Soviet world champions and winners of the Olympic Games (1948-1968)

Perron station in Moscow.

Muscovites with flags and flowers meet world champion Maria Isakov.

Isakov with flowers, leads a child's hand.

Turku.

World Cup speed skating.

Fragments competition skater Maria Isakov.

Big gold medal.

Helsinki, 1952. XV Summer Olympics.

Speech Soviet thrower Bagryantseva Elizabeth, Nina Dumbadze Nina Ponomareva.

Winners on the podium.

Melbourne, 1956. XVI Summer Olympics.

Vladimir Kuts on the treadmill.

Wins at distances of 10 000 and 5000 meters.

Rome, 1960. XVII Olympic Games.

Goes cycling.

Cyclists Livio Trap (Italy) and Victor Kapitonov (USSR).

Innsbruck, 1964. IX Winter Olympic Games.

Skater Lydia Skoblikov wins four distances.

Skoblikova photographed, she signs autographs outside of Innsbruck.

Speakers skaters Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov.

Tokyo, 1964. XVIII Summer Olympics.

Weightlifters Leonid Zhabotinsky and Yuri Vlasov ride bicycles.

Raise the bar.

Jabotinsky - winner.

Boxer Valery Popenchenko.

Galina Prozumenshchikova swimmer.

Grenoble, 1968. X Olympic Winter Games.

Biathlete Victor Mamatov skiing, shooting a rifle.

Victor Mamatov answers questions from a reporter (synchronously).

Mamatov works in a scientific laboratory.

Mamatov house with a rifle next to a small son with a gun.

Digest: Soviet athletes in training.

Valery Brumel athlete and his coach Vladimir Mikhailovich Diachkov.

Moscow, Luzhniki, 1963. Valery Brumel sets a world record in the high jump (2.28 meters).

Embraces coach.

The first championship of the USSR ice hockey, December 1946 - January 1947.

Vienna, 1967. IIHF World Championship.

Match between the USSR and Canada.

Friendly Mayorov - Starshinova winning goal.

Soviet hockey players with the cup.

Chess player Mikhail Botvinnik playing with the children at the Palace of Pioneers.

Tournaments between Botvinnik and G. Kmokom.

Competition between Botvinnik and Max Euwe.

Botvinnik put on laurel.

Botvinnik and V. Smyslov, Tal.

Chess tournament between Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky.

London, October 23, 1963, "match of the century." Game World team against England.

Goalkeeper Lev Yashin.