Valery Odintsov, 1951-2015
Sad news came from Riga, Latvia. Valery Odintsov, famous hockey defenseman of Dynamo Riga, died at 64. Sad news… Valery Odintsov was one of the main players of Dynamo Riga of 1970s. When you...
Sad news came from Riga, Latvia. Valery Odintsov, famous hockey defenseman of Dynamo Riga, died at 64. Sad news… Valery Odintsov was one of the main players of Dynamo Riga of 1970s. When you...
On the first night after I arrived to Moscow, Jane took me to the museum. Jana is an arts and architecture historian. She organizes all these artsy exhibits and absolutely devastated that I am...
Absolutely shameless selfie of me in blur on the body of Canada Cup. Taken in Moscow in December 2012. Not all Canada Cup are in Toronto. This one is in Moscow. Team USSR won...
Big Lifts By Big Guys: Visual Retrospective of World Records Big lift by Alexey Lovchev at the 2015 World Championship was truly sensational and inspirational. 26-year-old athlete from Russia clean-and -jerked 264KG and set...
“Ave, Imperator, morituri te salutant” Pardon my Latin. “Hail, Emperor, those who are about to die salute you” This is what gladiators were saying before entering the Coliseum Arena in the Ancient Rome. We...
Title: Hockey CCCP International Client: Pro Bono Launch Date: January 2004 Technologies: XHTML/CSS; SQL/ASP; MS Access URL: chidlovski.com/personal/1954/index.htm One of my independent projects on sports history, the Hockey CCCP International was an ambitious database-driven...
WASHINGTON – Mikhail Lesin, a former aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin who helped found the English-language news service Russia Today, has been found dead in an upscale Washington hotel room. Lesin served as...
This is a very meaningful photo for me. The moment of the game between Team USA and Team USSR at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. The game that became one of the...
Jacques Plante came into our room with an interpreter and amazed us by sitting with me and explaining in detail how I should play against the likes of Mahovlich, Esposito, Cournoyer and Henderson. I...
How many of the players from the Soviet team in 1972 also played for them in the 1980 Olympics? Question by David to “The Summit in 1972“ There were seven Soviet players that...