The «Wild Underwater World» Festival has been held since 2015 and has already become a traditional and anticipated event. Every year the festival starts in Moscow, at the State Darwin Museum, and then successfully travels around the country. Now the festival is widely known and anticipated in Omsk, Kaliningrad, Uglich, Saransk, Naberezhnye Chelny, Kislovodsk, Obninsk, and Minsk. The geography of the festival continues to expand.

The goal of the festival is to introduce the audience to the beauty of the underwater world and its wonderful inhabitants. About fifty underwater photographers from Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus, Sweden, Germany, the Philippines and Thailand provided more than 100 new underwater photos taken in different seas, oceans, lakes, and rivers across the planet. Winners and laureates of prestigious Russian and international competitions have participated in the festival together with aspiring underwater photographers. For photographers, it is a wonderful opportunity to share their work with a wide audience as well as to educate and inspire the younger generation.

The exhibition features amazing, mysterious and, sometimes, very extravagant inhabitants of the sea. You will get to see the smallest organisms like sea angels and tiny shrimps in great detail and fearlessly approach impressive predators like a white shark, a Nile crocodile, or a giant jellyfish with stinging tentacles.

In 2021 the festival includes a thematic exhibition "Russian Waters". Russia is washed by twelve seas of the World Ocean. There are small and large rivers and more than two million lakes on its vast territory. Let's take a closer look at the inhabitants of the Russian seas, lakes, and rivers. 

The main partners of the Festival are the State Darwin Museum and the Russian Union of Wildlife Photographers.

We invite the visitors to dive in and take a look at the amazing underwater world through the eyes of our photographers!

Marina Deriglazova. Kaleidoscope

Andrey Nosik. Sea Angel

Pavel Osada. The flight

Yuriy Perevoznikov. Hide and seek

Pavel Chistyakov. Humpback whale