The Russian Far East: the coast of the Sea of Japan and Sikhote-Alin.

Yakutsk and the surrounding area.

The Sea of Okhotsk.

Bratskoe reservoir on the Hangar.

Smoke from forest fires over Moscow, July 2010.

Winter Siberia. The Yenisei is visible in the lower left corner.

St. Petersburg and Lake Ladoga.

The Tsimlyansk reservoir on the Don.

The Volga flows into the Caspian Sea

Yenisei.