Amid the continuing coronavirus pandemic, August of 2020 was a month when many people rushed to make the best of what summer usually offers: swimming, sunbathing, looking into starlit skies and having a real rest that was certainly different from what we all had while self-isolating several months ago.
As life is gradually getting back to normal in Russia with strict coronavirus restrictions being lifted, different sports and cultural events have been taking place in the country, allowing people to meet with friends and learn something new.
Sputnik has selected the creme de la creme out of its vast collection of pictures, check them out to have a virtual trip into the Russian summer.
The winner of the Miss MAXIM-2020 beauty and sexuality contest, Oktyabrina Maksimova (Veliky Novgorod) (C) and the finalists
Protesters and a security officer in Minsk, Belarus. 14 August 2020
People rest in the Burlinskoye lake in Russia's Altay region. A railway line is needed to remove salt which is being extracted from the lake.
Girls run across the road during the rain in Moscow.
Explosion at the port of Beirut, Lebanon.
Anti-government protesters clash with riot police in Beirut.
Children take part in the CINEMA FASHION show at the Mosfilm studio in Moscow.
Su-35C jets of the "Russian Knights" aerobatic team perform a demonstration flight at the Army-2020 forum outside Moscow.
Vacationers on an embankment in Koktebel, Crimea.
Road maintenance vehicles in Tverskaya street in Moscow
Uzbekistan's T-72 tank during the 'Tank Biathlon-2020' competitions in Alabino outside Moscow.
Archpriest Bogdan Severin during a festive service in a church in Simferopol.
Russian President Vladimir Putin during an online conference with members of the cabinet on 11 August 2020
Participants of the international SUP-surfing festival, Fontanka-SUP, in Saint Petersburg.
Soldiers of the Russian Baltic Fleet get off a Ka-27 PC helicopter during drills.
A male Siberian lynx called Buran rests in a hammock at the Royev Ruchei park in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.
Soldiers of the Republic of Congo's army during the Army-2020 international competitions in Russia's Novosibirsk.
Vacationers in Crimea
Cleaning up for oil spilled from the Saida vessel which capsized following a fire in Murmansk
Dog handler at the Vladivostok search and rescue department of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, Yekaterina Vorontsova, with her mittelshnauzer Wolt during exercises.
Children play in the street in Lorino village in Russia's Chukotka.
A woman takes part in a half-marathon in Moscow
Ursula the white bear which was found as an abandoned cub in the Arctic in 2018 plays in a pool at the Royev Ruchei park in Krasnoyarsk.
Sports coach Yulia Boyarintseva (L) and businesswoman Yelena Pyatovskaya during a yoga class on SUP-boards in the Yenisei river in Krasnoyarsk region.
Starlit sky during the Perseid meteor shower observed in Russia's Krasnodar region.
A paratrooper is taking selfie with his family on the Airborne Forces Day in the Gorky Park in Moscow.
A stuntman at an international bike show outside Sevastopol
Blooming lotuses in a lake outside Ussuriysk in Russia's Primorsky region.
Participants in the 10-km Night Race 2020 in Moscow
Whalers are hunting in the Bering Strait
Employees of the Russian Railways wait for passengers near a new tourist train "Sochi"
Man collects melons and watermelons in Krasnodar region
