Bodybuilding in the USSR.

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1985 Chelyabinsk Open Championship. D.Voroshnin (Bashkiria). in the center - D. Zolin (Chelyabinsk region), O. Ivanov (Bashkiria). I. Romanov (Chelyabinsk region). From the archive of Dmitry Zolin.

 

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Boris Raev. (USSR).

 

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USSR Cup. 1990. April. Kyiv. Winners of the 70 kg category: V. Aleksandrovich (BSSR, Minsk) - 2nd place, and Grigory Fateev (RSFSR, Omsk) - 1st place. In the background: A. Shlein (Kronstadt), N. Babkin (Voronezh), and Evgeny Dubchak from Moscow.

 

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One of the many athletic clubs in the USSR.

 

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Poster of the 1st official Armenian Championship, held in Yerevan(USSR) in July 1991.

 

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In the center is Boris Dolmatov (Vladivostok), the founder of bodybuilding in Primorye (USSR).

 

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Sergey Leshchenko. Pyatigorsk.

 

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USSR.1991

 

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Kovrigin Albert, Lechkin Dmitry. Ryazan.

 

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Stanislav Medvedev. Ivanovo. 1960s. Published in the magazine "Sports Life of Russia."
Biceps: 47 cm. Bench press (with half bridge): 207.5 kg. Squats: 200 kg x 10 reps.

 

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Oleg Kopylov. Lipetsk. Lipetsk Region Champion, national junior championship medalist, 4th place junior in the over 90 kg category at the Amber Prize tournament in Klaipeda in 1989. Photo from 1991. Photo from a Lipetsk newspaper. Caption: Lipetsk Schwarzenegger.

 

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In one of the athletic clubs of the USSR.

 

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"Athletic Gymnastics" badge. USSR

 

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1991, Moscow. USSR State Sports Committee. Meeting with Ben Weider. The photo features many famous figures of Soviet bodybuilding. From the archive of Evgeny Koltun.

 

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1991. USA. Olympia. With Larry Scott. V. Ponomarev, Larry Scott, Evgeniy Koltun, Vladimir Dubinin. From the archive of Evgeniy Koltun.

ия. С Лэрри Скоттом.В.Пономарёв, Ларри Скотт, Евгений Колтун, Владимир Дубинин/Из архива Евгения Колтуна.

 

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Krasnodar. 1988

 

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Sergey Pushkarev. (Olenegorsk, Murmansk region.) Multiple champion of the Murmansk region, bronze medalist of the 1989 "South of Russia" tournament in Astrakhan, 4th place in the "Lyuber-90" tournament, 4th place in the RSFSR Cup-90 in Smolensk.

 

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From the archive of Yevgeny Koltun. 1991. July. Canada. Ottawa. Delegation of the FSB of the USSR. Pictured is Vyacheslav Maslov, far left. Standing in the center background is Alexander Vishnevsky.