Soviet Weightlifters of the 1st Decade After the WWII
History in Color: Line-up of famous Soviet weightlifters of the first decades after the end of WWII (right to left): Nikolay Shatov, Yevgeny Lopatin, Roman Roman, Grigory Novak, X, Roman Moroz.
Tagged: Yesterday’s Hero
Golden Age of American Weightlifting: Secrets in a Nutshell
The History in Color cover photo brings back a “look in color” on the Golden Age of American Olympic Weightlifting. This is a photo of legendary Norbert “Norb” Schemansky taken during the 1952 Summer...
Alexander Pervy (1979)
History in Color: One of the brightest young athletes of the Soviet and international Olympic weightlifting, middleweight Alexander Pervy (1960-1985) of the Army club in Donetsk, Ukraine competes at the 1979 USSR Cup in...
First Soviet World Champion Ever
October 19, 1946, Paris, France – Grigory Novak of Team CCCP Weightlifting wins the world title in the 82.5kg weight class at the 1946 World Championship in France and becomes the 1st ever Soviet...
USA vs. USSR: Firm Handshake in 1956
History in Color: Champions of the 1956 Summer Olympics Paul Anderson (USA, left) and Arkady Vorobyev (USSR) exchange a firm handshake behind the scenes of the Olympics in Melbourne. Head coach of Team USSR...
To Yury Vlasov: Mirror of Time
Just a visual tribute to legendary athlete Yury P. Vlasov. He is 82 now. Decades passed since he won the Olympic gold in Rome in 1960. Olympic weightlifting went through numerous ups and downs...
Peter George and John Davis: Two Legends of Weightlifting USA
People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves. Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright One of the greatest playwrights in...
Andrey V. Menshikov (1945-2017)
It’s very sad to hear that there is no more Andrey Menshikov. He was a great alumnus of my university. He was a great stand-up comedian. He was a great TV producer and director....
Vasily Alexeev and CCCP Strongest in Podolsk (1976)
This photo brought a lot of memories. Many years ago, when I was a young aspiring weightlifter, I cut it from the book about Vasily Alexeev and added it to my weightlifting diaries with...
David Rigert is 70
Last Sunday, David Rigert turned 70! For whatever reason, I sent my congratulations on so many outlets that… I forgot to mention about it on Chidlovski Blog Chidlovski. We all have our favorite athletes....
