Daily life in Russia – your photos

Sunbathers at Moscow's Patriarshiye Prudy (Patriarch's Ponds), an oasis of calm in an upmarket area of the Russia capital often favoured by expats. Photograph: Zoe Wittering/GuardianWitness

Practicing parkour in the city of Perm. The gravity-defying sport of parkour, invented in France in 1980s, involves using urban environments as a kind of obstacle course. Photograph:Charlotte Strawbridge/GuardianWitness

Just chilling at the supermarket in Yekaterinburg. Photograph: Alexey Ponomarchuk/GuardianWitness

"A normal wedding with local MC... it is important to make a wedding fun and interesting". Photograph: Nadir Khabdulin/GuardianWitness

Siberia in the summer. Photograph: Barbara Guthrie/GuardianWitness

Getting hitched on a boat in front of the fountains on the River Neva, St Petersburg. Photograph: ID2348830/GuardianWitness

"Uncle Andrei at the dacha" (a summer house in the country). jamesrowlins, who submitted the photo, says: "Uncle Andrei has a treasure trove of Soviet memorabilia! Here he is sporting a Soviet pilot's headgear. The t-shirt is more modern". Photograph: jamesrowlins/GuardianWitness

Train platform vendors selling fruit and veg in Yekaterinburg. Photograph: billyliar1970 /GuardianWitness

On the phone, keeping warm, shot by Zoe Wittering outside Tretyakovskaya metro station, central Moscow. Photograph: Zoe Wittering/GuardianWitness

A shaman at work on Olkhon Island in Lake Baikal, eastern Siberia. Photograph: MoscowMuse/GuardianWitness

A goat stares out of a house over the shores of Lake Baikal. Photograph: Bennoo/GuardianWitness

Table tennis in Moscow's Gorky Park. Photograph: cloudykrobi/GuardianWitness

Women dressed in traditional clothing at a bazaar in Moscow. Photograph: kloostervrouw/GuardianWitness

The Taganai mountain range in the Chelyabinsk region. On Mount Kruglitsa, Oleg runs a hut for hikers. He "likes to drink shots of vodka with hikers and cook mushrooms picked from the forest," says imperial12. Photograph: imperial12/GuardianWitness

The dried fish market in Listvyanka, near Lake Baikal. Photograph: Barbara Guthrie/GuardianWitness

Student revellers celebrate the end of exams in Manezhnaya Square, Moscow. Photograph: Zoe Wittering/GuardianWitness

Space for one more? FabianMuir on summer vacation in Sochi-Adler. Photograph: FabianMuir/GuardianWitness

Morning in the stolovaya (an inexpensive, Soviet-style cafe). Photograph: Murjam/GuardianWitness

Paragliding over Pskov. Photograph: jamesrowlins/GuardianWitness

A couple sit by a church in Irkutsk, one of the largest cities in Siberia. Photograph: FabianMuir/GuardianWitness

On the great lakes of northern Russia. This shot was taken by AnnSofia2, who says she travelled to the city of Petrozavodsk in Karelia three years ago to learn Russian. Photograph: AnnSofia2/GuardianWitness

A shashlik (a type of kebab popular in eastern Europe and Asia) cooked on a barbecue in winter. Photograph: gary4/GuardianWitness

A horse keeps warm in the city of Nizhnevartovsk on the Ob River, during the Christian celebration of Maslenitsa. Photograph: Simon Lowther/GuardianWitness

The table's ready! "You may see this type of dinner setting done in many Russian families. Usually for some celebration - birthday, New Year's Eve," says Maxim Karlov. Photograph: Maxim Karlov/GuardianWitness

Moscow's Red Square at Christmas, taken on a disposable camera by Laura Burrows, who says she studies Russian at the University of Leeds. She says she took this picture (and hundreds more) on a year abroad at Moscow State University. Photograph: Laura Burrows/GuardianWitness