Picking up where I left off with Latvian photography last week, today I am continuing my tour of photographic highlights from Eastern Europe, and I have put together a bumper collection of links from Russia for you. Enjoy!

The Fotomuseum Winterthur is currently showing a retrospective of Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov's work documenting the social and historical conditions of the former Soviet Union, and life in Russia after the Soviet Union's demise in 1989. He was also awarded the Citibank Photography Prize in 2001.

Alexei Titarenko creates beautiful medium-format sepia-toned images of St Petersburg. Using long exposure techniques, the city looks deserted and yet timeless, filled with only traces and shadows of the people living there.

Alexey Tikhonov photographs his friends and his city, as well as being a street photography enthusiast.

Sergei Maximishin is a photojournalist who grew up in the Crimea, and served as a Soviet army photographer in Cuba in the mid 1980s. He has a great selection of singles and photo essays from Russia, India, and Iraq.

While I can't read the Russian on Georgij Poilov's site, I would suggest you just click through some of the links to take a look at his diverse photography styles. When you mouseover the links on the home page, the changing reflected images in the camera lens are rather cool!

Andrey Chezhin is an interesting conceptual photographer who makes lovely black and white diptychs as well as series of prints, created from transposed negatives, shot in Amsterdam, New York, St Petersburg, Stockholm and Warsaw.

photographer.ru is a good Russian photography site available in English (click the English link at top right). In one article, Pedro Meyer and Ivan Sigal write about photojournalists flocking to Central Asia and the Middle East to gain access to Afghanistan, following 9/11.

This site documents the beautiful decorations of the Moscow underground, displayed as QTVR and still images of architectural details, mosaics and other interesting features (via madspedersen).

I'll be finishing this thread with Finnish photography highlights shortly.