Soviet track and field athlete, hammer thrower and Olympic champion (Montreal, 1976) Yury Sedykh at the World Track and Field Championships in Hannover, West Germany. July 27 - August 2, 1979.01.08.1979#8165026
Soviet figure skaters Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev leave maternity hospital with their newly born son Alexander.28.02.1979#3012145
Boris Mikhailov, USSR Distinguished Master of Sports, forward of the CSKA team, on the bench during a break.01.10.1978#6748335
Yulia Bogdanova, European swimming champion and world record-breaker (left), and Maria Amirova, coach of the Soviet national team. 01.09.1978#56028
The 11th European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships (Czechoslovakia, May 13-14, 1977). Yelena Mukhina, winner of the bar, beam and freestyle events, performs a vault and her famous moon somersault.14.05.1977#6486849
The 11th European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships (Czechoslovakia, May 13-14, 1977). Natalya Shaposhnikova performs a bar routine.14.05.1977#6486850
Natalya Linichuk and Gennady Korponosov, bronze medalists in ice dancing of the World Figure Skating Championships and the European Figure Skating Championships.18.02.1977#6465920
The 21st Summer Olympic Games (July 17 - August 1, 1976) in Montreal. Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion (Munich, 1972) Nikolai Andrianov performs a freestyle routine. He won the event in Montreal as well.27.07.1976#6462899
Olympic, world and European champion, merited master of sports Vyacheslav Starshinov. Head coach of Spartak Moscow since 1972.23.10.1973#5982239
A chess tournament between USSR national teams. Center: International Grandmaster, former world chess champion Vasily Smyslov (1921-2010).01.04.1973#5774407
March 16-20, 1973. Tashkent in he Uzbek SSR hosts the 1973 Druzhba Prize international weightlifting competitions. Photo: Merited Master of Sports and winner in the heavy weight category Pavel Pervushin stands on the platform20.03.1973#5981189
March 16-20, 1973. Tashkent in he Uzbek SSR hosts the 1973 Druzhba Prize international weightlifting competitions. Photo: Merited Master of Sports and winner in the semi-heavy weight category David Rigert stands on the platform.19.03.1973#5981202
The Games of the XX Olympiad in Munich (August 6-September 10, 1972). Photo: Olympic weightlifting champion Vasily Alexeyev, center.05.09.1972#5991220
Olympic champion in weightlifting Vasily Alekseyev during the 20th Summer Olympics in Munich (August 26-September 10, 1972).01.09.1972#5645017
Ukrainian archer Viktor Sidoruk at the 5th Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.07.07.1971#711314
The 37th Ice Hockey World Championships (48th edition of the European Championships), which took place at Stockholm's Johanneshov ice stadium on March 14-30, 1970. Fans are seen in the stands during the final match between the Soviet and Swedish national teams. The Soviet team won a gold medal, grabbing its 10th World Champion title and 14th European Champion title.30.03.1970#8755431
European Figure Skating Championships (Leningrad, February 4-8, 1970). European champions in ice dancing Lyudmila Pakhomova and Alexander Gorshkov. Yubileiny Sports Palace.09.03.1970#6458445
The 1969 USSR Athletics Championship at the Central Stadium in Kiev is the main stage of selection for the Soviet Union national team to participate in the European Championships in Athens. Soviet track and field athlete Alexander Bratchikov repeated the USSR record in the 400-meter race among men: 46.0.18.08.1969#8725580
From right: Soviet track-and-field athlete, Olympic high jump champion and Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Valery Brumel and Bob White a masseur of the US track-and-field team who arrived in Moscow for sports competitions.13.03.1969#6147392
Pentathlete Pavel Lednev, USSR champion, two-time silver medal winner of the world championships in Leipzig, 1965 and Melbourne, 1966. is preparing for the 19th Olympics held in Mexico from 12 to 27 October, 1968.25.08.1968#6091121
Soviet weightlifter, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, world and European champion Viktor Kurentsov.20.06.1968#6086948
Moscow. The 4th Summer Spartakiade of Soviet Nations (July 28 -- August 4, 1967). The Swimming Pool of the Lenin Central Stadium, now the Olympic Swimming Pool and the Luzhniki Aquatic Sports Palace. Soviet swimmer Galina Prozumenshchikova won the 200-meter breast-stroke competitions and the 4 X 100 meter combined relay race.01.07.1967#8725379
Spartak Moscow players, forwards Alexander Yakushev, left, and Viktor Yaroslavtsev.16.11.1966#5938416
1966 USSR track and field championship in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR. Tamara Press, three time Olympic champion, USSR champion, puts the shot.13.08.1966#5920339
Soviet footballer and member of the Soviet national football team Valery Voronin before the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England.20.06.1966#5920922
Right: The first Soviet Olympic swimming champion Galina Prozumenshchikova, a student at the Journalism Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University, prepares for an exam.05.06.1966#6286992
Leonid Zhabotinsky, Soviet weightlifter, Olympic champion (Tokyo, 1964), three-time world champion in super heavyweight, USSR Merited Master of Sports. Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.20.05.1966#5885994
