Pavel Pervushin
History in Color: April 28, 1973, Donetsk, Ukraine – Pavel Pervushin of the Army Club, Leningrad wins the 110kg weight class at the 1973 USSR Championships in Donetsk. Pavel Pervushin won the national title...
History in Color: April 28, 1973, Donetsk, Ukraine – Pavel Pervushin of the Army Club, Leningrad wins the 110kg weight class at the 1973 USSR Championships in Donetsk. Pavel Pervushin won the national title...
History in Color: Line-up of famous Soviet weightlifters of the first decades after the end of WWII (right to left): Nikolay Shatov, Yevgeny Lopatin, Roman Roman, Grigory Novak, X, Roman Moroz.
History in Color: March 19, 1978, Moscow, Russia – Igor Nikitin of the Army Club, Khabarovsk, Russia wins with the world record of 390kg total (172.5 + 217.5) in the 100kg class at the 1978...
History in Color: March 5, 1982, Frunze, Kirgizia – Alexander Pervy of Donetsk, Ukraine competes in the snatch program of the 82.5kg class at the 1982 Friendship Cup in Frunze. A little later in...
History in Color: May 22, 1982, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine – 19-year old Yury Zakharevich of Dimitrovgrad, Russia competes in the 100kg class at the 1982 USSR Championships in Dnepropetrovsk. Yury Zakharevich won his first USSR...
History in Color: July 26, 1979, Leningrad, Russia – Oleg Karayanidi competes for the Army Team of Moscow in the 56kg class at the 1979 USSR Spartakiade in Leningrad. Oleg Karayanidi (1957-1989) was very...
History in Color: Vladimir Kaplunov (1933-2015) of Khabarovsk, Russia was one of the best lightweight Olympic lifters in the world in the first half of the 1960s. Kaplunov won the World Championship in 1962,...
History in Color: July 25, 1952, Helsinki, Finland – Soviet bantamweight Ivan Udodov of Rostov, Russia receives a gold Olympic medal for winning the 56kg weight class at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki....
History in Color: 2x Olympic vice champion, champion of the World, Europe and USSR, Dito Shanidze (1937-2010) is getting ready for the next attempt.
History in Color: Super heavyweight champion of the 1980 Summer Olympics, Sultan Rakhmanov of the Avangard Club (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine) competes at the 1982 USSR Cup in Moscow