Member of the USSR National Athletics team, 1978 Europe Champion, bronze medalist of the Olympiad-76 in Montreal, winner of 1979 Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR Vera Anisimova.01.07.1980#816654
Absolute World and Europe Champion of 1979 Alexander Dityatin performing one of the most difficult exercises on rings - L cross.01.07.1980#816653
Yuri Sargsyan, Junior World and European Weightlifting Champion in 1979 under 56 kilograms weight category, USSR champion in 1979, silver medalist at 1980 European Championship.01.07.1980#813637
Member of the national USSR basketball team and CSKA team (Moscow) Lyubov Sharmai at the 47th USSR Women's Basketball Championship.01.01.1980#816668
Soviet basketball player, Honored Master of Sports Sergei Belov, the captain of CSKA and the Soviet national team.01.10.1974#2929972
Soviet basketball player, Honored Master of Sports Sergei Belov (No. 10) during a game.01.10.1974#2929971
Soviet basketball player, Honored Master of Sports Sergei Belov, the captain of CSKA and the Soviet national team, with his daughter Natasha.01.10.1974#2929970
A match between basketball teams CSKA and Spartak (Leningrad). Soviet basketball player, Honored Master of Sports Sergei Belov, the captain of CSKA and the Soviet national team (No. 10) during the game.01.10.1974#2929969
August 15-25, 1973. The 7th Summer Universiade. From left: Winners of the saber fencing finals: Pal Gerevic (Hungary), Vladimir Nazlymov (USSR)-gold and Dani Irimicuk (Romania).23.08.1973#6019469
The 7th Summer World University Games Universiade-73 (August 15-25, 1973). Former world champion and international grand master Tigran Petrosyan conducts a simultaneous exhibition against Universiade participants.20.08.1973#6152614
August 15-25, 1973. The 7th Summer Universiade. Photo: Nadezhda Tkachenko, winner of the pentathlon event, signs autograph.19.08.1973#6019471
August 15-25, 1973. The 7th Summer Universiade. From left: Winners of the pentathlon event -- Nadezhda Tkachenko (USSR)-gold; Diana Jones-Konichowski (Canada)-bronze and Tatiana Vorokhobko (USSR)-silver.19.08.1973#6019470
August 15-25, 1973. The 7th Summer Universiade. The Lenin Central Stadium, now the Luzhniki Olympic Complex. Soviet track and field athlete Yevgeny Arzhanov wins the 800-meter race.15.08.1973#6019466
20th Summer Olympic Games in Munich (August 26 - September 10, 1972). Soviet track and field athlete, sprinter, Merited Master of Sports of the USSR, 100 and 200 m Olympic champion Valery Borzov during the award ceremony.10.09.1972#5975533
Ice hockey competition for prize of Izvestiya newspaper. The USSR vs. Finland. Russia scoring goal. The USSR's forward Alexander Maltsev.17.12.1971#5508852
World and Olympic freestyle wrestling champion Alexander Medved, a graduate of the Belorusian Institute of Physical Fitness, in the institute's reading hall.01.10.1971#705145
Soviet track and field athlete, multiple world record holder in long jump Igor Ter-Ovanesyan.10.07.1970#5947184
Soviet chess player and international grand master Boris Spassky plays against grand master Tigran Petrosyan during a match of the 1969 World Chess Championships (April 14-June 17, 1969).05.06.1969#6242140
International grand master Tigran Petrosyan plays against Boris Spassky during a match of the 1969 World Chess Championships (April 14-June 17, 1969).05.06.1969#6242135
The 1969 World and European Ice Hockey Championships in Stockholm (March 15-30, 1969). National teams of the Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (Czechoslovak) play against each other. Photo: The Soviet team's attacker Vladimir Vikulov in action.28.03.1969#6237133
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
Soviet gymnast, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR and absolute Soviet gymnastics champion Natalia Kuchinskaya.11.03.1969#6169056
Soviet gymnast, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR and absolute Soviet gymnastics champion Natalia Kuchinskaya.11.03.1969#6169055
Soviet gymnast, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR and absolute Soviet gymnastics champion Natalia Kuchinskaya on Kalinin Avenue, now Novy Arbat Street.11.03.1969#6169054
Soviet gymnast, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR and absolute Soviet gymnastics champion Natalia Kuchinskaya.11.03.1969#6169050
Pilot-Cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov trains on a bicycle exerciser. This makes it possible to expose latent coronary insufficiency and to determine his individual physical stamina levels.13.02.1969#6116948
