World Cup 2018: The hidden world of Russian goalposts

As the World Cup draws closer, Reuters photographers have been documenting the colourful, creative and modest world of goalposts found in communities around Russia .

The town of Dolgoprudny in the Moscow region

An Orthodox church in the Siberian village of Tyulkovo in Krasnoyarsk region

Hay fills a goal during the traditional Cossack games outside the village of Arkhonskaya in the Republic of North Ossetia, Alania

Having a swinging time in St Petersburg

The village of Bolshaya Dzhalga in Stavropol region

The Siberian settlement of Novosyolovo, Krasnoyarsk region

Ostrov Otdykha (the Island of Rest), located in the middle of the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk

Cossacks sit on a bench next to some goalposts covered with a screen during the traditional Cossack games outside the village of Arkhonskaya in the Republic of North Ossetia, Alania

Verkhnyaya Biryusa village, in the Taiga area near the Russian Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk

A tourist centre on the bank of the Belyo Lake in the Republic of Khakassia, Siberia

A cadet holds a model of a sword as he trains at the stadium of the General Yermolov Cadet School in Stavropol

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