Kukushkin (Cuckoo) Rock on the Chusovaya River

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1912 • Ural Mountains Region, ChusovaiA River

Kukushkin (Cuckoo) Rock on the Chusovaya River, Ural Mountains Region, ChusovaiA River, 1912

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Kukushkin (Cuckoo) Rock on the Chusovaya River — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1912 (Ural Mountains Region, ChusovaiA River).

Subjects: rock formations, ural mountains region, boats, cliffs, rivers.

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

Original Russian caption: Kamenʹ Kukushkin. [Rieka Chusovaia].