The USSR Track-and-Field Championships. August 10-15, 1963. The Lenin Stadium in Luzhniki. Olympic champion (Rome, 1960), repeated world record holder Elvira Ozolina is seen in the javelin throw sector.13.08.1963#5754162
Soviet weightlifter Leonid Zhabotinsky during competitions at the 3rd Summer Spartakiade of the Peoples of the USSR.01.08.1963#5864696
the USSR-USA track meet at the Lenin Luzhniki Stadium. High jump. Soviet athlete, USSR Merited Master of Sports Taisia Chenchik clears the bar.27.07.1963#2607202
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
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, Soviet athlete, multiple world record holder in long jump. Big Sports Arena of the Vladimir Lenin Central Stadium (now Luzhniki Stadium).10.06.1963#5940622
Soviet track-and-field athlete Anatoly Vedyakov during a race walking training session at Lenin Central Stadium, now Luzhniki Stadium.15.05.1963#6043300
Moscow Prize International Weightlifting Competition, March 15-17, 1963. Soviet weightlifter Leonid Zhabotinsky during the competition.15.03.1963#5999395
Moscow Prize International Weightlifting Competition, March 15-17, 1963. Soviet weightlifter Sergei Lopatin during the competition.15.03.1963#5999393
Winners in 1,500m race, Soviet speed skaters and Merited Masters of Sports: Lidiya Skoblikova (gold), Valentina Smetanina (silver) and Inga Voronina (bronze). World Speedskating Championship (women) in Karuidzava city.21.02.1963#674360
Soviet weightlifter, champion of the USSR and medalist of European and world championships Sergey Lopatin.03.02.1963#5996674
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
USSR-USA International Track and Field Match, V.I.Lenin Central Stadium in Luzhniki, Moscow. Soviet high jumper Valery Brumel sets a new world record by conquering the height of 224 cm.18.07.1961#5815160
Tatiana Shchelkanova, world record-holder in the long jump performing at the Znamensky track-and-field memorial09.07.1961#37629
Soviet track and field athlete, European and USSR long jump champion Igor Ter-Ovanesyan.06.07.1960#5694791
Yury Vlasov, Soviet weightlifter, Merited Master of Sports of the Soviet Union, world and European champion.20.06.1960#5794540
Grigory Kiselev, a student of the Bauman Moscow higher Technical School (currently Bauman Moscow Technical University), a Soviet swimmer, member of the Burevestnik sports club.01.06.1960#5629019
International track and field competition between the USSR and FRG teams on the Lenin Central stadium (present-day Luzhniki). Soviet hammer thrower Vasily Rudenkov.26.08.1959#5627595
The 1958 USSR motorcycle road racing championship. Irina Ozolina, repeated USSR champion, USSR Merited Master of Sports, during the competition.14.08.1958#5474194
Soviet athlete, stayer and European champion Vladimir Kuts prepares for the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.03.09.1956#6406664
The first summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR in athletics in Moscow. Lenin Central Stadium (now Luzhniki), August 5-16, 1956. Soviet track and field athlete Nina Ponomaryova-Romashkova (Moscow), winner of the Spartakiad in discus throw among women, is seen after performance.14.08.1956#8912288
The first summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR in athletics in Moscow. Lenin Central Stadium (now Luzhniki), August 5-16, 1956. Soviet track and field athlete Nina Ponomaryova-Romashkova (Moscow), winner of the Spartakiad in discus throw among women. Her result is 51.88 m.14.08.1956#8912269
First USSR Summer Spartakiade in Moscow (August 5-16, 1956). Track and field competition at the Vladimir Lenin Central Stadium (now Luzhniki Olympic Center). Athlete Nina Otkalenko during a relay.11.08.1956#5944143
First USSR Summer Spartakiade (August 5-16, 1956) in Moscow. Vladimir Lenin Central Stadium (now Big Sports Arena at the Luzhniki Olympic Center). Long jumping sector. USSR champion, pentathlete Nina Vinogradova.10.08.1956#6401528
First USSR Summer Spartakiade (August 5-16, 1956) in Moscow. Vladimir Lenin Central Stadium (now Big Sports Arena at the Luzhniki Olympic Center). Journalists interview 1952 Helsinki Olympics champion in shot put Galina Zybina.10.08.1956#6402959
Soviet speed skater Sofya Kondakova, Merited Master of Sport, 1956 world champion in women's classical all-round event in Kvarnsveden, Sweden, is at home with her husband.01.03.1956#5815812
Galina Zybina, Soviet track and field athlete, Olympic champion in shot put and USSR Merited Master of Sports.01.06.1955#5864886
Rimma Zhukova, Soviet speedskater and USSR Merited Master of Sports and multiple world champion.15.02.1953#8132196
The XV Summer Olympic Games (July 19 - August 3, 1952) in Helsinki (Finland). Polish and Soviet athletes in the Olympic Village in the Otaniemi region (Espoo), specially created for athletes from socialist countries, where they lived and trained most of the time. In the center is Soviet athlete Galina Zybina, 1952 Olympic champion in shot put.27.07.1952#8553053
July 19- August 3, 1952. The 15th Summer Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland. On July 25, the Messuhalli Gym hosted the men's weightlifting competitions (weight category up to 56 kilograms). This photo shows Ivan Udodov, the first Soviet weightlifting champion after the medals ceremony.25.07.1952#8556531
July 19- August 3, 1952. The 15th Summer Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland. On July 25, the Messuhalli Gym hosted the men's weightlifting competitions (weight category up to 56 kilograms). Center: Ivan Udodov, the first Soviet weightlifting champion, who won gold on the pedestal. Iranian weightlifters Mahmoud Namju and Ali Mirzai won silver and bronze each.25.07.1952#8556503
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The city of Mikhailovka of Donetsk coal-mining field. Drill runner Luka Golokolosov.01.01.1952#5478192
Alexei Stakhanov (1906-1977), miner, coal industry innovator, and founder of the Stakhanov movement. Moscow, 1936. Reproduction.01.06.1936#2930140
Anna Shishmareva answers journalists' questions about her record-breaking jump from the altitude of 7,923 meters01.06.1935#5633832
One of the first Soviet parachute female jumpers Nina Kamneva, who set a world record in women's delayed jump with a free fall on August 13, 1934.13.08.1934#3053543
The 1925 International Chess Tournament held at the Fountain Hall of the Second House of Soviets (now Metropol Hotel) between November 10 and December 8, 1925, in Moscow. Cuban chess player and 1921 world champion Jose Raul Capablanca, left, plays against former world champion, German chess player Emanuel Lasker.01.11.1925#6517528
