Happy Day in Moscow Many Years Ago
It was a beautiful and warm day in Moscow. The photo was taken in the late 1960s and the original was in black and white. I don’t think this place changed much. Maybe, more...
It was a beautiful and warm day in Moscow. The photo was taken in the late 1960s and the original was in black and white. I don’t think this place changed much. Maybe, more...
History in Color: April 13, 1972, Tallinn, Estonia, USSR – 26-year old light heavyweight Igor Kalashnikov of the Moscow Dynamo club is on his way to win the 1st place and set a new...
History in Color: December 14, 1974, Zaporozhye, Ukraine, USSR – Legendary Soviet middle heavyweight David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia competes in the 90kg weight class at the 1974 USSR Cup and wins gold medals...
History in Color: Paris, France, February 1971 – Soviet heavyweights Vasily Alexeev and Jaan Talts are being caught on camera while having a friendly armwrestling match in front of the Eiffel Tower during a...
History in Color: March 20, 1974, Yerevan, Armenia, USSR – Soviet super heavyweight giant Vasily Alexeev of Shakhty, Russia sets up a new world record in clean-and-jerk (240.5kg) in the 110+kg weight class at...
History in Color series features a color version of a portrait of Jan Sparre Sr., one of the key athletes and coaches in the early decades of Olympic weightlifting development in the Soviet Union....
History in Color: July 25, 1982, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine –28-year old super heavyweight Sergey Ayrapetov of Team Spartak (Baku, Azerbaijan) competes in the 110+kg weight class at the 1982 USSR Championships at the Old Circus...
History in Color: March 8, 1958, Moscow, Russia, USSR – Soviet middle heavyweight, Olympic champion Arkady Vorobyev of Sverdlovsk, Russia wins the 1st place with a 457.5kg total in the 90kg weight class at...
Sad news came from Russia. On April 7, 2021, two days after celebrating his 80th birthday, legendary middleweight, Olympic champion Viktor Kurentsov passed away in Odintsovo, Moscow district, Russia. Viktor Kurentsov was a true...
April 5, 2021- Happy 80th Birthday to Viktor Kurentsov, one of all-time best Olympic weightlifters in the history of sports! Viktor Kuznetsov was a true legend in the middleweight class (75kg). He was a...