Golovanov
History in Color: July 18, 1964, Kiev, Ukraine, USSR – Vladimir Golovanov of the Army Club, Khabarovsk, Russia wins the 1964 USSR Championship title in the 90kg class with the world record of 485kg...
Tagged: USSR
Eternal World Records: 213.5kg Press By Y.Kozin
History in Color: July 14, 1972, Riga, Latvia – Soviet heavyweight Yury Kozin of Moscow, Russia presses a 213.5kg world record in the 110kg class at the 1972 Baltic Cup in Riga. After the...
World Legend of the Middleweight
History in Color: The cover photo features legendary Soviet middleweight Viktor Kurentov, Olympic champion, 5x World champion, 7x European champion, 9x USSR champion and a holder of 22 world records set in his outstanding...
Yury Zaytsev
History in Color: Olympic champion Yury Zaytsev is performing clean-and-jerk at the 1979 USSR Spartakiade in Leningrad, Russia. Yury Zaytsev was one of the strongest Soviet heavyweights (110kg) in the 1970s. He competed for...
Zhabotinsky
History in Color: August 3, 1967, Moscow, Russia – Soviet super heavyweight Leonid Zhabotinsky of Zaporozhye, Ukraine competes at the 1967 USSR Spartakiade in Moscow. At the time, Leonid Zhabotinsky was the strongest man...
Reading Finnish Newspaper
History in Color: I am not sure how many people in the world can read in Finnish. Obviously, it’s not a native language of Rafael Chimishkyan shown on the cover photo. My guess the...
Vladimir Marchuk
History in Color: Mighty Soviet super heavyweight Vladimir Marchuk of Moscow, Russia is resting between pull sets during training in the early 1980s.
Featherweight Katsura
History in Color: Eugene Katsura of the Army Club, Moscow competes in the 60kg weight class at the 1964 USSR Championship in Kiev, Ukraine. Eugene Katsura (1937-1967) was a strong Soviet feather and lightweight...
Tregubov
History in Color: 21-year old Viktor Tregubov of Shakhty, Russia is competing in the clean-and-jerk program of the 90kg weight class at the 1986 USSR Spartakiade in Moscow, Russia. Six years afterwards, Tregubov became...
February 23: Celebrating the Soldier’s Day
Celebrating the old Day of the Army and Navy in the USSR… Congrats to all who still does the celebrations. It was a notable holiday on the calendars back in the old Soviet Union....
