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Guardian/RPS Joan Wakelin award: School for female Cossacks

Cossack RPS Competition: Alyona Glushenko, of the Plastunsky Regiment of Crimean Cossacks
Alyona Glushenko, an 18-year-old member of the Plastunsky regiment of Crimean Cossacks, bathes her horse in the Black Sea at Nikolayevka village, where a group of Cossacks camp and sell pony rides to tourists during the summer months
Photograph: Anastasia Taylor-Lind
Cossack RPS Competition: Young cossacks at the women-only Ataman Platov school in southern Russia.
Year 9 Cossack cadets, who are between 15 and 16 years old, during lunch in the canteen of Ataman Platov Cossack Cadet school in Belaya Kalitva, southern Russia
Photograph: Anastasia Taylor-Lind
Cossack RPS Competition: Young cossacks at the women-only Ataman Platov school in southern Russia.
18-year-old Jiula Zabrodina preparing a classmate's hair before their graduation ceremony at the Atman Platov school
Photograph: Anastasia Taylor-Lind
Cossack RPS Competition: Young cossacks at the women-only Ataman Platov school in southern Russia.
Tanya Karaton, a cavalry member of the 'All-Powerful and Great Warriors of the Don Cossack Army', based at Rostov-on-Don racetrack in southern Russia
Photograph: Anastasia Taylor-Lind
Cossack RPS Competition: Young cossacks at the women-only Ataman Platov school in southern Russia.
A year 9 Cossack cadet watches as her classmates bury a time capsule in the grounds of the Ataman Platov school
Photograph: Anastasia Taylor-Lind
Cossack RPS Competition: Young cossacks at the women-only Ataman Platov school in southern Russia.
A year 11 Cossack cadet in the canteen at the Ataman Platov school
Photograph: Anastasia Taylor-Lind
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