Team USSR Weightlifting in Fergana (1986)
History in Color:
Team USSR Weightlifting (Head coach D.Rigert, 1986) in the training camp in Fergana, Uzbekistan (left to right):
Front row:
Vladimir Maslyaev (coach), Alexey Kolokoltsev (52kg, Kemerovo, Russia), Yurik Sarkisyan (60kg, Echmiadzin, Armenia), Mukhady Sedaev (60kg, Grozny, Russia), Vitaly Stabrov (massage therapist), Vladimir Ryzhenkov (coach);
Mid row:
Viktor Sokolovsky (56kg, Moscow, Russia), Bronislav Ryzhik (52kg, Zaporozhye, Ukraine), Oxen Mirzoyan (56kg, Yerevan, Armenia), Valentin Mikhailov (coach) , Viktor Bilyak (52kg, Kiev, Ukraine), x2, Vladimir Kuznetsov (75kg, Krasnodar, Russia), Ibragim Kodzoev (coach);
Top row:
Ruslan Balaev (100kg, Grozny, Russia), Ashot Vilasyan (coach), Pavel Kuznetsov (100kg, Vladimir, Russia) Sergey Nagirny (110kg, Dneprodzerzhinsk, Ukraine), Vladimir Grachev (67.5kg, Kalinin, Russia), Alexander Popov (90kg, Krasnoyarsk, Russia), x3 (coach) , x4 (coach) , Boris Seregin (100kg, Tula, Russia), Leonid Taranenko (110+kg, Minsk, Belarus), Viktor Solodov (90kg, Myski, Russia);