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...
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Kyiv Strong: Vladimir Belyaev
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...
Kyiv Strong: Anatoly Pisarenko
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...
Kyiv Strong: Nikolay Laputin
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...
Kyiv Strong: Alexander Donskoy
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...
Kyiv Strong: Grigory Novak
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...
Czech Super Heavyweight Champion Petr Pavlasek is 75
January 31, 2022 – One of the strongest super heavyweights of the 1970s, Petr Pavlasek of Czech Republic celebrated his 75th Birthday. Petr Pavlasek was a 2x Olympian for Czechoslovakia and competed for his...
Birds in Winter: Ducks, Egrets and More
Just a few photos of our local birds in Ponte Vedra Beach taken during an afternoon walk in January 2022: On the cover, Snowy Egret greets a Mottled Duck in a local pond. Northern...
Birds in Winter: Snowy Egret
There is no snow in Florida in January. There are plenty of snowy egrets though. As seen in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL in January 2022.
