Recovered photos from racing ladies.
From left to right, Unknown, Olimpiada Nikolaevna Zikeeva, Nadezhda Skobel, Irina Fyodorovna-Vladimirova and a (unknown names) row of ladies and added Virve Kiisa, (partner of Endel Kiisa) Is this the same unknown lady on top of the page ? Help wanted !!
Dnepr works
Disaster has struck ! Lost posts in the blog from Januari till now ! I can’t get them back neither as the host 🙁 Have no idea what happend, have to make a better backup plan to avoid something like this in the future ! I apologize !
Black and white photo from the Distinguised Gentlemans Ride 2022, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Finnish GP 1968
Agostini MV Agusta (No. 1) and Kiisa S-565 Vostok-4 (No. 11).
It was…. in 1968 when Vostoks were next seen at international races in Finland with a 500cc “S-565″, which in its design resembled a 350cc model, while it had a more sturdy chassis and 3 valves were put into each cylinder (2 intake, 1 exhaust). Kiisa was leading in the race for the whole lap when Giacomo Agostini took over and Kiisa came off track interrupted.
Eyewitness account: “I was at the Finnish GP in 1968, and saw and heard! the Vostok. It made tremendous noise and was fast. If it had been piloted by a top-notch rider, Ago would have been pressed hard”. – pkr2000dk
sources: USSR Sportsbikes, Ants Kikerpuu, bCozz archives
Vostok four-cylinder developed by the Soviet Union to take on MV Augusta. Test stands showed more horsepower.
See main article: Vostok – an Unsolved Crime
Ilya sends, just to make you happy and have a nice day.
The Holodomor (death by hunger, in Ukrainian) (Ukrainian: Голодомо́р, romanized: Holodomor, IPA: [ɦolodoˈmɔr];[2] derived from морити голодом, moryty holodom, ‘to kill by starvation’)
Awfull story from the past ! Caused when a dictator wanted both to replace Ukraine’s small farms with state-run collectives and punish independence-minded Ukrainians who posed a threat to his totalitarian authority.
KMZ Roadracing sidecar “Strizh” made in limited small numbers. It looks fast and competitive.
