In the summer of 2018, Sergey Nikolaev joined the documentary ranks of NCU and became a full member of the union. He lived in Zaporozhye from 1958 until 1991 and started his career as a photographer in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, in the Zaporozhye Photo Club. Since 1991 Sergey has been living and working in Moscow. Since 1991 Sergey has been living and working in Moscow.
Russia: Beyond the 101st kilometre
Sergey’s first series published on the NCU is called Russia: Beyond the 101st kilometre. “One hundred and first kilometre”, as an unofficial term, is well known to the generation that lived in the former USSR. The minimum distance from Moscow already defined a kind of status that was radically different from life in the capital. This life in the regions attracted Sergei with its directness and drama. The period of filming on the subject of interest to the author stretches over two decades and covers all the key moments of the country’s transformation. It would seem that not much has changed in the visuals shown in the series over the years. And yet, the main idea, read in every frame, leaves no shadow of doubt that the people who accidentally get on Sergey Nikolaev’s path, patient, hard-working, simple people, in their overwhelming majority remain People.
events

Tartu 2019

Alexander Shchemliaev

David Verberckt

Narva 2018

Vitebsk 2018

Sergey Trapezin

Eugene Kanaev

Viktor Ratushny

Odessa 2013

Nizhny Novgorod 2013

Yekaterinburg 2012

Anna Voitenko

Alex Melia

Eric Gourlan
