Inside a Cossack Youth-Training Camp

Teenagers undergo training at a military boot camp, run by local Cossack organizations and set up in the mountains of Crimea near the town of Bakhchisarai, Ukraine, August 4, 2011.
Gleb Garanich / Reuters

Ukraine, Aug. 4, 2011
Children and teenagers undergo training at a military boot camp, run by local Cossack organizations and set up in the mountains of the Crimea near the town of Bakhchisarai, Ukraine. The camps last for about a month and include mountaineering, martial arts and survival techniques.

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