Chirayliq: Cute Hockey Players

Saturday 8 March 2008

Cute Hockey Players

Ak Bars Kazan is a Russian Super League team from the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan. The white snow leopard, Aq Bars in Tatar, is the emblem of the team and the republic.
Here are some cute Tatar and Russian players from the team and the junior league.

Aslan Raisov and Andrei Zubarev

Danis Zaripov and a model of the Qul Sharif mosque in Kazan, displayed inside Qul Sharif (more from the same photoshoot at sportguide.ru)

Finally, Pavel Popkov... and, just for fun, Jukka Hentunen from Finland!

4 comments:

Tinet said...: Pavel Popkov = !!!!!!

I know his surname comes from "pop", "priest", but, well, HEH!, it could theoretically also be from "popka", "butt"!!! >_<; 9 March 2008 at 11:59
Ainur Elmgren said...: Just look at his earlobes!!!
He reminds me of Juho ^^; 9 March 2008 at 17:45
Anonymous said...: Juho!

Ja sit, mitä toi Hentunen (tarttee olla savolainen) tekee tataarien joukossa?

hentunen pois, hentunen pois...!!; 9 March 2008 at 18:02
Ainur Elmgren said...: Hentunen on aloittanut peliuransa WarKis Varkaudessa... joten oikeaan osuit kai...; 9 March 2008 at 23:20

Post a Comment

Chirayliq

Chirayliq is the Uighur word for 'handsome, pretty, beautiful, attractive'. This blog concerns itself with the handsomeness of Central Asian men, and not only. From the Black Sea to Kamchatka, from the Kara Sea to Himalaya, this is a gallery celebrating the rugged charm of the men from the steppes, mountains, deserts and taigas.

Questions? Suggestions? Want to submit your own photos? Feel free to contact blogmaster Tinet.

Chirayliq is now also a tumblr blog, not least because Tinet is too lazy to write substantial posts nowadays! Thus, the tumblr is mostly just eyecandy ... :3

About us

Tinet - after many years of studying among other things the Russian language and the cultural history of Russia, the Soviet Union and the Middle East, she has moved to one of the many cities of her dreams (Berlin, Germany) and works as a gun for hire for various publishing companies with typesetting, graphic design, translating and writing, besides drawing comics about funny Russians. She dreams of making big fat richly illustrated coffee table books about the images of Central Asian, Caucasian or Russian men from a cultural historic angle.

Ainur - Ph.D. of History at the University of Lund, Sweden, who in her research has focused on nationalism, identity and stereotypes, mainly in the context of Finnish views on Swedes. She also draws historically correct comics about the Jazz age in the 1920's, which also deal with nationalism, identity and stereotypes, in a quite entertaining way.

Tinet and Ainur are sisters, and their ethnic background is as follows: 62.5% Finnish, 25% Mishär Tatar, 12.5% Kale (Finnish Roma).

Saturday 8 March 2008

Cute Hockey Players

4 comments:

Chirayliq

Labels

Blog Archive

Terms of use

About us

Related sites by us