The Kryashen ensemble, Tyganailar, performs at the social club in the village of Kryashen Eriksa, Tatarstan, Russia.- Villagers tend their plots in the Kryashen village of Dyusmetyevo in the Mamadysh region of Tatarstan, Russia.
- Ivan Zaitsev starts his early morning routine in the Kryashen village of Dyusmetyevo in the Mamadysh region of Tatarstan, Russia.
- A young girl helps her grandmother with chores in the Kryashen village of Kuluschi in the Mamadishsky region of Tatarstan, Russia.
- Marusya Nulinna prepares for her 80th birthday in the village of Chikchik. With only about 20 houses remaining, this village will soon die out.
- A picture of the Qul Sharif Mosque in Kazan hangs on a bedroom wall in the Tatar village of Aktanish.
- A woman prepares for a birthday feast in a tiny Tatar village in eastern Tatarstan.
- Tatars celebrate May Day under the Russian flag in the village of Chikchik. With only about 20 houses remaining, this village will soon die out.
- Zila Idrisova walks through her brother's garden in the village of Aktanish.
- Due in part to its oil reserves, Tatarstan is one of the wealthier republics in Russia.
- Villagers process from the brook to the church during a church re-opening ceremony in the Kaibitsi region of Tatarstan, Russia.
- A young girl kisses the cross during a church re-opening ceremony in the Kaibitsi region of Tatarstan, Russia.
- A girl plays on a swing in her disappearing Tatar village in eastern Tatarstan.
- "I'm waiting to die," says a 90-year-old woman in the vanishing village of Chikchik.
- During the winter, the temperature in Aktanish often dips below -25F.
- A Russian soap opera lights up the television in a Tatar home in Aktanish.
- Generations of Kryashens live in this Kryashen village in the Sarmonovsky region of Tatarstan, Russia.
- A Kryashen priest leads the ceremony to consecrate the grounds for a new church in the small village of Ivanaiyevo in the Ribnaya Clobada region of Tatarstan, Russia.
- Villagers cross themselves and bow to a birch tree during the celebration of Troitza in the village of Ulten-Buga in the Almetevsky region of Tatarstan, Russia.
- A former church, used as a social club in the Soviet era, sits decaying in the Kryashen village of Kuluschi in the Mamadishsky region of Tatarstan, Russia.
- Alcohol is the scourge of life in modern-day Russia and drinking combined with smoking cause many Russian men to die at a young age.
- A museum worker gives visitors a tour of the Udmurt national heritage museum in northern Tatarstan.
- Beauty contestants line up to go on stage during Petrov Den in the Mamadishsky region of Tatarstan, Russia.
- Marusya Nulinna celebrates her 80th birthday in the village of Chikchik. With only about 20 houses remaining, this village will soon die out.
- Ezheria Idrisova waves goodbye to a friend in the vanishing village of Chikchik.
