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Konstantin Vorobyov (born 30 October 1930) is a Soviet former marathon runner. He was born in Kirov Oblast. In 1960 he became Soviet champion and finished fourth at the 1960 Summer Olympics with his personal best of 2:19:10 h.
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The Russian men's national ice hockey team is the national men's ice hockey team of Russia, overseen by the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia. As of 2021, they were rated third in the IIHF World Ranking. The team has competed internationally from 1992 until a 2022 ban, and is recognized by the IIHF as the successor to the Soviet Union team and CIS team. Russia has been one of the most successful national ice hockey teams in the world and a member of the so-called "Big Six," the unofficial group of the six strongest men's ice hockey nations, along with Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden, and the United States. The European nations of the Big Six participate in the Euro Hockey Tour, which Russia won nine times since 2005. Since September 2021, the head coach is Alexei Zhamnov, who took over from Valeri Bragin.
Arkady Nikitich Vorobyov was a Soviet and Russian weightlifter, weightlifting coach, scientist and writer. He competed at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics and won one bronze and two gold medals. Between 1950 and 1960 he set 16 official world records. Later for many years he led the national team and the Soviet weightlifting program. In 1995 he was inducted into the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame.
David Adamovich Rigert is a retired Soviet weightlifter and weightlifting coach of Austrian ancestry. During his career he set 65 ratified world records and won an Olympic gold medal in 1976 and six world titles. In 1999 he was inducted to the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame.
Vorobyov, Vorobiev, Vorobyev and Vorobyova is a common Russian surname derived from the Russian word воробей.
Sergei Konstantinovich Popov was a Russian marathon runner. He won a gold medal at the 1958 European Championships setting a new world record at 2:15:17; this record stood for more than two years and remained the Soviet national record until 1970. He also set a world record in Moscow, on June 15, 1958, for 30 kilometers, running 1:32:58.8. Popov won the Soviet marathon title in 1957, when he ran the world's fastest marathon of the year in 2:19:50 in Moscow, 1958 and 1959, and placed second in 1962 and third in 1963. In 1959, he set the course record at the Košice Peace Marathon, the third year in a row he ran the world's fastest time. He finished fifth at the 1960 Summer Olympics when the winner, Ethiopia's Abebe Bikila, broke Popov's world record by less than a second.
Ivan Filin was a marathon runner from the Soviet Union, who won the silver medal at the European Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, behind compatriot Sergei Popov. He is a two-time winner of the Soviet national marathon title (1955–1956), and won the 1957 edition of the Košice Peace Marathon. He was born in Kimovsk, Tula Oblast.
Aleksandr Pavlovich Kurynov was a Soviet and Russian weightlifter. He won a gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics and three world titles in 1961–1963. He also set 15 world records between 1958 and 1964: two in the press, four in the snatch, four in the clean and jerk, and five in the total.
Konstantin Stanislavovich Krizhevsky was a Russian football defender. He was born in Odintsovo, Russia. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1952 Olympics, and the 1958 FIFA World Cup.
Alexey Vladimirovich Vorobyov is a Russian singer and actor who performs both in Russian and English. For international purposes Vorobyov is also credited as Alex Sparrow, a translation of his Russian name. He is best known for appearing on the Russian version of The X Factor at the age of 17 in 2005. In 2006 Vorobyov was contracted by Universal Music Russia, and in December 2007 was appointed as a goodwill ambassador for Y-PEER, a youth-based initiative of the United Nations Population Fund. Vorobyov represented the Russian Federation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Germany.
Konstantin Vyrupayev was a Soviet wrestler and Olympic Champion.
Treasure Island is a 1982 Soviet children's adventure film based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel. Directed by Vladimir Vorobyov, it stars Fyodor Stukov and Oleg Borisov.
Alex Breckenridge is a former American marathon runner.
Konstantin Dmitrievich Vorobyov was a Soviet writer, a War hero and a major exponent of the lieutenant prose movement in the Soviet war literature. Vorobyov, who was born in the Kursk region, Soviet Russia but spent most of his life in Vilnius, Lithuania, wrote 10 short novels and 30 short stories, many of which were either unpublished in his lifetime or suffered greatly from massive censorial cuts. According to the poet, critic and literature historian Dmitry Bykov, Vorobyov was "the most American of all Russian writers, a strange mix of Hemingway and Capote".
The following lists events that happened during 1988 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Konstantin Nikolayevich Grachev is a retired Russian sprinter. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics and 1960 Summer Olympics in the 400 m and 4 × 400 m events, but failed to reach the finals. During his career Grachev won seven Soviet titles and one European title in the 400 m. After retiring from competitions he moved to Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.
Jeffrey Lynn Julian is a former New Zealand marathon runner.
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Nikolay Rumyantsev is a Soviet former long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Aleksey Konov is a Soviet middle-distance runner. He competed in the men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
