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A swim meet in the southern city of Magnitogorsk featured adolescents diving into the pool wearing camouflage uniforms, while other competitors slung model Kalashnikov rifles across their backs.

In Magnitogorsk, a city near the Ural Mountains, Sergei Loza’s bakery collects wild hops to make soldiers whole-meal sourdough rusks based on his grandmother’s recipe.

Keenan coached the New York Rangers to the Stanley Cup in 1994 and also won the KHL at Metallurg Magnitogorsk in 2014.

MMK Metalurji is the Turkish subsidiary of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works, a major Russian steel conglomerate controlled by Viktor Rashnikov, a Russian billionaire who is close to Putin.

At 24, Minnesota chose right wing Danila Yurov from Magnitogorsk, a Russian junior team.