Russian cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov published photographs of the Kuril Islands, taken from aboard the International Space Station. The pictures were taken from an altitude of about 400 kilometers.

The Kuril Islands are one of Russia's most remote regions. The archipelago of volcanic origin is located between the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Japanese island of Hokkaido.

Earlier, Kud-Sverchkov published unique photos taken during a spacewalk on May 27. According to him, the crew completed all assigned tasks. The most labor-intensive of these was the extraction of a cassette with the results of a molecular beam epitaxy experiment from equipment installed on the Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module.