Motorsport Award certificate of the legendary Vladimir Ivanovich Karneev. August 14, 1939. Vladimir Karneev will become the Absolute Champion of the USSR in Motocross in 1945. From his personal archives.
The legendary Father of the USSR speedway – Vladimir Ivanovich Karneev. Remember this name. You will find more elsewhere in these pages.
source: Inga Frolova,
MT-750 CK (Sports Cross)
Valery Chkalov, chief judge of the 1937 USSR motorsport championship.
From right to left: Ivanenko and Zhdanov (Moscow), A. Krasovsky (Minsk).
September 1937.
41st kilometer of Zhitomir highway, Kiev, Ukrainian SSR.
Photographer Dovgyallo.
source: Andrey Spitsyn
Confirmation by Andrey Myatiev:
Championship of the USSR in 1937. The first on the right (gestures) is the Moscow racer Ivanenko. Next to him is also a Muscovite Zhdanov.
P.S. The author of the photo is photographer Dovgyallo.
This guy is pretty amazing. Link is to his YouTube Channel. Interesting how he made a 4-cylinder Dnepr. Excuse the ads, but this is sort of, riveting!
ШК-2″ Днепр”
ShK-2 “Dnepr” designed by Alexander and Fyodor Seropov. Design Bureau of sports KMZ. 1974-1975
source: Fedor Seropov via Сергей Пашацкий
Crew Mikhail Tyulenev / Leonid Kursov (IMZ) Class 650 cm3. Irbit Sverdlovsk Oblast 1980s.
Photo by Vasily Shcheylovd.
Source: Andrey Spitsyn
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Early sports cars in the USSR were powered by motorcycle engines. 500cc.
You will find more elsewhere in these pages.
A beautiful photo, with a very supportive crowd of onlookers, with a sidecar crew anticipating the race ahead. Wonderful.