THE FINALISTS OF THE GOLDEN TURTLE 2026 PHOTO CONTEST HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED
The finalists of the Golden Turtle Photo contest are as follows:
The "passing scores" of the photo contest are (the highest and lowest scores for each work are not included in the final score):
Animal Behaviour - 18
Animals in the Environment - 18
Art and Nature's Image - 18
Humans and nature - 18
Landscape - 19
Magic of Plants - 18
Microcosm - 19
Mobile Photography - 19
Nature through the eyes of children - 17
Nature through the eyes of youth - 17
Reserved Russia - 16
The Portrait of the Animal - 17
The underwater world - 18
| Sarthak Agrawal | India |
| Salahuddin Ahmed | Bangladesh |
| Timea Ambrus | Hungary |
| Vadim Andreev | Russia |
| Andrey Artamonov | Russia |
| Natalya Bachkova | Russia |
| Andrey Balta | Russia |
| Rajarshi Banerji | India |
| Vasily Baranyuk | Russia |
| Mauro Battistelli | Italy |
| Lyudmila Begunova | Russia |
| Kapil Bhagwat | India |
| Soumya Ranjan Bhattacharyya | India |
| Ivan Borovkov | Russia |
| Denis Budkov | Russia |
| Rahul Chakraborty | India |
| Soumen Chanda | India |
| Gabriella Comi | Italy |
| Pierre-Victorien Compagnon | France |
| Elisa Confortini | Italy |
| Juan Cuetos | Spain |
| Arijit Das | India |
| Sumon Das | India |
| Loredana De Sole | Italy |
| Bagchi Debabrata | India |
| Denis Degtyarev | Russia |
| Franco Dell'Aqua | Italy |
| Joel Delmas | France |
| Anna Denisova | Russia |
| Ryan Dhika Nugraha | Indonesia |
| Shah Dilip | India |
| Evgeny Dubynin | Russia |
| Anirban Dutta | India |
| Ramprasad Dutta | India |
| Amit Eshel | Israel |
| Julián Fernandez Quilez | Spain |
| László Földi | Hungary |
| Roman Fomin | Russia |
| Zhang Fuqiang | China |
| Gil Gautier | France |
| Marina Gavrikova | Russia |
| Viraj Ghaisas | India |
| Kaushik Ghosh | India |
| Andrey Gilyov | Russia |
| Massimo Giorgetta | Italy |
| Vitaly Gorshkov | Russia |
| Ivan Gorshkov | Russia |
| Fabien Greban | France |
| David Greyo | Switzerland |
| Andrey Gusarov | Russia |
| Arjun Haarith | India |
| Sultan Mohammed Asif Hossain | Bangladesh |
| Rochana Illeperuma | Sri Lanka |
| Dmitry Ivanov | Russia |
| Andrea Izzotti | Italy |
| Hao Jinfang | China |
| Ananda Joinet | France |
| Bidyut Kalita | India |
| Lakshitha Karunarathna | Sri Lanka |
| Norbert Kaszás | Hungary |
| Jannico Kelk | Australia |
| Mikhail Kharitonychev | Russia |
| Natalya Klementyeva | Russia |
| Dmitry Kokh | Russia |
| Ilse Koks | Netherlands |
| Irina Koledova | Russia |
| Svetlana Koltsova | Russia |
| Anton Komlev | Russia |
| Aleksey Korolev | Russia |
| Vladimir Korovyakovsky | Russia |
| Vladislav Kostylev | Russia |
| Ivan Krivtsov | Russia |
| Sritam Kumar Sethy | India |
| Chen Kunping | China |
| Andrey Kuznetsov | Russia |
| Pallavi Laveti | India |
| Elena Lebedeva | Russia |
| Tibor Litauszki | Hungary |
| Gaoshan Liushui | China |
| Nathan Livartowski | France |
| Roman Lobanov | Russia |
| Vadim Makhorov | Russia |
| Minudika Malshan Gammanpila | Singapore |
| Ashane Marasinghe | Finland |
| Giacomo Marchione | Italy |
| Vladimir Mats | Russia |
| David Mediavilla | Spain |
| Dmitry Melgunov | Russia |
| Igor Metelsky | Russia |
| Kseniya Mikhailova | Russia |
| Yuan Minghui | China |
| Aleksey Molchanov | Russia |
| Kevin Morgans | UK |
| Nadezhda Muravyeva | Russia |
| Olga Musienko | Russia |
| Li Naitao | China |
| Andrey Narchuk | Russia |
| Egor Nikiforov | Russia |
| Andrey Nikulin | Russia |
| Andrey Nosik | Russia |
| Harun Özalp | Turkey |
| Maksymilian Paczkowski | Poland |
| Nicolas Perez | Argentina |
| Csaba Pintér | Hungary |
| Anatoly Plechisty | Russia |
| Dario Podesta | Argentina |
| Vasilisa Podgrushnaya | Russia |
| Nataliya Polyakova | Russia |
| Hira Punjabi | India |
| Kun Qian | China |
| Nicolas Remy | Australia |
| Maryline Renault | Singapore |
| Marcia Riederer | Australia |
| Ilaria Mariagiulia Rizzuto | Italy |
| Alberto Román Gómez | Spain |
| Renata Romeo | Italy |
| Zhang Rongzhi | China |
| Rahul Sachdev | India |
| Dani Salgado | Spain |
| Miguel Sanchez | Spain |
| Srikanth Santhinathan | India |
| Padmanava Santra | India |
| Sergey Savvi | Russia |
| Tatyana Shanshina | Russia |
| Andrey Shapran | Russia |
| Mrigankk Shekhar | India |
| Kevin Shi | USA |
| Lorenzo Shoubridge | Italy |
| Andrey Shpatak | Russia |
| Artyom Shumov | Russia |
| Shailza Singhal | India |
| Daniel Sly | Australia |
|
Yury Smityuk |
Russia |
| Michael Snedic | Australia |
| Lam Soon Tak | Malaysia |
| Subi Sridharan | UK |
| Tom Haugaard Svensson | Sweden |
| Fattakh Takalov | Russia |
| Ilya Timin | Russia |
| Santo Tirnetta | Italy |
| Viktor Tyakht | Russia |
| Mikhail Ustyuzhanin | Russia |
| Roman Vasiliev | Russia |
| Andrey Vedernikov | Russia |
| Mikhail Vershinin | Russia |
| Bálint Vincze | Hungary |
| Francesco Visintin | Italy |
| Yuliya Vtyurina | Russia |
| Ilya Vytnov | Russia |
| Claire Waring | UK |
| Lai Wayne | China |
| Lin Xiaoping | China |
| Zhu Xingchao | China |
| Zhang Xu | China |
| Cai Xudong | China |
| Xu Zhengze | China |
| Zhu Zimo | China |
| Tatyana Zorina | Russia |
|
Aleksey Zozulya |
Russia |
| Igor Zubkov | Russia |
| Valeriya Zvereva | Russia |
The "passing scores" of the photo contest are (the highest and lowest scores for each work are not included in the final score):
Animal Behaviour - 18
Animals in the Environment - 18
Art and Nature's Image - 18
Humans and nature - 18
Landscape - 19
Magic of Plants - 18
Microcosm - 19
Mobile Photography - 19
Nature through the eyes of children - 17
Nature through the eyes of youth - 17
Reserved Russia - 16
The Portrait of the Animal - 17
The underwater world - 18