August 15-25, 1973. The 7th Summer Universiade. The Lenin central Stadium, now the Luzhniki Olympic Complex. Winners of the 4X100 relay race stand on the pedestal. USSR-first place; the Polish People's Republic (Poland)-second place; the German Democratic Republic (East Germany)-third place.20.08.1973#6019467
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 Soviet national volleyball team takes on the Czechoslovakia team and defeats 3:0.18.08.1973#6019468
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
The Camp for Children and Teenagers of Central Water Skiing Sports Club Avrora. Photo: Football is a favorite pastime among young athletes.10.07.1973#5976205
The Camp for Children and Teenagers of Central Water Skiing Sports Club Avrora. Photo: Young athletes set to take part in a training session.10.07.1973#5976204
The Camp for Children and Teenagers of Central Water Skiing Sports Club Avrora. Photo: Natalia Lukyanova, the youngest camp athlete.10.07.1973#5976203
The Camp for Children and Teenagers of Central Water Skiing Sports Club Avrora. Photo: Athlete Natalia Pavlova on a water slalom course.10.07.1973#5976202
The Camp for Children and Teenagers of Central Water Skiing Sports Club Avrora. Photo: Trampoline jumping is part of a program for training young athletes10.07.1973#5976200
The Camp for Children and Teenagers of Central Water Skiing Sports Club Avrora. Photo: Chess is a favorite pastime among young athletes.10.07.1973#5976199
The Camp for Children and Teenagers of Central Water Skiing Sports Club Avrora. Photo: A young athlete in between training sessions.10.07.1973#5976198
The Camp for Children and Teenagers of Central Water Skiing Sports Club Avrora. Photo: Young fishermen.10.07.1973#5976197
The Camp for Children and Teenagers of Central Water Skiing Sports Club Avrora. Photo: Learning how to control a speedboat.10.07.1973#5976196
The Camp for Children and Teenagers of Central Water Skiing Sports Club Avrora. Photo: Young athlete Andrei Pavlenko.10.07.1973#5976195
Emma Gapchenko, a member of the Soviet national archery team, an absolute world champion and an Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.03.06.1973#6186721
Anatoly Ivanenko takes part in the Spring Arrows international archery competitions.26.05.1973#6186719
Anatoly Ivanenko takes part in the Spring Arrows international archery competitions.26.05.1973#6186718
Vilnius, the Lithuanian SSR. Athletes parade during a demonstration marking the Day of Working People's International Solidarity.01.05.1973#6186717
Lomonosov Moscow State University students play football on Leninskiye Hills, now Vorobyovy Hills, in winter.19.01.1973#5671845
A photo from the "Police lieutenant Nina Demchenko" series by Yury Abramochkin. APN-68 photo show.01.01.1973#686523
The Games of the XX Olympiad in Munich (August 6-September 10, 1972). Photo: Olympic artistic gymnastics champion (balance beam, floor event and team event) Olga Korbut.01.09.1972#5991219
Honored master of Sports of the USSR, member of the Soviet national track and field team and sprinter Valery Borzov.10.08.1972#6210591
The USSR Track and Field Championship in Moscow (July 17-20, 1972). Pole vaulting event at the Lenin central Stadium, now the Luzhniki Olympic Complex. Gennady Gusev, a member of the Soviet national track and field team.19.07.1972#6602545
Members of student construcrtion teams from Irkutsk and Bratsk are building a bobsleigh route on Mount Pikhtovaya in Bratsk.22.08.1971#6312620
Moscow, the Soviet Union. Photo: Members of a health improvement group exercise at the Lenin Central Stadium in Luzhniki.01.05.1971#5969516
Moscow, the Soviet Union. Photo: Members of a health improvement group exercise at the Lenin Central Stadium in Luzhniki.01.05.1971#5969507
The Belarusian SSR. Hungarian weightlifter Jeno Ambrosy fails to lift the barbell during the Friendship Prize International Weightlifting Competitions12.03.1970#6306364
The Belarusian SSR. Soviet weightlifter Valery Ukhanov on the podium during the Friendship Prize International Weightlifting Competitions.12.03.1970#6306361
