The Tournament of Hope. World Junior Weightlifting Championships in Moscow. Left: Leonid Zhabotinsky, Soviet weightlifter in super heavy weight, Merited Master of Sports, presents an award to 16-year-old weightlifter and winner of the competition.30.05.1990#8454305
Azerbaijan SSR. Young chess players, students of the Gakh Chess School, analyze chess games on the computer: sitting, right: candidate master, 14-year-old Firuza Velikhanli, USSR champion in chess among girls, winner of the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR (1986) Aynur Sofiyeva, standing in the center, and 15-year-old Volodya Akopyan. All of them are students of Mikhail Botvinnik's famous chess school.01.10.1986#8959480
Aynur Sofiyeva, USSR chess champion among girls, winner of the Spartakiad of the USSR Peoples in 1986, high school student, studies chess literature during theoretical and practical preparation for tournaments. Gakhi settlement, Azerbaijani SSR.01.10.1986#8959466
Center: USSR chess champion among girls, winner of the 1986 USSR Peoples' Spartakiad, high school student Aynur Sofiyeva plays chess with performers of the amateur group of the theater studio of the village of Gakhi, Azerbaijan SSR.01.10.1986#8959440
1986 Goodwill Games (July 5-20, 1986). Weightlifting. Winner and medalists in the category over 110 kg: Leonid Taranenko (USSR, first prize), Alexander Gunyashev (USSR, second prize), Robert Skolimowski (Polish People's Republic, third prize), right. Izmailovo Sports Palace.21.07.1986#5780951
The 12th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow, July 27 - August 3, 1985. Left: Lev Psakhis, Soviet grandmaster, RSFSR champion, two-time USSR champion, during a chess game on 1,000 boards. CSKA Football and Track and Field Stadium.29.07.1985#8976375
Viktor Makhorin (MAI), a USSR national handball team member, master of sport of international class, repeated USSR champion and prize winner, European Champions' Cup winner, 1997 Cup of the Cups winner and 1979 World Cup winner.01.07.1980#840348
Marat Niyazov, silver medalist of the 1960 Olympic Games (Rome), multiple shooting sports world champion.21.06.1966#5922961
Moscow international table tennis tournament. Soviet table tennis player Anatoly Amelin, multiple USSR champion, during the game.20.02.1966#6316386
Alexei Nikanchikov, member of the USSR national fencing team, during a training session.08.02.1966#6327029
Larisa Latynina, Olympic champion in artistic gymnastics and Merited Master of Sports (maiden name: Diriy, born in 1934 ) (left) with her student Tatyana Palamarchuk.26.11.1964#683508
Soviet high jumper Valery Brumel, Merited Master of Sport of the USSR, during a training session.01.09.1963#5993121
Soviet high jumper Valery Brumel, Merited Master of Sport of the USSR, during a training session.01.09.1963#5993120
Viktor Kosichkin (born 1938), 1961 absolute USSR champion in speed skating, Merited Master of Sports, during a race.13.12.1962#674354
Viktor Kosichkin (born 1938), 1961 absolute USSR champion in speed skating, Merited Master of Sports, during a race.13.12.1962#674352
Viktor Ivanovich Kosichkin (born 1938), USSR all-round champion in short-track speed skating in 1961, Honoured Master of Sports, winner in 10,000 m round during the competition in man short-track speed skating for individual USSR and RSFSR championship in Gorky, is standing on the pedestal with a special prize, instituted by newspaper "Izvestia".01.02.1962#674349
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
Track and field athlete Vasili Kuznetsov (1932-2001) putting the shot. The Central Lenin Stadium (currently the Luzhniki Olympic Complex).16.08.1959#5473449
World champion in running target rifle shooting Iogann Ivanovich Nikitin (1929-1990).03.09.1958#5483646
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
