Athletic Club Of Dr. Kraevsky
Every story has its beginning. The official date of the beginning of Russian weightlifting is considered August 10, 1885. It was the day when the first weightlifting club of athletes was founded by Dr....
Every story has its beginning. The official date of the beginning of Russian weightlifting is considered August 10, 1885. It was the day when the first weightlifting club of athletes was founded by Dr....
November 28, 1971 – 21-year old Felix Naniev of the Northern Ossetia sets a new world record in the clean-and-jerk lift at the 1971 USSR Championship (youth) in Cherepovets, Russia. Felix Naniev cleaned-and-jerked 194kg...
The centenary of the Russian Revolution (1917-2017) went almost unnoticed in Russia. There were no official celebrations. No TV programs. No rallies on the Red Square. I think there were more celebrations and discussions...
RLOL is a little tag for Russian humor. Most of the times, it’s almost impossible to translate or to try to explain it. You’ve got to grow up in Russia to be able to...
Ilya Yablonsky is my best friend from my University days in Moscow. Recently, he transformed from a hardcore programmer to an aspiring photographer. When I was in Russia in 2012, Ilya set up his...
My uncle Eugene and his son Vladimir are waiting to start their shift in the coal mines of the Sakhalin island in Russia. The original black-and-white photo was taken in the late 1960s. Uncle...
Alexander Pervy (1960-1985) was one of my personal favorite athletes in Olympic weightlifting. Very slick technician and strong lifter, he definitely was a clutch lifter in the competitions. The more pressure was mounting in...
History in Color: 7x USSR Champion Mitrofan Kosarev (1911-2005) and 11x USSR Champion Nikolay Shatov (1909-1992). They were the great pioneers of the Soviet Olympic weightlifting in the 1930s and 1940s. The original b/w...
Anton Nossik, the prominent blogger, journalist, Internet entrepreneur, died in Russia from a heart attack at 51. It’s a very sad and hard to believe news from Moscow. Anton was more than any title or...