Heat Wave

Two men cooling down with some evening beers on Ulitsa Vozdvizhenka.

Some shirtless young men loitering at the entrance of Belorussky Station.

A group of men from the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, an unrecognized state between Azerbaijan and Armenia, sitting on a bench on Manezh Square.

Two people resting in the grass on Manezh Square as the sun mercifully goes down.

A man treading dangerously close to falling into the fountain near Kievsky Station.

A girl sitting on Manezh Square in the twilight.

Women resting in the early evening shade on Gogolevsky Bulvar.

Muscovites tolerating the metro, which gets especially humid and aromatic in the summer.

A child playing in the fountain on Manezh Square.

Soldiers in heavy military clothing sitting in the back of a hot truck near the Kievskaya metro station.

A visibly sunburned woman holding a child at a bus stop near the Savyolovsky metro station.

Girls sitting near Ulitsa Vozdvizhenka as pigeons lurk nearby, hoping for a snack.