Tagged: USSR

History in Color: July 21, 1971, Moscow, Russia – 24-year old light heavyweight Boris Pavlov of the Spartak Donetsk club is competing in the 82.5kg class at the 1971 USSR Championships and Spartakiade at...

History in Color: One of the most impressive Olympic pressers in the history of weightlifting, Grigory Novak performs an Olympic press at one of many exhibition events in the USSR in the 1940s. Grigory...

History in Color: July 27, 1976, Montreal, Canada – 25-year old Soviet heavyweight Yury Zaytsev performs a clean-and-jerk lift in the 110kg weight class at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. By the end...

History in Color: May 15, 1951, Kaunas, Lithuania, USSR – On his way to his 2nd national title, legendary Arkady Vorobyev, light heavyweight of the Army Club of Sverdlovsk and one of the top...

History in Color: Moscow, Russia, USSR, 1964– Vladimir Golovanov, 25-year old mid heavyweight of Khabarovsk, Russia, performs snatches at the training camp of the Soviet national weightlifting team while preparing for the 1964 Summer...

History in Color: Mexico City, Mexico, 1967 – Olympic champion Leonid Zhabotinsky, super heavyweight of Zaporozhye, Ukraine, performs snatch lifts in the training hall in Mexico City during the pre-Olympic training camp with the...

History in Color: July 23, 1971, Moscow, Russia – Yury Kozin, 23-year old heavyweight of the Team Moscow wins a gold medal with 567.5kg (197.5+157.5+212.5) total in the 110kg competitions at the 1971 USSR...