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Buvaysar Eskaev, 16, does a backflip against the wall of his gym in Khasav-Yurt, Russia.
The dusty Russian town of Khasav-Yurt, which the locals like to call the Wrestlers’ Mecca, boasts the greatest concentration of wrestling champions in the world. Photographer Yuri Kozyrev documented the young athletes at their school in the North Caucasus.