passing through the city of chedan, the second largest after kyzyl, we by chance we ended up at the khureshng championship, which took place in a city wasteland, but everything was absolutely adult-like, the boys fought. at her at the time of the fight, definitely a support group arrives: friends, relatives, in general in tuva it is customary to give boys a male upbringing from a young age, they master horse riding, learn archery, and of course, i learn the basics of the national wrestling khuresh. it is believed that wrestling develops physical strength, endurance, and the ability to resist an opponent generally develops character. near the center of kizyla there is a sacred place, the source of the yenisei river, which the tuvans call ulukhen. here the waters of the big and small yenisei merge, forming one of the largest rivers on the globe. more recently, a sixteen-meter statue of the golden buda appeared on this site. he is essentially just a baby when compared with kizhi kzhee, a stone sculpture whose age scientists date to the 8th-9th centuries. ad, that is, it is already more than 1,