The best photos of Amur tigers are on show in a photo exhibition in the domestic arrivals area of the Vladivostok International Airport.

The exhibition consists of 10 photos by professional photographers Sergei Gorshkov, Andrei Grachev, Yury Smityuk, Gennady Shalikov, Alexander Khitrov, Yevgeny Tabalykin, Sergei Balbashov, Svetlana Sutyrina and Sascha Fonseca. Each photo has a QR code, which when scanned, leads to the Amur Tiger Centre website, where visitors can find out more about Amur tigers and the centre’s work to study and preserve the Amur tiger population in Russia.

 “The previous exhibition went on display in the airport in 2016, on the eve of Tiger Day, and showed passengers arriving in Vladivostok about the life of tigers for a long time. But life does not stand still, and over the next five years, photographers took many excellent pictures of the striped wild cat that are worthy of replacing the old pictures. We are grateful to the Vladivostok International Airport for its continuous attention to and support for projects on conserving rare animals and the unique nature of the Far East,” said Sergei Aramilev, director general of the Amur Tiger Centre.

The Amur Tiger Centre and the Vladivostok International Airport, under their cooperation agreement, regularly hold events aimed at raising public awareness about preserving the Amur tiger. Thus, in July 2020, on the eve of International Tiger Day (29 July), the centre and the airport organised a photo exhibition devoted to the 85^th anniversary of the Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Reserve in the passenger terminal. On Tiger Day 2020, the airport hosted a special event featuring a tiger flash mob.