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| Intersection to Medvezhe looking east. |
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| A beautiful long alley takes us to the village. |
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| Most of the houses seems to have disappeared. A huge numbers of sand piles witnessed about relatively recent renovation. |
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| This square appeared to have been the centre of Medvezhe. Only a framework of a building was left. Notice that It is here the Medvezhe street curves northeast. |
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| This bus shed next to the village square was the less destroyed building in the entire exclave. |
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| A few houses had not collapsed, but it was not possible to see if any of them had been recently used. |
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| At the beginning of the curve the eastern exclave border meets the Republic of Belarus along a ditch. The birch trees are in Belarus. From this point there is only about 3 km through a Byelorussian forest road to mainland Russia. This route is frequently used by alcohol and cigarette smugglers transporting cheap Byelorussian contraband. |
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| The eastern borderline (from north towards south) is following the ditch or edge of forest. |
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| The eastern borderline (from south towards north) is following the ditch or edge of forest (approximately in the middle of this photo. |
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| Many places inside Byelorussian territory we found atomic warning signs put up on trees. |
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| Photo of the forest road taken east of the exclave (photo towards northeast). |