The Belarusian SSR. Soviet weightlifter Vasily Alexeyev sets new world record during the Friendship Prize International Weightlifting Competitions.12.03.1970#6306358
The All-Union individual/team Gorodki (Skittles) qualification. A player prepares to hit the Shooting Gallery figure.20.09.1969#6436169
The All-Union individual/team Gorodki (Skittles) qualification. Athlete Yury Gavrilov holds a bat during the competitions.20.09.1969#6436168
The All-Union individual/team Gorodki (Skittles) qualification. The Cannon is the main figure that should be knocked out during the game.20.09.1969#6436167
The Lithuanian SSR. Photo: Soviet Lithuanian boxer and Honored Coach of the USSR Algirdas Socikas at a training session at the Zalgiris Sports Society in Kaunas.01.07.1969#6116526
Holidaymakers at the Spartak-Yunost (Youth) sports and health improvement camp on the Khudat-Yalaminskoye beach in the Azerbaijani SSR.01.07.1969#6233276
On May 31-June 8, 1969, Bucharest, Romania, hosted the European Boxing Championships. Photo: Soviet lightweight boxer and champion Sergei Lomakin, left, attack his opponent. He won bronze during the championships.01.06.1969#6157230
The European Ice Hockey Championships in Stockholm (March 15-30, 1969). Vladimir Petrov, a striker with the Soviet national team, attacks the Swedish goal.18.03.1969#6109361
The World and European Ice Hockey Championships in Stockholm, March 15-30, 1969. Photo: Soviet players score against Canada.18.03.1969#6109359
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 skier Nina Romanko, a prospective member of the Soviet national cross-country skiing team and a member of the Dynamo sports society, on a ski course.01.02.1969#6134509
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
Soviet skiers T. Paletia and N. Kogovnisha, prospective members of the Soviet cross-country skiing team, before competitions.01.02.1969#6134507
The 2nd All-Union Summer Spartakiade for Young Dynamo Athletes marking the 45th anniversary of the Dynamo Sports Society. Photo: Heavyweight boxer V. Murashov and his coach Grigory Kusikyants.01.08.1968#6019461
Valery Skvortsov, a member of the Soviet track-and-field team, during a training session.01.06.1968#5860936
The Sports Palace in Rostov-on-Don, now the Sport-Don Sports Complex, was completed in 1967 under a standard 1956 design.19.11.1967#6137880
The 1967 USSR Ice Hockey Championships. CSKA Moscow plays against Spartak Moscow, with CSKA defender Vladimir Lutchenko thwarting the rival team's attack.15.11.1967#6130584
The 1967 USSR Ice Hockey Championships. CSKA Moscow plays against Spartak Moscow, with CSKA players attacking the rival team's goal.15.11.1967#6130581
The Ukrainian SSR. Finals of the 2nd European Athletics Cup at the Central Stadium in Kiev. Soviet athlete Antonina Okorokova-Lazareva, winner of the high-jump event, holds the main prize.16.09.1967#6129966
The finals of the 2nd European Athletics Cup at the Central Stadium in Kiev in the Ukrainian SSR. Photo: Soviet track-and-field athlete Valentin Gavrilov, winner of the high-jump event, watches his rivals in action.16.09.1967#6129964
The finals of the 2nd European Athletics Cup at the Central Stadium in Kiev in the Ukrainian SSR. Photo: French runner Jean-Claude Nallet, center, won the 200-meter race.16.09.1967#6129962
Opening ceremony of the 4th Spartakiade of Soviet Nations in Moscow (July 28-August 4, 1967) at the Grand Sports Arena of the Vladimir Lenin Central Stadium, now the Grand Sports Arena of the Luzhniki Olympic Complex.28.07.1967#6136236
A sports festival in Leningrad dedicated to the 4th Summer Spartakiade of Soviet Peoples, held in Moscow from July 28 until August 4, 1967.20.07.1967#5859774
The 4th Summer Spartakiade of RSFSR Nations in July-August 1967. Photo: Gymnasts perform at the Kirov Stadium in Leningrad.15.07.1967#6130576
Cyclists race to victory during the 4th Summer Spartakiade of RSFSR Nations in July-August 1967.15.07.1967#6130573
