Alexey Voyevoda is a Russian bobsledder and a professional arm wrestler, Honored Master of Sports in armwrestling (2004) and Bobsleigh (2006). Also he is a candidate for master of sports in judo. By the way, Alexey is a vegetarian.
Voyevoda won silver in the four-man bobsleigh event with Filipp Egorov, Alexei Seliverstov, and Alexandre Zoubkov at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Later he won a bronze medal in the two-man event at the 2008 FIBT World Championships in Altenberg, Germany. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Voyevoda won a bronze medal in the two-man event and became World Champion in 2011 in the two-man event.
The boy was born on May 9, 1980 in Sochi. At the age of 6 Alexey was engaged in karate. In his childhood Voyevoda spent summer holidays in the Ukraine in the village Kalinovitsa at grandpa’s house. There he helped on the farm.
Voyevoda graduated from the Sochi State University of Tourism and Recreation. His dream was to enter the Higher Police School in Rostov-on-Don (it was one of the most prestigious universities), but … he didn’t pass Physical Education exam.
He worked for a security firm and was a cash collector.
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Alexander Povetkin was born on September 2, 1979 in Kursk.
He is a Russian professional boxer, Honored master of sports of Russia. The boxer has earned the title of Champion of Russia, Europe, Asia and the World. Also he became the Olympic champion. From 2011 to 2013 he was a regular WBA heavyweight champion. In 2014 Alexander won the WBC Silver heavyweight title. And in 2017 he won the titles of WBO International and WBA Continental.
Since 2012 Povetkin is coached by former super lightweight world champion Kostya Tszyu.
In 1997 Alexander became a winner of the Kickboxing World Junior championship.
You know, Povetkin won his first major boxing tournament at the Russian Championships in 2000 at the age of 21.
He was the winner of the Good Will Games in Brisbane, Australia in 2001; the 34th European Championship in 2002. Besides, he won the XII World Championship held in Thailand in 2003 and the 35th European Championship in 2004. Moreover, he became 2004 Summer Olympics champion in Athens, Greece.
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Irina Sinitsyna (March 28, 1977 – October 1, 2012) was a World and European skydiving champion, one of the best Russian skydivers. She was awarded medals 100 years of the Air Force and For strengthening military cooperation.
Her sport achievements begin with the words first, only and multiple.
Under direction of Irina, women’s team Pearls of Russia built in the sky unimaginable shapes, collecting all the possible award, setting new world records.
This strong and nice woman’s proved to the world that Russian sky divers are one of the best athletes in the world.
Irina, the future champion of all possible championships and competitions, was interested in skydiving since her childhood. The schoolgirl was intrigued by the exploits of a parachutist from the book The Fourth Height and began to jump with a parachute.
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Christian Noboa and his Russian wife
You know, Christian met his wife, Olga Romanova, in the capital of Tatarstan, where he played for FC Rubin Kazan.
When they met, they could communicate with their fingers only. And now he is fluent in Russian, and she is fluent in Spanish. At first their meetings were like pantomime games.
“My wife says that I shouldn’t whistle – otherwise I’ll have no money. I do not understand this. In Ecuador you can whistle when you want. I do not know why, but earlier Russian girls did not travel abroad. Now they are everywhere. You know, there are a lot of Russian girls. Cristiano Ronaldo’s girlfriend is Russian. My wife is Russian. Jean Narde is married to a Russian girl. In general, the most beautiful girls in the world are Russian girls. My happiest day in Russia is my son’s birthday.”
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The Russian Beach Soccer team won FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2013 in Tahiti.
In 2011 Russian Beach Soccer team became World Champion for the first time, they had never even placed in the top four before.
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Fedor Emelianenko is a four-time MMA world champion, three-time combat sambo world champion. He is number one in the world fighters ranking and winner of many prestigious awards in the field of martial arts. By the way, he is Honored Master of Sports of Russia in combat sambo and master of sports of international class in judo.
Thanks to the incredible fight statistics (30 wins in 31 fights) Fedor was nicknamed The Last Emperor. No one has ever been able to knocked Fedor out.

The boy was born on September 28, 1976 in the Soviet Union into the family of a welder and a teacher. Fedor has elder sister Marina (born in 1974) and two younger brothers – Alexander (born in 1981) and Ivan (born in 1988). Alexander and Ivan are also fighters.
At the age of 10 Fedor was engaged in sambo and judo. And even then he wasn’t like his peers. Fedor worked very hard and spent the nights at the gym many times. The boy took his brother Alexander with him, because the parents were at work. As a result, Alexander became a professional fighter too.
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Pavel Pogrebnyak and his wife Maria took part in a TV show called Meet the Russians, which aired on Fox Sky and Virgin TV channels. The project shows wealthy Russians living in London.
According to the press reports, Ukrainian singer Kamaliya and her husband, fashion photographer Dmitry Oskin and former model Julia Zaporozhenko were also involved in the project.
Producers of the reality show describe the Pogrebnyaks as a real Russian family. “Pavel is the perfect husband. He is ready to go out with his wife anywhere: red carpet, exclusive nightclubs or Cannes. Though, he would rather spend time at home with the children. Pavel and Maria live in a penthouse in Chelsea. Their parents often visit them to help with the children”.
Pavel met his wife in his school years. She is three years younger than Pogrebnyak. At first they were just friends and only when Masha graduated from school they began dating.
Now Maria is a mother of three sons. She is a model as well as clothes, jewelry and shoe designer.
According to the creators of the show, Maria is no more, no less Russian Victoria Beckham.
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