Nikolay Stankevich was born in Uderevka, Voronezh Governorate, and in 1834 graduated from the Moscow State University, where he was influenced by Professor Mikhail Kachenovsky and followers of the so-called "skeptical school" in…
The Soviet Figure Skating Championships (Russian: Чемпионат СССР по фигурному катанию) were an annual figure skating competition to crown the national champions of the Soviet Union.
Stanislav Alekseyevich Zhuk (Russian: Станислав Алексеевич Жук, listen; 25 January 1935 – 1 November 1998) was a pair skater who represented the Soviet Union.
Irina Konstantinovna Rodnina (Russian: Ирина Константиновна Роднина, IPA: [ɪˈrʲinə kənstɐnˈtʲinəvnə rədʲnʲɪˈna]; born 12 September 1949) is a Russian politician and retired figure skater, who is the only pair skater to win 10 successive…
An ordinary working class boy, like all his peers, he played football day and night and dreamed of being a striker. But no matter which team he played for - in the yard, at the factory, or in the arm…