Hot-air balloons dot Russian sky in Luki

s skills of participants and the level of organization grows, the Festival receives wide popularity.

Update: 2016-06-15 08:31 GMT

Hot air balloons fly over a lake during a ballooning festival in Velikiye Luki, Russia.

This is the major event and spectacular show, each year hundreds of tourists from all over Russia are coming to it.

Attendees watch as hot-air balloons lift off from a lake in Russia.

A hot air balloon with the the image of Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara printed on it's side prepares to lift off.

Balloons of all colours and shape fill the sky during the 21st international balloonists rally.

s skills of participants and the level of organization grows, the Festival receives wide popularity.