Andrey V. Menshikov (1945-2017)
It’s very sad to hear that there is no more Andrey Menshikov. He was a great alumnus of my university. He was a great stand-up comedian. He was a great TV producer and director....
It’s very sad to hear that there is no more Andrey Menshikov. He was a great alumnus of my university. He was a great stand-up comedian. He was a great TV producer and director....
As some of the readers of Lift Up project might have noticed, for over a year, we’ve been running the History in Color Series at Chidlovski Blog Chidlovski. During this time we digitally enhanced...
On the History in Color photo, Oxen Mirzoyan of Yerevan, Armenia performs his snatch lifting at the 1989 Frienship Cup in Tallinn, Estonia. Oxen Mirzoyan (b.1961) was an outstanding bantamweight lifter in the 1980s....
Legendary super heavyweight Vasily Alexeev was a late bloomer in the elite Olympic weightlifting. He won his first medal at the USSR national championship in 1968 in Lugansk, Ukraine. He was 26 at the...
The original black-and-white photo for the History in Color cover came from the archives of the famous Soviet athlete and coach Arkady Vorobyev. The photo shows the Team CCCP Weightlifting on the early morning...
History in Color: Olof Arvid Andersson (1919-2011) happens to be the most successful Swedish Olympic weightlifter of the 20th century. Andersson was a two-time Olympian and represented Sweden at the Summer Olympics in London...
RLOL is a little tag for Russian humor. Most of the times, it’s almost impossible to translate or to try to explain it. You’ve got to grow up in Russia to be able to...
History in Color: Ota Zaremba (b. 1957) is one of the most successful Czech weightlifters of all times. The were three Olympic weightlifting champions in the history of Czechoslovakia. Heavyweight Jaroslav Skobla won the...
March 4, 1972, Ulm (Germany) – 28-year old flyweight Adam Gnatov of Lvov, Ukraine sets a new world record in the press lift. Adam Gnatov (b. 1944) was a powerful Soviet Olympic weightlifter in...