Monthly Archive: December 2017
History in Color: Famous Finnish lightweight Jouni Grönman performs a snatch lift. Olympic weightlifting of Finland produced three medalists of the Summer Olympics. Jouni Grönman is one of these distinguished athletes. He won bronze...
History in Color: Leningrad, USSR, July 1979 – 30-year old Viktor Veretennikov wins the 1979 USSR Spartakiade in the 56kg weight class. Viktor Veretennikov (b. 1949) was a world class bantamweight from Volgograd, USSR....
History in Color: Moscow, July 31, 1983 – 22-year old Sergey Didyk of Vinnitsa, Ukraine is walking to the competition platform to break the new clean-and-jerk world record (261kg) in the 4th attempt in...
On the History in Color cover photo: Legendary Soviet middleweight, Olympic champion Alexander Kurynov (1934-1973) and Team CCCP head coach, 2x Olympic champion Arkady Vorobyev (1924-2012) are preparing for the competitions in the training...
These guys are always getting out on the porch around this time. They are the usual suspects of our household holiday season.
Bernie C. is all dressed up to begin celebration of the holiday season on Saturday morning. Right now! Right here! Right on the porch!
The first sensible snow storm just about to come to town. In 30-40 minutes season decorations on the porch will be covered in snow flakes. Hope everybody have a nice holiday season preparations this...
History in Color: Two promising athletes that competed for Team Moscow in the 1970s. Yury Kozin (b. 1948, on the right) won the World Championship, the USSR championship and the USSR Spartakiade in 1971....
On the History in Color photo, legendary Yurik Vardanyan of Armenia is getting ready for his first clean-and-jerk attempt at the 1983 World Championship in the Izmailovo Arena, Moscow, USSR. 1983 European Championship Location: Moscow,...
Here we go with our double selfie in the car. A wild man and a wild dog – that’s us! We made this selfie and texted it to her. She’ll like it. We know...