International Gymnastics 1956

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Kiev, Ukraine, Soviet Union (USSR).

International gymnastics competition with contestants from USSR, Bulgaria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia in progress. LV. The hall with gymnast Victor Chukarin of the USSR on the parallel bars. LV. Massed crowd. GV. Zdenek Ruzhichka of Czechoslovakia doing...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
31702
Sort Number:
56/031
Time in/Out:
01:48:03:00 / 01:49:06:00
Canister:
56/31
Film ID:
573.28
Issue Date:
16/04/1956

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