Galina Teplykova from Moscow in 1936, near Serpukhov.
source: Andrey Spitsyn USSR Sportsbikes
Galina Teplykova from Moscow in 1936, near Serpukhov.
source: Andrey Spitsyn USSR Sportsbikes
I stumbled on this beautiful bike while I was surfing on the Pinterest pages. After I googled Wooler flat four, I got hundreds of hits and photo’s ! I even came accros an Aussie site, which I like to share with you !
Scrutinising racing C-565.
Could that be Nickolay Shumilkin with the curly hair? Of course!
Queen Elizabeth II
M-72
Irena Yanisovna Ozolina was born 31/08/1917 in Petrograd. She passed away 07/06/1983. She lived, worked and is buried in Moscow.
4-times Master of Sports of the USSR.
18-time champion and record holder of the USSR in motorsport including a quadruple in classes 350, 250 and 125 cm3.
The golden age of motocross
Rider: N. Sevostyanov
source: Vadim Suvorov
Мотоспорт СССР и России
(Motorsport of the USSR and Russia)
Valery Pavlovich Chkalov (20/01/1904 – 15/12/1938). Sadly he died at a young age.
He was a Soviet test pilot, brigade commander, Hero of the Soviet Union.
The crew commander of the aircraft that made the first non-stop flight over the North Pole from Moscow to America in 1937.
He was an honoured Motorsport referee and keen motorcyclist.
A year after his death during the testing of a new fighter plane, in December 1939, the first Chkalovsky motocross race took place, named in his honour and memory.