Soviet football player and goal keeper of the Soviet national team Yury Pshenichnikov.05.02.1969#6164871
Many-time USSR champion Soviet skier Alevtina Olyukina-Smirnova, a prospective member of the Soviet national cross-country skiing team and a member of the Trud (Labor) sports society, on a ski course.01.02.1969#6134508
A meeting marking the end of the Soyuz-4/Soyuz-5 space mission (January 14-18, 1969). From left: Crew members, pilots-cosmonauts Vladimir Shatalov, Boris Volynov, Alexei Yeliseyev and Yevgeny Khrunov during the awards ceremony at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, now the State Kremlin Palace.22.01.1969#6118070
The Kazakh SSR. Welcoming crews of the Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5 spacecraft [that flew on January 14-18, 1969] after landing. From left: Cosmonauts Vladimir Shatalov and Yevgeny Khrunov.18.01.1969#6019460
The Cosmonaut Training Center. From left: Members of the Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5 space crews Pilots-Cosmonauts Alexei Yeliseyev, Vladimir Shatalov and Yevgeny Khrunov inside a spacecraft simulator.01.01.1969#6116954
The Cosmonaut Training Center. From left: Members of the Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5 space crews Pilots-Cosmonauts Alexei Yeliseyev, Yevgeny Khrunov Vladimir Shatalov and Boris Volynov.01.01.1969#6116951
Master of Sports of the USSR Sergei Kutivadze, a midfielder with the Dynamo Tbilisi football team.20.10.1968#6089587
The 19th Summer Olympics in Mexico, October 12-27, 1968. Photo: Oleg Lapkin, a member of the Soviet national rifle shooting team.13.10.1968#6079538
Ukrainian SSR. Soviet weightlifter, Olympic champion (Tokyo, 1964) Leonid Zhabotinsky with his son Ruslan.12.07.1968#6172702
Ukrainian SSR. Soviet weightlifter, Olympic champion (Tokyo, 1964) Leonid Zhabotinsky on a stroll.12.07.1968#6172701
Ukrainian SSR. Soviet weightlifter, Olympic champion (Tokyo, 1964) Leonid Zhabotinsky on holiday with friends.12.07.1968#6172700
Winner of the singles' competition Olga Morozova at the International Tennis Tournament in Moscow.10.07.1968#6087779
Soviet weightlifter, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, world and European champion Viktor Kurentsov.20.06.1968#6086948
International grand masters Boris Spassky and Yefim Geller take part in a chess tournament.15.06.1968#6079706
Makhachkala in the Daghestani ASSR. Photo: Five-time world freestyle wrestling champion Ali Aliyev, a post-graduate student at the Daghestani Medical Institute, now Daghestani State Medical University.10.04.1968#6078409
Soviet freestyle and Sambo (Unarmed Combat) wrestler, Olypic heavyweight champion (964) nd four-time freestyle wrestling champion Alexander Ivanitsky takes a walk with his son.01.12.1966#6292643
Soviet freestyle and Sambo (Unarmed Combat) wrestler, Olypic heavyweight champion (1964) and four-time freestyle wrestling champion Alexander Ivanitsky, his wife and son visit a store.01.12.1966#6292642
Absolute Soviet aerobatic flying champion Vladimir Martemyanov, a member of the Soviet national team, before the aerobatic championship in Moscow.28.06.1966#6038369
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
The closing ceremony of the world chess championship match between the incumbent champion Tigran Petrosyan and winner of the candidates competition Boris Spassky. The Moscow Variety Theater. Tigran Petrosyan, twice world chess champion.21.05.1966#6081780
Soviet ice hockey player Konstantin Loktev, Olympic champion, many-times champion of Europe and the world, bids farewell to the hockey.20.04.1966#5920913
The 1966 World Ice Hockey Championships in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia (March 3-13, 1966). Left: Soviet hockey player during a match.03.03.1966#6327953
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
A friendly ice hockey match between Soviet and US national teams on the Ice Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium in Luzhniki. Soviet hockey player Boris Maiorov during the match.08.02.1966#6327952
Pilots-Cosmonauts of the USSR Alexei Leonov, center, and Pavel Belyayev, right, during filming of a joint documentary on space exploration by US television company NBC and Novosti Press Agency, now International Information Agency Rossiya Segodnya.01.10.1965#6324120
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
