Nobel Prize, Covid Surge and More: Russia's October, in Photos
From an unprecedented fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic to a Nobel Peace Prize for a leading independent newspaper's chief editor, Russia has had no shortage of major news events this month.
But outside the global headlines, ordinary life still goes on for many Russians — as it does in many of these photos.
Here's a look at the highlights of the month in photos:
But outside the global headlines, ordinary life still goes on for many Russians — as it does in many of these photos.
Here's a look at the highlights of the month in photos:
People in face masks walk on Park Zaryadye's floating bridge in central Moscow, a Kremlin tower and the Russian Foreign Ministry building visible in the distance.
Yuri Kadobnov / AFP
Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov after being named the winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize.
Sergei Bobylev / TASS
Women have lunch on the go on Nikolskaya Street near Red Square.
Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP
A Russian Emergency Situations Ministry worker disinfects Moscow's Savyolovsky railway station.
Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP
Firefighters work put out a fire at a gunpowder and chemicals plant in the Ryazan region which left 17 people dead.
Russian Emergency Situations Ministry
A medic works in the intensive care unit for Covid-19 coronavirus patients in the Moscow Sklifosovsky emergency hospital in Moscow on Oct. 20, 2021. That day, Russia set a new record of 1,028 coronavirus deaths, a record that has been topped several times since.
Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP
A man rides a scooter on a bridge near the Stalin-era Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building in central Moscow.
Yuri Kadobnov / AFP
Russia's presidential envoy to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov (L) shakes hands with Mawlawi Shahabuddin Dilawar, a member of the visiting Taliban delegation, prior to an international conference on Afghanistan in Moscow.
Alexander Zemlianichenko / POOL / AFP
A gas explosion devastated a five-story apartment building in Naberezhnye Chelny, 237 kilometers east of the city of Kazan. The blast destroyed several flats on the building's two upper floors.
Adelya Ziatdinova / TASS
A man walks across Red Square on the first day of Moscow's non-working period aimed at slowing the unprecedented rise in infections.
Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP
