Bodybuilding in the USSR.

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Bodybuilder Victor Abramov.

 

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Bodybuilder Victor Abramov.

 

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On the left at the Bodybuilder is Victor Abramov.

 

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In the center of the photo is bodybuilder Victor Abramov.

 

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USSR. Bodybuilders of Bashkiria.

 

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In the photo is bodybuilder Mikhail Levshonkov (Kostroma). International Bodybuilding Tournament, 1990, spring, Kostroma, weight category up to 80 kg. That's me.

 

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Leonas Pivoriūnas (Vilnius). Prize-winner and winner of the first tournaments in Lithuania in 1966-69. Winner of the first Amber Prize tournament in 1968.

 

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1982. Moscow. "Hammer and Sickle" Stadium. Exhibition performances.

 

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1971. Tallinn. The first tournament in memory of the founder of Soviet bodybuilding, Georgy Tenno. A parade of participants. Pictured is Dubinin, far left, and fourth from the right is Ulo Kurgpõld, then one of the strongest bodybuilders in Estonia.

 

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Sergey Otrokh (Ukrainian SSR). 1991 European Champion, 65 kg category.

 

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Champion of Ryazan 1990 - Dmitry Lechkin.

 

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One of the most beautiful couples of Soviet bodybuilding is Olga and Vlad Kuznetsov from Moscow.

 

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A page from Flex magazine, 1984, about Soviet bodybuilders. Pictured: Arkady Ayu (Est. SSR), Vincas Dubickas (Lithuanian SSR), and Saulius Misevičius (Lithuanian SSR).

 

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Pictured is Ulo Kurgpõld, one of the strongest bodybuilders in Soviet Estonia in the 1970s.

 

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Alexander Ilyin. Voskresensk. 1980.

 

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Athletic Club "Raduga". Pavlovsk, Leningrad Region.