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Vasilyevsky Island in Sankt Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999
#08,09: A. V. Sergeev and <A HREF="../../../../files/soi/sherstyu/index.htm">A. I. Sherstyuk</A> in the lab
#12,13: <A HREF="../../../../files/soi/sherstyu/index.htm">A. I. Sherstyuk</A>
among co-workers and in the institute's museum
#15-17: The institute's museum, former typewritting office
#18,20: Repin Street on Vasilyevsky Island near the institute



#00 A new building of S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute
facing a restricted access extension of Bolshoi Prospect of Vasilyevsky Island. 
St. Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.

#03 Barbed wire surrounding huge restricted access territory
of S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute 
(attached to Defense Ministry) at an eastern part of Vasilyevsky Island. 
St. Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.

#05 A monument to a Soviet academician S. I. Vavilov
(a brother of a well-known biologist executed for political reasons)
in front of a new building of S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute.
The monument faces barbed wire surrounding the institute at Vasilyevsky Island.
St. Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.

#08 A. V. Sergeev in his lab of the former 16th Department of S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute.
A chemical bottle is intended for watering a plant,
it is labelled 'pit nelzya' (don't drink in Russian).
Vasilyevsky Island,
St. Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.

#09 A. I. Sherstyuk in the lab of the former 16th Department of S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute.
The room is occupied by an atomic spectroscopy group.
Vasilyevsky Island,
St. Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.

#12 A. I. Sherstyuk among co-workers in the lab of the former 16th Department of S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute.
The room is occupied by an atomic spectroscopy group.
Vasilyevsky Island,
St. Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.

#13 A. I. Sherstyuk in a museum of S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute,
under portraits of founders of the institute (1918).
Vasilyevsky Island,
St. Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.

#15 Museum of S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute with an old artistically decorated chimney
and a Soviet-era exposition.
The museum was settled in a former typewriting office
(the room has reach interior because the building was expropriated from a wealthy family after the Great October Socialist Revolution).
Vasilyevsky Island,
St. Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.

#16 Museum of S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute, decorations on the ceiling
(the room has reach interior because the building was expropriated from a wealthy family after the Great October Socialist Revolution).
Vasilyevsky Island,
St. Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.

#17 Museum of S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute with an old artistically decorated chimney
and a Soviet-era exposition.
(the room has reach interior because the building was expropriated from a wealthy family after the Great October Socialist Revolution).
Vasilyevsky Island,
St. Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.

#18 Repin Street on Vasilyevsky Island paved by cobble-stones.
St. Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.

#20 Repin Street on Vasilyevsky Island.
People are walking from Sredniy Prospect.
St. Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.