Published 16:46 IST, March 22nd 2020

Russian photographer went to Serbia for 10 days, shocked by COVID-19 upon return

Russian photographer Avdeev left in late February with a group of reindeer herders on snowmobile to Yakutia, and completely cut-off from the rest of the world.

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A Russian photographer who h set out on a tritional excursion roaming into wilderness in far rth was reportedly shocked to kw about coronavirus global pandemic. Max Avdeev left in late February with a group of reindeer herders on swmobiles to Yakutia, and completely cut-off from rest of world.

Avdeev shared his experience on Facebook saying, “A couple of weeks ago, I left for wilderness in rth of Yakutia to shoot deer stands. re was connection re. It's t hard to imagine my surprise when day before yesterday I opened news to re what happened during my absence,” Russian post translated. His friend named Alexey Amyotov wrote while narrating incident, “Imagine his face when he comes back and goes on internet. While he was away: Putin fell off, rubble fell, borders in Europe closed, planes do t fly. In short, I was looking forward to his reaction.”

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Did t imagine coronavirus

Avdeev told news ncies that it was his third trip to eastern Siberia that’s just roughly 20 per cent of Russia’s territory, and coldest region on Earth. Last he visited region was to finish and an eight-year project that he wanted to publish in a book, he ded. He was quoted saying that when he started his journey, a federal judge h sentenced Roger Stone to three years in prison, and Russia was blamed to have interfered in Democratic primaries to aid Senator Bernie Sanders. He did t quite imagine that a pandemic termed as “coronavirus” would have hit world when he returned, he said.

Facebook poured in supportive comments for Avdeev. “And how do you like return?” wrote a user, “And yes, stop this mness with your beautiful, or it's alrey hard to tolerate", he ded. Ar user replied, “He is saturated, curious. A bright shock for a better change.”