Weightlifters in Crystal Palace in London
October 28, 1975 – Legendary super heavyweight Vasily Alexeev of Team CCCP is being rubbed down with chalk powder by the Soviet Head Coach Igor Kudyukov before the competition at the Crystal Palace in...
October 28, 1975 – Legendary super heavyweight Vasily Alexeev of Team CCCP is being rubbed down with chalk powder by the Soviet Head Coach Igor Kudyukov before the competition at the Crystal Palace in...
History in Color: 1967 USSR Spartakiade The History in Color cover photo features a group shot of participants of the 1967 USSR Spartakiade in Moscow, Russia. The winners of the tournaments are lined up...
RLOL is a little tag for Russian humor. Most of the times, it’s almost impossible to translate or to try to explain it. You’ve got to grow up in Russia to be able to...
May 12, 1980, Moscow, Russia – Flyweight candidate to the Olympic Team USSR, Kanybek Osmonaliev of Burevestnik, Frunze, Kirgizia, competes in the 52.5kg weight class at the 1980 USSR Championship held at the Izmailovo...
July 23, 1971, Moscow, USSR – 25-year old Estonian heavyweight Toivo Kurg competes in the 110kg weight class at the 1971 USSR Spartakiad in the Red Army Weightlifting Hall in Moscow. Toivo Kurg (b....
On the cover History in Color series photo, Olympic champion Sultan Rakhmanov of Avangard, Dnepropetrovsk, competes in the super heavyweight class at the 1979 USSR Spartakiad in Leningrad, Russia. Besides winning the Olympic super heavyweight title...
The original black-and-white photo came from persinal archives of legendary Soviet weightlifter and coach George Popov of Kiev, Ukraine. On the photo, George Popov (on the right) is depicted with his student Pinchas Kirshon in...
May 22, 1982, Dnepropetrovsk – 20-year old Israil Arsamakov of the Dynamo, Grozny club sets a new snatch world record of 179kg in the light heavyweight class at the 1982 USSR Championship at the...
History in Color: A group shot of Soviet weightlifters that won gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow: (left to right) Viktor Mazin (Shakhtinsk, Kazakhstan, 60kg), Yury Sandalov (USSR Weightlifting Federation, Secretary), Sultan Rakhmanov...
August 3, 1964, Podolsk, Russia – Legendary Soviet heavyweight Yury Vlasov pressed 196kg and set new world record in this lift. In his career, Yury Vlasov authored 31 world records. Six of them were...