Khuresh

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Khuresh competition in Tos-Bulak at the Naadym festival of 2005.
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Khuresh competition in Tos-Bulak at the Naadym festival of 2005.

Khuresh is a traditional form of wrestling in the ethnically Mongolian region of Tuva, in southern Siberia. The word originates from the same root as Turkish "Güreş" (wrestling).

See also: Mongolian wrestling