Right Bank of the Irtysh near Tobolsk, from the Southeast

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1912 • Western, Irtysh River, Siberia

Right Bank of the Irtysh near Tobolsk, from the Southeast, Western, Irtysh River, Siberia, 1912

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Right Bank of the Irtysh near Tobolsk, from the Southeast — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1912 (Western, Irtysh River, Siberia).

Subjects: irtysh river, rivers, levees, siberia, western.

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

Original Russian caption: Pravyĭ bereg Irtysha u Tobolʹska s iugo-vostoka.