Sports, 1st prize
Strelka
Alexander Taran
23 July, 2011
A strelka tournament in the backyard of the abandoned Krasnoye Znamya factory in Saint Petersburg.
Alexander Taran
Alexander Taran was born in 1983. In 1999, he entered the photo studio Siluet at the Youth Creative Palace where had studied for four years under the direction of educator and ph...
Saint Petersburg, Russia
A strelka tournament in the backyard of the abandoned Krasnoye Znamya factory in Saint Petersburg. At the time of the breakup of the Soviet Union, strelka meant a meeting of gangsters—the sort that often ended in a scuffle. Today, strelka refers to an amateur street-fighting tournament and is becoming popular with people from all walks of life. Contestants fight on sand, without a time limit. Only a knockout or surrender stops the fight.
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