Best of Russia 2015: Splendid nature to fall in love with

Ruskeala Mountain Park and tourist center, Karelia.

White silence, North Urals.

A sleeping deer in a national reserve.

Polar lights in Murmansk, Northern Russia.

White Bengal tiger cub playing with his mother in an open-air cage in Novosibirsk Zoo.

Volcanic lava cooling down in the cracks of the ground at the Tolbachik volcano complex, Kamchatka Peninsula.

Male European bee-eater trying to get the attention of his chosen one.

ANATOLYI LAPTEVThe ideal beginning to a trip, Teberdinsky Nature Reserve, the Caucasus.

Karymsky, an active volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula.

A bongo antelope, one of the largest African forest antelope species, in the Moscow Zoo.

Under the dome of the rainbow.