Сель (Mudflow)

Cars stacked onto one another after a mudflow hit the Simferopol-Sudak highway in southeastern Crimea, early on August 19, 2017. Photo: Alexander Kiriakov/TASS via Getty Images.

Rolling blackout

Yalta, Ukraine: Men play chess by torchlight after the area lost power when pylons were destroyed. The Crimean authorities have declared a state of emergency and introduced restrictions on electricity use. Photo: TASS/Barcroft Media.

Двадцать тысяч льё под водой (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea)

Sevastopol, Russia: President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin submerges on board C-Explorer 3 bathyscaphe into the Black Sea to explore sunken shipwrecks. Photo: Alexei Nikolsky/AFP/Getty Images.

Δαίδαλος (Daedalus)

A man throws a girl into the air at the National Reserve in the Black Sea port in Sevastopol, Crimea. Photo: Pavel Rebrov/Reuters.

Бородино (Borodino)

• Карпов хочет открыть шахматную школу в Крыму (Karpov wants to open a branch of his chess school in Crimea), RIA Novosti (Crimea), July 20, 2015

Twelfth World Chess Champion Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov confirmed his intention to open a branch of his chess school in Simferopol, Crimea, provided that all issues concerning the building are resolved and the place renovated. [Read more].

Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov
Photo: Ilya Pitalev | RIA Novosti (Crimea)