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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Ants Antson, Berta Kolokoltseva, Boris Gulyaev, Boris Shilkov, Boris Stenin, Dmitry Ogloblin, Dmitry Sakunenko, Galina Stepanskaya, Igor Malkov, Igor Zhelezovski, Inga Artamonova, Irina Egorova, Klara Guseva, L sma Kauniste, Lidiya Skoblikova, Lyudmila Titova, Maria Isakova, Natalya Donchenko, Natalya Glebova, Natalya Petrusyova, Nikolay Gulyayev, Nikolay Mamonov, Nikolay Shtelbaums, Nina Statkevich, Oleg Bozhev, Oleg Goncharenko, Pavel Pegov, Rafayel Grach, Rimma Zhukova, Robert Merkulov, Semyon Belits-Geiman, Sergey Fokichev, Sergey Khlebnikov, Sergey Marchuk, Tamara Rylova, Tatyana Averina, Tatyana Sidorova, Vadim Sayutin, Valentina Stenina, Valentin Chaikin, Valery Muratov, Vera Bryndzei, Vera Krasnova, Viktor Kosichkin, Viktor Lyoshkin, Viktor Shasherin, Viktor Varlamov, Vladimir Lobanov, Vladimir Orlov (speed skater), Vladimir Shilykovsky, Yevgeny Kulikov, Yevgeny Romanovich Grishin, Yuri Kondakov, Yuri Mikhaylov, Yuri Sergeev. Excerpt: Semyon Viktorovich Belits-Geiman (born 16 February 1945) is a former Soviet freestyle swimmer. He set a world record in the 800-meter freestyle, and won two Olympic medals. Belits-Geiman is Jewish, and was born in Moscow. He attended the Transport Engineering Institute in Moscow, studied journalism, and worked as a journalist for the magazines Sports Life in Russia and Soviet Sport. Belits-Geiman began swimming at the age of eight. He was affiliated with the Moscow club Dynamo Moskva, and became a member of the Soviet National Swim Team in 1962. Belits-Geiman competed for the Soviet Union in swimming at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, but did not medal. He was part of the Soviet 4x200-meter freestyle relay which finished seventh, and swam in the 400-meter freestyle, finishing eighth. At the 1965 University Games swimming competition, he won the gold medal in the 400-meter freestyle, and three silver medals in the 1,500-meter and relay races. In 1965, his time in the 1,500 meter was the second-fastest in the world (17:01.90). In 1966, he won the gold medal in a special US-USSR competition in Moscow against the three best American freestyle swimmers. That year at the European Championships, he also won the gold medal in the 1,500-meter freestyle (16:58.5) and was part of the gold-medal-winning Soviet team in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay (8:00.2), where he also won a silver medal in the 400-meter freestyle (4:13.2; behind German Frank Wiegand, and ahead of Frenchman Alain Mosconi). In 1966, he was ranked number three in the world in the 1,500-meter freestyle. On 8 March 1966, he set a world record in the 800-meter freestyle, at 8:47.4, in Budapest. That broke the former world record of 8:51.5 by 4.1 seconds, set by Australian Murray Rose in 1962. At the 1967 University Games swimming competition in Tokyo, he won a silver medal in the 1,500-meter freestyle, behind American Mike Burton. He won a silver medal at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City in the 4x100 freestyle team
