Presentation of TASS prizes to the best athletes of 1979 in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. Soviet weightlifter Yuri Norairovich Vardanyan, who was awarded the prize of the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union as the best athlete of 1979, and TASS special correspondent Yuri Georgievich Khromov (left to right) at the awards ceremony for the best athletes of 1979, named according to a poll of sports commentators of news agencies, which is conducted annually by the sports editorial board of TASS. Vyacheslav Un Da-Sin/TASS