Kyiv Strong: Yakov Kutsenko
History in Color: May 12, 1958, Chicago, IL – The USSR Weightlifting Head Coach Yakov Kutsenko of Kiev, Ukraine joins the media line-up of photographers covering the team match of the 1958 USA vs...
History in Color: May 12, 1958, Chicago, IL – The USSR Weightlifting Head Coach Yakov Kutsenko of Kiev, Ukraine joins the media line-up of photographers covering the team match of the 1958 USA vs...
History in Color: July 17, 1964, Kiev, Ukraine – 24-year old Vladimir Belyaev, middleweight of the Army Club in Kiev, sets a new world record in clean-and-jerk (176.5kg) in his 4th attempt in the...
History in Color: December 1978, Fergana, Uzbekistan, USSR – 25-year old heavyweight Valery Kuznichenko of Brovary (Kiev’s region), Ukraine is getting ready for his lift in the 110kg class at the 1978 USSR Cup...
History in Color: May 23, 1982, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine – 24-year old super heavyweight Anatoly Pisarenko of the Dynamo Club, Kiev is getting ready for his snatch lifting in the 110+kg weight class at the...
History in Color: October 3, 1947, Helsinki, Finland – Soviet heavyweight Nikolay Laputin performs a snatch lift in the 82.5+kg weight class at the 1947 European Championships in Helsinki. It was the first European...
History in Color: Alexander Donskoy (1913-1956) was one of the best Soviet bantam and flyweights in the 1930s and 1940s. He competed for the Temp and Spartak clubs of Kiev. During his career as...
History in Color: July 1952 – Member of Team USSR Weightlifting, middle heavyweight Grigory Novak participates in the joint photo session organized by the Soviet media at one of the last training camps before...
March 12, 2022 – Legendary Soviet Olympic weightlifter David Rigert celebrates his 75th Birthday today. Olympic champion, 6x World and 9x European champion, 5x USSR champion and author of 65 world records, David Rigert...
The news on TV said that the invaders captured the city of Kherson in the south of Ukraine. It’s less than 90 miles from the place that my family comes from. Total lunacy! I...
History in Color: October 21, 1938, Vienna, Austria – U.S. lightweight Tony Terlazzo of York, PA is competing in the snatch program in the 67.5kg class at the 1938 World Championships held in Vienna....