Photograph by Mathias Depardon
A young man jumps into the Black Sea near Novorossiysk, Russia. In 1942, the town was occupied by Germans, but a small unit of Soviet sailors defended a part of the town known as Malaya Zemlya for 225 days. Novorossiysk was awarded the title of "Hero City" in 1973.
Mathias Depardon s photo project, Black Sea Postcards, was featured on the National Geographic photography blog Proof »
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