Sports, 1st prize
Strelka
Alexander Taran
20 August, 2011
After a 20-minute fight, Michael Turkanov, 23, lies unconscious after being choked by accountant Alexander Reze, 42.
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...
After a 20-minute fight, Michael Turkanov, 23, lies unconscious after being choked by accountant Alexander Reze, 42. In the amateur street fighting tournament known as Strelka in Russia, fighters compete on sand with no time limit, breaks or rounds, and the fight only stops with a knockout or a fighter’s surrender. The matches are held in the back lot of the abandoned Soviet factory Krasnoye Znamya.
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