Daily Archive: March 5, 2018

Yury Zaytsev

History in Color: Olympic champion Yury Zaytsev is performing clean-and-jerk at the 1979 USSR Spartakiade in Leningrad, Russia. Yury Zaytsev was one of the strongest Soviet heavyweights (110kg) in the 1970s. He competed for...

Zhabotinsky

History in Color: August 3, 1967, Moscow, Russia – Soviet super heavyweight Leonid Zhabotinsky of Zaporozhye, Ukraine competes at the 1967 USSR Spartakiade in Moscow. At the time, Leonid Zhabotinsky was the strongest man...