Year on the Yenisei River

Reuters photographer Ilya Naimushin is based in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia's third largest city. Krasnoyarsk and many neighboring settlements are located on the Yenisei River, one of the largest river systems in the world, which provides local residents with energy, transport, food, and conditions for tourism. The Yenisei originates in Mongolia and flows into the Arctic Ocean. This issue contains photographs of Naimushin, who throughout the year documented life on the Yenisei.

(Total 38 photos)

1. A girl poses for a photographer on the banks of the Yenisei River near Krasnoyarsk on January 8, 2013. The temperature that day was minus 25 degrees Celsius.

2. Hills on the banks of the Yenisei in the Siberian taiga, August 28, 2012.

3. A man jumps into a river in Krasnoyarsk on July 25, 2012.

4. The train moves along the Yenisei near the village of Sliznevo, June 28, 2012.

5. Local residents sit on the banks of the Yenisei. The picture was taken south of Krasnoyarsk on September 13, 2012.

6. Locals fishing on the Yenisei, about 45 km south of Krasnoyarsk, September 22, 2012. In the background, a barge is being transported across the dam using the ship lift of the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Plant.

7. Steam over the Yenisei River at an air temperature of minus 10 degrees Celsius, October 27, 2012.

8. A woman walks along the banks of the Yenisei River, December 24, 2012. The air temperature that day was minus 26 degrees Celsius.

9. Valery Kokoulin, 47, dressed as Santa Claus, rings a bell on his homemade yacht to mark the end of the shipping season on the Yenisei, on December 7, 2012. The air temperature that day dropped to minus 23 degrees Celsius.

10. Girls stand near a reproduction of a painting by artist Vasily Surikov during the 1st International Festival of Snow and Ice Sculptures "Magic Ice of Siberia" on the banks of the Yenisei in Krasnoyarsk, January 14, 2013.

11. Alexei Vasyukov (left) and Mikhail Rukosuev from Perm work on a snow sculpture based on the work of the Italian Renaissance artist and sculptor Michelangelo at the Magic Ice of Siberia festival on January 17, 2013.

12. A child walks along the banks of the Yenisei outside Krasnoyarsk on January 2, 2013.

13. Novoeniseisky wood-chemical complex on the banks of the Yenisei River in Lesosibirsk, 300 km north of Krasnoyarsk, January 31, 2013. The company exports timber to Europe, North Africa and Asia.

14. Employees of the Novoeniseysk timber and chemical complex, January 31, 2013. The outdoor work continues throughout the year, regardless of the temperature, which can drop to minus 45 degrees Celsius.

15. Workers check their equipment for sorting logs at Novoeniseysky LHK in Lesosibirsk, January 31, 2013.

16. Fishermen on the frozen Yenisei River at minus 25 degrees Celsius near the village of Khmelniki on December 20, 2012.

17. Ice fishing on the Yenisei in Novoselovo, 240 km south of Krasnoyarsk, on March 16, 2013.

18. People cross the frozen Yenisei south of Krasnoyarsk, February 4, 2013.

19. Dmitry Borisov, who recently returned from service in the Navy, bathes in the Yenisei River near Divnogorsk, January 23, 2013.

20. Rescuers patrol the frozen Yenisei on a Khivus-10 hovercraft on April 18, 2013.

21. Rescuers dive to a depth of 12 meters as part of a weekly training on the Yenisei River south of Krasnoyarsk, April 18, 2013.

22. Amateur regional kitesurfing championship on the frozen Yenisei River south of Krasnoyarsk, March 31, 2013.

23. 59-year-old resident of Zheleznogorsk and member of the walrus club Cryophil Vladimir Samsonov sits on an ice floe on the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk, April 26, 2013.

24. Amateur shipbuilder Alexander Marchenko works on building a 17th-century-style wooden boat off the banks of the Yenisei River in Khakassia, 520km south of Krasnoyarsk, on March 24, 2013. He plans to use the ship as a Yenisei tourist attraction.

25. A woman with a child greets the passengers of the ship near the village of Galanino, June 13, 2013.

26. UAZ rides through the mud on the banks of the Yenisei River near the village of Antsiferovo, July 23, 2013.

27. A herd of cows graze on the banks of the Yenisei near the village of Antsiferovo, July 24, 2013.

28. A man pours milk from one container to another on the banks of the Yenisei near the village of Pogodaevo, June 16, 2013. The milk was delivered by boat from the remote village of Antsiferovo.

29. A patrol boat moves along the Yenisei River near the Shugur base in the Sayano-Shushensky Reserve, 760 km south of Krasnoyarsk, on May 25, 2013. The expedition was organized to discover possible places for ecotourism. The reserve is known as a habitat for a small population of snow leopards.

30. A woman sunbathes on an island in the middle of the Angara River, a tributary of the Yenisei, on June 16, 2013.

31. Captain Vasily Kropachev works at the shipyard of the river fleet in the village of Podtesovo, June 15, 2013.

32. Abandoned ships at the shipyard in the village of Podtesovo, June 15, 2013.

33. Pyotr Alekseev checks the underside of a Rocket hydrofoil boat in Krasnoyarsk on July 1, 2013.

34. A man stands among the logs that were left after the flood as a result of a dam failure of the reservoir near the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, 530 km south of Krasnoyarsk, May 24, 2013.

35. Members of the children's folk dance ensemble Angaryata from Kodinsk rehearse a Hutsul folk dance on the banks of the Yenisei before performing at the 21st inter-regional festival "At the Marvelous Mountains" in Divnogorsk, June 8, 2013. Hundreds of children from villages and cities of Siberia took part in the festival of music and arts.

36. A bride plays the piano for her fiance in a park in Krasnoyarsk on August 9, 2013. Young enthusiasts bought a Soviet-made piano, painted it white and installed it in the park for everyone to use.

37. The dam of the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP on the Yenisei River, May 27, 2013.

38. People look at the spillway at the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP, August 22, 2013.