Limestone Quarries near the Upper Volga Dam

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1910 • Volga River Region

Limestone Quarries near the Upper Volga Dam, Volga River Region, 1910

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Limestone Quarries near the Upper Volga Dam — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1910 (Volga River Region).

Subjects: cliffs, volga river region.

Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.

Original Russian caption: Izvestkovyia lomki v 5-ti v. ot beĭshlota.