Special Time of the Year
It’s coming again! Holidays season is on its way and we are all catching up with its spirit. Here is a very old picture of celebration of holiday season in my kindergarten in Moscow...
Tagged: Moscow
Candid Camera Russian Style
Just a blast from the past… It’s one of the episodes from the Funny Guys TV. Moscow. Winter 1990. A man wearing a black stocking mask on his face is looking lost on the...
Happy Birthday, Inspector Knyshev!
Andrey Knyshev turns 60! Wow. I am speechless. Time flies. No more speeding, Inspector Knyshev! 🙂 Andrey Knyshev turns 60! Andrey Knyshev was the author of the cult Funny Guys TV show run on...
Bobby Orr International
Bobby Orr is one of the best hockey players ever to step on the ice rink. OK. There are top three players that are on the top of any all-time top lists out there....
1979
Blast from the past, as they say… I am a junior in my school in Moscow. Lifting in the featherweight class (60 kg /132 lbs) at the time. Seems like yesterday and 300 years...
Marchuk
Vladimir Marchuk is mostly known as the first Olympic weightlifter who cleaned-and-jerked 260KG in 1982. Leonid Taranenko certainly clean-and-jerked 266KG at the Samboy Chips Cup in 1988 and even claimed that he was...
Teamsters In the 1970s
All three characters on the photo were team members of the Soviet national team in the late 1970s. Left to right – Alexander Voronin, Victor Okorokov and Nikolay Kolesnikov. Right before the 1980 Summer...
Weightlifting Controversies of the Past
It’s an interesting photo with Sultan Rakhmanov and Alexander Prilepin from the past of the Soviet weightlifting. Sultan Rakhmanov needs no special introduction. Olympic champion in Moscow 1980, he was a superheavyweight lead in...
Records Dedicated To the Leader
I did not feel any pressure, I just focused on each lift. The first thing I thought when I knew I had won was that I had made our Beloved Leader (Kim Jong Un)...
Weightlifting Tournament of Eight Banned Athletes
The weightlifting tournament for 8 Russian Olympic weightlifters banned from competing in Rio took place on Sunday, August 7, 2016 in Moscow, Russia. There were no separate weight classes competitions. All contentenders lifted...
