Tagged: USSR

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December 18, 2016

Strong In 1973

Here is a digitally enhanced photo national weightlifting Team CCCP at the training camp in Feodosia. Top row (left to right): David Rigert (Shakhty, 90kg), Rudolf Plyukfelder (Shakhty, coach), Pavel Pervushin (Leningrad, 110kg), N/A,...

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December 16, 2016

Happy Holiday Season To All Baderisomaniacs!

We all love Holiday celebrations and Helmut Balderis, the best hockey player of all times and nations! Back in the days, around every Christmas and New Year, there was the Izvestia Cup, international hockey...

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December 5, 2016

Special Time of the Year

It’s coming again! Holidays season is on its way and we are all catching up with its spirit. Here is a very old picture of celebration of holiday season in my kindergarten in Moscow...

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December 4, 2016

Candid Camera Russian Style

Just a blast from the past… It’s one of the episodes from the Funny Guys TV. Moscow. Winter 1990. A man wearing a black stocking mask on his face is looking lost on the...

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December 1, 2016

Happy Birthday to Alexander Maslyakov

What a year! What a month! Andrey Knyshev turned 60. Alexander Maslyakov turned 75. Both had a significant impact on my career in showbiz in Russia. Both produced comedy TV shows that were super...

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November 19, 2016

Hockey Lines For Balderisomaniacs of the World

… and one more study results on the hockey career of the best player of all times and nations. Balderisomania continues at Chidlovski.Com! This time it’s the all-time list of hockey lines that Helmut...

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November 19, 2016

Russian and American Friendly and Happy in Paris

70 years ago in Paris Time flies. Sometimes faster than we want. Time brings us new trends and politics. New heroes and new anti-heroes. The left photo shows Stanley Stamczyk (USA), Grigory Novak (USSR)...

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November 18, 2016

From the Founders of the Soviet Sport

The original photo was taken at the 1st National Meeting of the Soviet Sports leadership in April 1924. Nikolay Semashko, the Chairman of the Supreme Committee of the Soviet Sport and the National Commissar of Public...

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November 13, 2016

Helmut Balderis: Linemates

Balderisomania continues at Chidlovski.Com! This time it’s a retrospective infographics featuring all linemates of Helmut Balderis that played with him in the Major Hockey League USSR – from 1973 when Balderis and Dynamo Riga...

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November 13, 2016

2016 Hockey Hall Of Fame Induction

HHOF Class 2016 (L-R) : Rogatien Vachon, Kalli Quinn representing the late Pat Quinn, Sergey Makarov and Eric Lindros, take part in the 2016 Hall of Fame Induction on November 11, 2016 in Toronto,...