The finalists of the GOLDEN TURTLE 2025 Photo contest have been announced
The finalists of the Golden Turtle Photo contest are as follows:
"Passing scores" of the Photo contest are (the highest and lowest scores for each work are not included in the final score):
Animal Behaviour - 12
Animals in the Environment - 13
Art and Nature's Image - 15
Humans and nature - 15
Landscape - 17
Magic of Plants - 14
Microcosm - 15
Mobile Photography - 13
Nature through the eyes of children - 15
Nature through the eyes of youth - 16
Reserved Russia - 12
The Portrait of the Animal - 14
The underwater world - 14
| Timea Ambrus | Hungary |
| Dmitry Arkhipov | Russia |
| Natalia Bachkova | Russia |
| Vladislav Bagno | Russia |
| Andrey Balta | Russia |
| Pandula Bandara | Sri Lanka |
| Rajarshi Banerji | India |
| Vasily Baranyuk | Russia |
| Indranil Basu Mallick | India |
| Maria Belyalova | Russia |
| Lars Beygang | Germany |
| Soumya Ranjan Bhattacharyya | India |
| Davide Biagi | Italy |
| Evgeniy Borisov | Russia |
| Ivan Borovkov | Russia |
| Haiyong Cai | China |
| Mark Carwardine | United Kingdom |
| Manuel Castellanos Raboso | Spain |
| Stefano Cerbai | Italy |
| Claudio Ceresi | Italy |
| Soumen Chanda | India |
| Ming Chen | China |
| Wan Yong Chong | Malaysia |
| Federica Cordero | Italy |
| Juan Cuetos | Spain |
| Sudip Das | India |
| Anna Degtyareva | Russia |
| Ivan Dobromyslov | Russia |
| Dmitry Don | Russia |
| Ilya Drovnin | Russia |
| Anastasia Dyakonova | Russia |
| Amit Eshel | Israel |
| Mohammad Esteki | Iran |
| Alexander Fedosov | Russia |
| Vladimir Fefelov | Russia |
| Julian Fernandez | Spain |
| Laszlo Földi | Hungary |
| Juan Garcia Lucas | Spain |
| Marina Gavrikova | Russia |
| Nikolay Gernet | Russia |
| Ivan Gorshkov | Russia |
| Ramachandiran Govindaraj | India |
| Ilya Grokhotov | Russia |
| Ouyang Guanlai | China |
| Arjun Haarith | India |
| Benoit Henrion | France |
| Ateeb Hussain | United Arab Emirates |
| Dmitry Ishniyazov | Russia |
| Yury Ivanov | Russia |
| Radomir Jakubowski | Germany |
| Shengfu Jiao | China |
| Eniko Kalovics | Hungary |
| Abhilash Kar | India |
| Pavel Karasev | Russia |
| Lakshitha Karunarathna | Sri Lanka |
| Norbert Kaszas | Hungary |
| Alexey Kharitonov | Israel |
| Szilveszter Kis | Romania |
| Dmitry Kokh | Russia |
| Alexey Korolev | Russia |
| Mikhail Korostelev | Russia |
| Vladimir Korovyakovsky | Russia |
| Vladislav Kostylev | Russia |
| Olga Kritsak | Russia |
| Nadezhda Kulagina | Kazakhstan |
| Qian Kun | China |
| Andrey Kuznetsov | Russia |
| Wayne Lai | China |
| Alexander Lavrentiev | Russia |
| Alexander Leshenok | Russia |
| Tibor Litauszki | Hungary |
| Qingshun Liu | China |
| Shaozhen Luo | China |
| Alexey Magai | Russia |
| Konstantin Malanin | Russia |
| Daniil Malikov | Russia |
| Ashane Marasinghe | Finland |
| Rostislav Mashin | Russia |
| David Mediavilla | Spain |
| Serge Melesan | France |
| Maxim Misyura | Russia |
| Abdul Momin | Bangladesh |
| Kevin Morgans | United Kingdom |
| Marina Murashova | Russia |
| Egor Nikiforov | Russia |
| Andrey Nosik | Russia |
| Daria Ostapenko | Russia |
| Linan Ouyang | China |
| Maksymilian Paczkowski | Poland |
| Elena Pakhalyuk | Russia |
| Gregoire Pansu | France |
| Andrey Parshin | Russia |
| Venkatesh Penjuri | India |
| Alexey Perelygin | Russia |
| Alexander Plakida | Russia |
| Yuri Podgrushny | Russia |
| Angela Poggioni | USA |
| Natalia Polyakova | Russia |
| Enrico Pompei | Italy |
| Pratik Pradhan | India |
| Denis Pronin | Russia |
| Olivier Puccia | Japan |
| Hira Punjabi | India |
| Sitaram Raul | India |
| Phil Ricordel | France |
| Alberto Roman Gomez | Spain |
| Ekaterina Romanova | Russia |
| Renata Romeo | Italy |
| Luc Rooman | Belgium |
| Sergey Sadov | Russia |
| Aziz Saltik | Türkiye |
| Erfan Samanfar | Iran |
| Padmanava Santra | India |
| Dileep Sasidharan | United Arab Emirates |
| Sergey Savvi | Russia |
| Dave Shaffer | USA |
| Neha Shah | Kenya |
| Sergey Shanin | Russia |
| Andrey Shpatak | Russia |
| Martin Siering | Germany |
| Swaroop Singha Roy | India |
| Daniel Sly | Australia |
| Yuri Smityuk | Russia |
| Nikolay Stepanenko | Russia |
| Ben Sutcliffe | United Kingdom |
| Maxim Tarasov | Russia |
| Sergey Telnyuk | Russia |
| Andrieux Thibault | France |
| Denis Timchenko | Russia |
| Ilya Timin | Russia |
| Ilya Trukhanov | Russia |
| Grigory Tsidulko | Russia |
| Franco Tulli | Italy |
| Victor Tyakht | Russia |
| Kirill Uyutnov | Russia |
| Vera Vakulova | Russia |
| Pasquale Vassallo | Italy |
| Yuehui Xiong | China |
| Yong Xu | China |
| Vasily Yakovlev | Russia |
| Minghui Yuan | China |
| Igor Yurkin | Russia |
| Xingchao Zhu | China |
| Zimo Zhu | China |
| Igor Zubkov | Russia |
| Damir Zurub | Croatia |
"Passing scores" of the Photo contest are (the highest and lowest scores for each work are not included in the final score):
Animal Behaviour - 12
Animals in the Environment - 13
Art and Nature's Image - 15
Humans and nature - 15
Landscape - 17
Magic of Plants - 14
Microcosm - 15
Mobile Photography - 13
Nature through the eyes of children - 15
Nature through the eyes of youth - 16
Reserved Russia - 12
The Portrait of the Animal - 14
The underwater world - 14