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Published July 18, 2009, 12:00 AM

Photo Gallery: Russians on the wall


Julia Kuzmina looks down at her friends while scaling the climbing wall at the College of St. Scholastica Tuesday. Kuzmina is one of 23 Russians visiting CSS this month for the annual Russian-American Language Camp. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)

  • Julia Kuzmina looks down at her friends while scaling the climbing wall at the College of St. Scholastica Tuesday. Kuzmina is one of 23 Russians visiting CSS this month for the annual Russian-American Language Camp. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
  • Kevin Shangle (right) and Danielle Hischer (blue shirt) share a laugh with some of the Russians visiting Duluth before teaching them how to climb on the College of St. Scholastica’s climbing wall Tuesday. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
  • Darja Arkhipova climbs the CSS climbing wall. Arkhipova is one of 20 Russian students, two faculty members and one sponsor visiting CSS from Karelian State Pedagogical University in Petrozavodsk, Russia. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
  • Darja Arkhipova is lowered to the floor after completing her climb. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
  • Anna Dzhalalyan struggles low on the wall. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
  • Alla Sakharova (left) and Julia Kuzmina help Anna Dzhalalyan up over a rough spot. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
  • Two climbers work their way up the 40-foot-high climbing wall. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)