A Soviet athlete, gallery practice shooter, champion of the 1956 Olympics Vasily Fyodorovich Borisov.01.07.1962#5684142
Polina Astakhova, Olympic champion and world champion in artistic gymnastics, performs her balance beam routine.25.06.1962#5750367
Boris Shakhlin, Olympic champion and world champion in artistic gymnastics, performs his pommel horse routine.20.06.1962#5750370
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
Irina Press, a Soviet track and field athlete, an Olympic champion in pentathlon, and a student of the Leningrad Institute of Railway Engineers (currently the Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University) in class.20.05.1962#5743578
The 16th USSR ice hockey championship (October 21, 1961 - April 15, 1962). The game between Spartak Moscow and Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo's player Vitaly Davydov.15.04.1962#5748961
The 16th USSR ice hockey championship (October 21, 1961 - April 15, 1962). Spartak's captain Boris Mayorov with the cup the team won in the championship.15.04.1962#5748957
First USSR Winter Spartakiade in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. Sergei Dvinsky during a ski jump competition.05.03.1962#5744289
First USSR Winter Spartakiade in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. Alpine skier, multiple USSR champion Alexander Filatov during a competition.03.03.1962#5744292
First USSR Winter Spartakiade in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. Yevgeniya Sidorova (Kabina), one of the strongest alpine skiers in the country (first Olympic winner in the history of Soviet alpine skiing), during a competition.03.03.1962#5744290
A meeting for leaders of the world speed skating championship. 1962 world champion in men's speed skating Viktor Kosichkin gives a speech.22.02.1962#5835102
The World Skiing Championship (February 18-27, 196) in Zakopane, Poland. Soviet skier, multiple national and world champion Alevtina Kolchina.18.02.1962#5744283
Locals greet Hero of the Soviet Union, Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin as he visits Liberia.10.02.1962#5744114
An artistic gymnastics competition. Gymnast Polina Astakhova performing on a balance beam.01.10.1961#5742681
Yachtsman Timir Pinegin, winner of a competition in the Star class, competes in a race.25.08.1961#5832642
CSKA's Armenak Alachachyan during the final match between CSKA (Moscow) and SKA (Riga) at the European Champions Cup.22.07.1961#5741931
Tampere, Finland. Hero of the Soviet Union and Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR Yury Gagarin visits a house where Vladimir Lenin lived during his stay in Finland.30.06.1961#5745279
A friendly volleyball match between the women's teams of the Soviet Union and Japan. Soviet player Militiya Yeremeyeva (No. 7) attacks.01.04.1961#5835099
Soviet skier Radya Yeroshina (1930-2012), a silver medalist of the 1956 Winter Olympics.20.11.1960#5920895
The Bashkir ASSR. Photo: Soviet athlete, coach, Master of Sport / Biathlon (1958), 1959 world biathlon champion Dmitry Sokolov (1924-2009).02.11.1960#5920894
Yury Vlasov, Soviet weightlifter, Merited Master of Sports of the Soviet Union, world and European champion.20.06.1960#5794540
Cycling championship of the USSR. Soviet sprinter cyclist Rostislav Veargashkin competes at the Tula cycle track.10.06.1960#5632521
Ricardas Tamulis, a Soviet boxer of Luthuanian descent, member of the USSR national team in the welterwight category.10.05.1960#5625784
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Olympian Larisa Latynina with USSR gymnastics team head coach Alexander Semyonovich Mishakov during practice.04.10.1958#5468028
Before the 9th European Aquatics Championship. Athlete Ninel Krutova performs a dive.12.08.1958#5483057
Soviet athlete and Olympic champion Boris Shakhlin performs a pommel horse routine at the 14th World Artistic Gymnastics Championships on July 6-10, 1958.10.07.1958#5491920
Soviet athlete and Olympic champion Yury Titov performs a still rings routine at the 14th World Artistic Gymnastics Championships on July 6-10, 1958.09.07.1958#5491918
The 14th World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. July 6-10, 1958. Soviet athlete, Olympic champion Yury Titov performs exercises on bars.09.07.1958#5491775
Soviet athlete and Olympic champion Pavel Stolbov performs a pommel horse routine at the 14th World Artistic Gymnastics Championships on July 6-10, 1958.07.07.1958#5491919
Ninel Krutova (Bezzabotnova), member of the Soviet national diving team, during a training session before a trip to Hungary to the 9th European Aquatics Championship.20.06.1958#5486248
Track-and-field competitions for the Znamensky Brothers prize at the Lenin Central Stadium. Vera Krepkina (Kalashnikova) won the 100-meter race.07.06.1958#5478994
Soviet boxer Gennady Shatkov, champion of the Games of the XVI Olympiad (Melbourne 1956), at a training session.05.08.1957#5968692
On July 13, 1957, during a usual Leningrad-Helsinki track match on Dynamo stadium a Leningrad resident Yury Stepanov set a new world record in high jump - 2,16 m. Yury Stepanov competes.13.06.1957#2701821
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
Soviet athlete Maria Isakova, three-time world champion in speedskating in 1948-1950.28.05.1950#3323674
Soviet tennis player Nina Teplyakova, USSR Merited Master of Sports, USSR Champion, holder of the Badge of Honor.10.09.1938#6072056
Nikolai Starostin, Soviet footballer, Merited Master of Sports of the USSR, member of the Soviet football team, and the founder of FC Spartak.10.09.1938#6072054
Yevgeny Ogurenkov, Soviet boxer, all-round champion of the USSR and Merited Master of Sports of the USSR.10.09.1938#6072051
