Alexander Bodunov (1951-2017)
One of the finest Team CCCP Hockey wingers, Alexander Bodunov died on May 11, 2017. He was 65. Alexander Bodunov won the World Championship with the Soviet team in 1973 and 1974. He was...
One of the finest Team CCCP Hockey wingers, Alexander Bodunov died on May 11, 2017. He was 65. Alexander Bodunov won the World Championship with the Soviet team in 1973 and 1974. He was...
History in Color: Olympic champions Isaac Berger (60kg, USA) and Ivan Udodov (56kg, USSR) are having a good time in Melbourne, Australia before the beginning of the 1956 Summer Olympics.
16-year old Olympic weightlifter Naim Suleymanov of Bulgaria is training for the 1984 European Championship in Vittorio, Spain. Left to right: Neno Terziysky (52kg), Nedelcho Kolev and Norair Nurikyan are observing the training session of...
History in Color Series: Gennady Chetin of Perm, Russia is completing the 110kg snatch lift in the 56kg class at the 1971 USSR Spatakiad Games in Moscow Gennady Chetin (1943-2002) competed in the bantamweight class....
History in Color Series: July 30, 1980, Moscow, Russia – Sultan Rakhmanov of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine and Team USSR completes his first attempt in the snatch of the 185kg at the 1980 Summer Olympics in...
History in Color series: Olympic champion and author of 41 world records, Yurik Vardanyan of Leninakan (Gyumry), Armenia is beginning the snatch lift.
History in Color Series: Eugene Lopatin (1917-2011) is coaching his son Sergey Lopatin (1939-2004). It was a family athlete and coach team. Eugene Lopatin, the father, was a vice champion of the 1952 Olympics,...
History in Color: Group shot of the members of Team CCCP before the departure to the 1982 European Championship in Ljubljana. Left to right*: Viktor Naumenkov (coach), Yury Zaxarevich (100kg, silver), Sergey Arakelov (110kg,...
History in Color: Legendary Soviet super heavyweight, Yakov Kutsenko carries the national flag at the opening ceremony of the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. It was the first Olympics that the USSR ever...
History in Color Series: One of the pioneers of Olympic weightlifting in the USSR, George Popov is working with his student Michael Kemel in the so-called “House of Popov” in Kiev, Ukraine. Popov competed...