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Vetluga's Hockey
Vladimir Pesnya
18 February, 2015
Michael Chukino, HC Vetluga’s goalkeeper, leaves home for a match.
HC Vetluga is an amateur ice hockey team in the small town of Vetluga, some 230km north of Novgorod, in Russia. The team participates in regional championships. The players’ stadium is simply a fenced-off area of ice in the open air. HC Vetluga comprises people of all ages, from schoolchildren to pensioners.
Vladimir Pesnya
Born in 1970 in Moscow into a doctor’s family, Vladimir Pesnya worked as a correspondent for the weekly Book Review, and as editor-in-chief of factory newspaper Stankostroitel. H...
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