Yuri Radonyak (8 October 1935 – 28 March 2013) was a Russian welterweight boxer who competed for the Soviet Army club. In 1958 he placed second at the Soviet championships and won the World Army Championships. Two years later he won the Soviet title and a silver medal at the 1960 Olympics. He retired in 1962 with a record of 197 wins out of 226 bouts and later had a long career as a boxing coach. In 1962–73 he worked at the Soviet Army club in Moscow and in 1972–76 coached the Soviet national team. The 1972 Olympic gold medalist

Vyacheslav Lemeshev Vyacheslav Ivanovich Lemeshev () (April 3, 1952 in Moscow — January 27, 1996) was an Olympic boxer from the USSR. Soviet physiologists, while examining Lemeshev abilities with electronic measuring devices, discovered his extremely ...

was his personal trainee.

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