Soviet track and field athlete, Olympic high-jump champion and Honored master of Sports of the USSR Valery Brumel undergoes a rehabilitation course in a swimming pool of the Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emrgency Medicine after an October 6, 1965 road accident.01.03.1966#6291154
The 1965-1966 USSR Men's Basketball Championships (December 22, 1965-March 25, 1966). Photo: Soviet basketball player and the Kalev Tartu team's shooter Priit Tomson, right, takes part in a match.10.01.1966#5982610
Viktor Mikhalchuk (center, wears dark uniform), captain of the USSR junior national team at an international volleyball tournament in Riga (July 4-9, 1965), Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic.06.07.1965#5964026
Silver medalist of the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo Inna Ryskal during a training session of the Soviet national team at an international volleyball tournament in Riga (July 4-9, 1965), Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic.03.07.1965#5964025
The first Soviet Olympic swimming champion Galina Prozumenshchikova won this title at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.15.05.1965#6283923
Center: The first Soviet Olympic swimming champion Galina Prozumenshchikova won this title at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.15.05.1965#6283921
US track-and-field athlete John Thomas calls on Soviet track-and-field athlete and Olympic high-jump champion Valery Brumel.02.05.1965#6339049
A friendly basketball match between Soviet and US teams. Soviet basketball player Nadezhda Zakharova tosses the ball. The Soviet team won 64:39.23.04.1965#6297967
Soviet hockey players during the World and European Hockey Championship on March 3-13, 1965 in Tampere, Finland.03.03.1965#5742312
18th Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo (October 10-24, 1964). Yury Titov, Soviet gymnast, USSR Distinguished Master of Sports, performs freestyle exercise.12.10.1964#6050165
Soviet track-and-field athlete Valery Brumel (high jump), silver medalist of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome and Merited Master of Sports of the USSR, trains for the Games of the XVIII Olympiad in Tokyo (1964).13.07.1964#5951189
Javelin thrower, 1960 Olympic champion and Merited Master of Sport of the USSR Elvira Ozolina trains for a friendly US-Soviet match (July 25-26, 1964, Los Angeles.01.07.1964#5951204
The 44th European Weightlifting Championships in Moscow, June 25-28, 1964. The awards ceremony for heavyweight medalists, from left: silver medalist Karoly Ecser (Hungary, gold medalist Yury Vlasov (Society Union), and bronze medalist Serge Reding (Belgium).28.06.1964#6029159
The 44th European Weightlifting Championships in Moscow. June 25-28, 1964. Yury Vlasov, Soviet weightlifter, Olympic champion, USSR Distinguished Master of Sports sets a new world record by lifting 165 kg.25.06.1964#6337799
The 44th European Weightlifting Championships in Moscow, June 25-28, 1964. Soviet middleweight weightlifter and gold medalist Viktor Kurentsov on the podium.25.06.1964#6029163
The 44th European Weightlifting Championships in Moscow, June 25-28, 1964. Soviet weightlifter, Merited Master of Sports of the USSR, and Olympic heavyweight champion Vladimir Golovanov, gold medalist.25.06.1964#6029161
The 44th European Weightlifting Championships in Moscow, June 25-28, 1964. Soviet heavyweight weightlifter, Olympic champion and Merited Master of Sports of the USSR Yury Vlasov on the podium. The athlete set the world record clean and jerk of 165 kg.25.06.1964#6029156
Seven-time Olympic champion and Merited Master of Sports of the USSR Larisa Latynina trains for the Games of the XVIII Olympiad in Tokyo (1964).16.06.1964#5950382
Seven-time Olympic champion and Merited Master of Sports of the USSR Larisa Latynina trains for the Games of the XVIII Olympiad in Tokyo (1964).16.06.1964#5950378
Track and field athlete Valery Brumel, high jump champion of the 23rd Olympics in Tokyo, Meritd Master of Sport of the USSR with his baby son Sasha.11.06.1964#5948074
Janis Lusis, Soviet track and field athlete, member of the USSR Olympic team, European champion in javelin throwing, prepares for the 18th Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.11.05.1964#5942994
Soviet track and field athletes, members of the Soviet Olympic team prepare for the 18th Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. From right: USSR champion Kim Bukhantsev (discus thrower) and Valery Brumel (high jumper), Distinguished Master of Sports and silver medalist of the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.11.05.1964#5942990
The USSR-USA track and field match at the V.I. Lenin Central Stadium's large arena. Soviet athlete Valery Brumel sets the world high jump record of 2.28 meters.21.07.1963#5864694
Viktor Kosichkin (born 1938), 1961 absolute USSR champion in speed skating, Merited Master of Sports, during a race.13.12.1962#674354
Viktor Kosichkin (born 1938), 1961 absolute USSR champion in speed skating, Merited Master of Sports, during a race.13.12.1962#674352
Tamara Press, Soviet track and field athlete, Olympic champion in shot put, student of the Leningrad Engineering Institute (now St. Petersburg Institute of Architecture and Construction), left, during an exam.20.05.1962#5743583
