Yuri Eduardovich Dumchev, 1977 European junior champion in discus throw (the Trud sports club, Moscow) at a weightlifting competition.01.07.1980#813492
Gymnast Aleksandr Vasilievich Tkachev (b. 1957) performing parallel bars exercises at an artistic gymnastics competition.01.07.1980#813486
Gymnast Aleksandr Vasilievich Tkachev (b. 1957) performing high bar exercises at an artistic gymnastics competition.01.07.1980#813485
Vasily Arkhipenko, International Master of Sports in track and field, World Championship bronze medalist (1978) in 400 meter hurdles race, winner of the VII Summer Games of Soviet Peoples (1979), during a pre-Olympic tournament.18.05.1980#813497
Svetlana Ulmasova (b. 1953), European Champion in 3000-meter run (8 minutes 26.78 seconds) (1978), during a track and field competition.01.04.1980#817192
Gymnast, absolute champion of the Olympic gymnastics Spartakiad Alexander Dityatin (b. 1957) performing exercises on bars. Olympic Gymnastic Tournament. 7th Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR (19 July - 4 August 1979).01.08.1979#817100
Gymnast, absolute champion of the Olympic gymnastics Spartakiad Alexander Dityatin (b. 1957) performing exercises on rings. Olympic Gymnastic Tournament. 7th Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR (19 July - 4 August 1979).01.08.1979#817097
Vladimir Nikitin, Soviet race driver, designer and head of the student design office of Kharkov Automobile and Highway Institute (now Kharkov National Automobile and Highway University) and young engineers.10.09.1978#5963991
Svetlana Ulmasova, European Championships' winner in 3000-meter run (8 minutes 26.78 seconds), on the honor pedestal. The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.01.08.1978#817198
Nina Pronyushkina (left) and Elya Fomicheva, world record-holders in delayed jumps from the stratosphere01.07.1978#56982
The XXI Summer Olympics. July 17 August – 1, 1976. Soviet decathlete Nikolai Avilov.28.07.1976#2993337
The XXI Summer Olympics. July 17 August – 1, 1976. Soviet athlete Viktor Saneyev during a competition.20.07.1976#2993334
The newspaper Pravda track and field tournament. Aleksandr Baryshnikov in the shot-put section.31.05.1976#5504475
The newspaper Pravda track and field tournament. Winner of competitions, the Soviet Olympic team candidate shot-putter Svetlana Krachevskaya.31.05.1976#5504473
The newspaper Pravda track and field tournament. A 400m race record holder Nadezhda Iliana.31.05.1976#5504465
Nadezhda Mushta being in the lead in 600-meter race. The USSR Winter Track and Field Championships. The stadium of Brothers Znamenskiye Central Track and Field School.01.02.1976#694418
Olympic champion Valery Borzov winning a 100m race at the Track and Field Championship between the USSR, the USA and Bulgaria.01.10.1975#698132
The 1975 World Weightlifting Championships. September 15-23, 1975. The Palace of Sports of the Central Lenin Stadium in Luzhniki. On the lifting platform is Vasily Alekseyev, Olympic champion (Munich, 1972), world all-round champion in the super heavyweight category.22.09.1975#5791493
The 1975 World Weightlifting Championships. September 15-23, 1975. The Palace of Sports of the Central Lenin Stadium in Luzhniki. On the lifting platform is Vasily Alekseyev, Olympic champion (Munich, 1972), world all-round champion in the super heavyweight category.22.09.1975#5791484
Record holder of the USSR and the world in archery, four-time world champion, 3rd place winner of the Olympic Games in 1972 in Munich Emma Gapchenko.13.07.1975#5588530
Vladimir Nikitin, designer of high-speed cars, worker of the Kharkov Car and Road Institute, world and Soviet record-holder in car racing, talks to KhADI-11E pilot before a race. Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.07.06.1975#6215053
The VII Summer Universiade (August 15-25, 1973). Grand Sports Arena of Lenin Central Stadium (now Grand Sports Arena of Luzhniki Olympic Complex). Soviet track-and-field athlete and Olympic discus throwh champion Faina Melnik.18.08.1973#5773680
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
Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR. 1973 USSR Weightlifting Championships. Vasily Alexeyev, the country's super heavyweight (over 110 kg)champion.29.04.1973#5810002
Donets, Ukrainian SSR. USSR Weightlifting Championships, 26-29 April, 1093. The country's heavyweight champion Pavel Pervushin.29.04.1973#5809250
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
Igor Ter-Ovanesian, Yevgeny Arzhanov, Valery Borzov - Olympic, World, European and USSR champions in track-and-field athletics, Honoured Masters of Sports of the USSR (from left to right).01.09.1972#495447
Valery Borzov, Soviet sprinter and gold winner of the 20th Summer Olympic Games in Munich (1972).25.08.1972#6316255
A Soviet track and field athlete, champion of the 1972 Olympic Games in hammer throw Anatoly Bondarchuk, left, discusses techniques of hammer throwing with his coach Mikhail Krivonosov.01.06.1972#5684480
A member of the track and field team of the USSR, champion of the 1972 Olympic Games Faina Melnik.01.06.1972#5684476
Valery Borzov, Olympic champion and repeated European and USSR champion in track and field athletics.01.06.1972#495584
Yevgeny Arzhanov and Valery Borzov - Olympic and many-time European and USSR champions in track-and-field athletics (from left to right).01.06.1972#495426
Valery Borzov - Olympic and many-time European and USSR champions in track-and-field athletics signing autographs for his fans.01.06.1972#495390
Valery Borzov, Olympic champion and repeated European and USSR champion in track and field athletics.01.05.1972#495529
Vyacheslav Vedenin (right), a member of the USSR national cross-country skiing team.20.02.1972#688322
Weightlifter Vasily Alekseyev during a weightlifting competition at the 5th USSR Summer Spartakiade.20.07.1971#5611153
Absolute Soviet champion in parachute jumping, world record holder Svetlana Kryachek.13.07.1970#5794787
Soviet parachute jumpers: Lidiya Yeremina, top left, USSR Merited Master of Sports and world record holder, Irina Tkachenko, top right, world record holder and USSR champion, and Tatyana Morozycheva (Torchilova), member of the Yaroslavl aviation club, member of the Soviet national parachuting team.13.07.1970#5794785
Soviet track-and-field athlete Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, a many-time world long-jump record-holder and two-time Olympic bronze medalist (1960 and 1964), relaxes with his children at a his dacha.13.07.1970#5974571
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, Soviet athlete, many-time record holder in long jump, two-time Olympic bronze medalist (1960 and 1964), with his family at the dacha.13.07.1970#5974561
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, Soviet athlete, many-time record holder in long jump, two-time Olympic bronze medalist (1960 and 1964), at his dacha in the Moscow Region.13.07.1970#5974560
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, Soviet athlete, many-time record holder in long jump, two-time Olympic bronze medalist (1960 and 1964), swimming in the Moscow Region.13.07.1970#5974558
Soviet track and field athlete, multiple world record holder in long jump Igor Ter-Ovanesyan.10.07.1970#5947184
Ludmila Mochalina, USSR women's all-around champion in sport aviation, winner of the World Aerobatic Championships, world Yak-32 speed record-holder , Merited Master of Sport, tragically died in a Yak-30 plane during a flight on September 8, 1965.15.06.1970#5817666
