Children cheer for their teammates struggling on the mat while a relative of a contestant (far right) films it, in the end-of-practice contest, in the freestyle wrestling gym in Darvag, Republic of Dagestan, Russia. Parents or relatives of the children, usually men, sometimes would attend practices to watch and encourage their kid. Darvag is a monoethnic village located in the southern part of Republic of Dagestan. Having around 3000 inhabitants, all of Azerbaijani ethnicity, it, like many other villages in Dagestan, has a wrestling club. Darvag and its gym attracts not only locals, but children athletes from several other villages because of a strong coach and civil enthusiast Kavkaz Madayev ( pictured, far left). Their attendance varies from approximately once a month — in order to get acquainted with a range of competitors, to several times a week, as their standard training.