Vladimir Marchuk
History in Color: Mighty Soviet super heavyweight Vladimir Marchuk of Moscow, Russia is resting between pull sets during training in the early 1980s.
History in Color: Mighty Soviet super heavyweight Vladimir Marchuk of Moscow, Russia is resting between pull sets during training in the early 1980s.
History in Color: Eugene Katsura of the Army Club, Moscow competes in the 60kg weight class at the 1964 USSR Championship in Kiev, Ukraine. Eugene Katsura (1937-1967) was a strong Soviet feather and lightweight...
History in Color: 20-year old middleweight Yordan Bikov of Pazardzhik, Bulgaria is on his way to win the Olympic gold medal in the 75kg class at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. Yordan...
History in Color: 21-year old Viktor Tregubov of Shakhty, Russia is competing in the clean-and-jerk program of the 90kg weight class at the 1986 USSR Spartakiade in Moscow, Russia. Six years afterwards, Tregubov became...
It ain’t me. It is what this guy on the photo said to me. From the Birds Photography series at Chidlovski Blog Chidlovski.
“I’ll be pure gold in the spring!” promised this little fella while visiting us in Winthrop. He kept his word last year. Lets see how he does this year. From the Birds Photography series...
Celebrating the old Day of the Army and Navy in the USSR… Congrats to all who still does the celebrations. It was a notable holiday on the calendars back in the old Soviet Union....
History in Color: July 25, 1976, Montreal, Canada – David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia snatches 170kg in the 3rd attempt and sets an Olympic record in the 90kg weight class at the 1976 Summer...
History in Color: One of the top Soviet super heavyweights of the 1970s, Aslanbek Yenaldiev (right) and his coach Viktor Dorokhin are enjoying a photo session moment in the weightlifting gym in Shakhty, Russia....
History in Color: World records holder, vice champion of the USSR, Alexander Kolodkov (1947-2014) of Alma Ata, Kazakhstan was a superb presser of his time. Kolodkov authored an “eternal” world record when he pressed...