USA vs. USSR: Firm Handshake in 1956
History in Color: Champions of the 1956 Summer Olympics Paul Anderson (USA, left) and Arkady Vorobyev (USSR) exchange a firm handshake behind the scenes of the Olympics in Melbourne. Head coach of Team USSR...
History in Color: Champions of the 1956 Summer Olympics Paul Anderson (USA, left) and Arkady Vorobyev (USSR) exchange a firm handshake behind the scenes of the Olympics in Melbourne. Head coach of Team USSR...
History in Color: The cover photo features two strongest Soviet light heavyweights in 1970 – Gennady Ivanchenko (left) of Riga, Latvia and David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia. Both are definitely familiar to the Iron...
History in Color: One of the best Olympic pressers in the history of weightlifting, Grigory Novak performs an exhibition lifting at the football stadium in the 194os. Grigory Novak (1919-1980) was a national hero...
History in Color: One of the pioneers of Olympic weightlifting in the USSR, Israel Mekhanik (1909-1989) performs a one-hand snatch in the mid 1930s. Israel Mechanik competed in the light weight for the Lokomotiv...
Richard Pipes, one of the most well-known experts in the world on Russian history, the Russian revolution in 1917 and the history of Bolshevik regime, has died at 94. I met Dr. Richard Pipes...
History in Color: R. Plyukfelder The History in Color cover photo features our color version of the black-and-white photo of legendary Olympic weightlifter and coach Rudolf Plukfelder back in 1959. Rudolf Plukfelder...
History in Color: One of the rare group shots of the earliest Olympic weightlifting pioneers in the USSR (left to right): Front row: Alexander Miezitis (former wrestler and Latvian Olympian (1912), one of the...
History in Color: World records holder, 3x USSR champion (1983, 1984, 1987), USSR Spartakiad champion (1983), 3x USSR Cup winner (1982, 1983, 1985), 3x clean-and-jerk USSR champion and 6x USSR snatch champion, lightweight Vladimir...
The question is most definitely sarcastic. The cover photo of the History in Color series features the 1984 Team USSR Weightlifting. Due to the boycott of the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles by the...
History in Color: June 23, 1970, Szombathely, Hungary – Legendary Gennady Ivanchenko of Riga, Latvia competes for Team CCCP in the light heavyweight at the 1970 European Championship in Szombathely. In the end of...