Inga was a real person. What she did in sports will never cease to excite the minds of fans and sports scientists. This will remain like in a fairy tale. Inga Artamonova accomplished a feat: a girl who suffered from tuberculosis for seven years became a master of sports in rowing, a four-time world champion in speed skating, exceeded more than ten world records, and won twenty-seven times at individual distances of the national championships. But will this dry arithmetic speak eloquently about Inga? Of course not.

ARTAMONOVA (VORONINA) Inga Grigorievna was born in 1936 in Moscow. Soviet athlete (Skating), Honored Master of Sports. USSR and world champion.

1957 World Championship. Finland. All participants in the competition finished the competition, took off their skates, and became just spectators. And Artamonova had to cover one more distance - a lap of honor with a laurel wreath.

This circle is one of the most unforgettable impressions in life. The fifth distance is beautiful and pleasant. The world champion is the only one of all the athletes who competes not in four, but in five distances. And they will find out who exactly is performing at this fifth distance at the very last minute.

Inga rolled slowly around the stadium. From above, from the snowy stands, flowers flew to her feet. The Finns rejoiced and shouted Russian word: "Great!"

Inga ran this circle, and tears of happiness, transparent, sparkling in the rays of the spotlights, rolled down her cheeks.

The spectators demanded to ride around the stadium again and again.

But before she had time to take even a few steps, she noticed that the stands began to lower, and the fans were sliding down the snow rollers. They rushed to the champion - thousands of people, men, women, children...

I had to stop. At that same second, hundreds of hands reached out to Inga - and before she had time to think of anything, she found herself in weightlessness, thrown up by these hands. The laurel wreath fell down. They picked him up and started pumping him too. And a champion and a wreath!

She doesn’t remember how she was taken out of the skating rink. About half an hour later there was a knock on the door. A tall man came in and, burring, said in Russian:

We were a little happy. Your wreath has been dismantled for souvenirs. Now thousands of people will remember your victory for the rest of their lives... Sorry...

With these words, he placed a wreath on the cot. Or rather, what remains of the wreath is a broom with seven leaves.

Inga never had to hold that wreath from noble laurel. Rimma Zhukova reassured the champion:

Don't worry: you will have more than one such trophy. Trust me.

Artamonova believed...

She won four laurel wreaths. I dare say that none of the Soviet speed skaters will receive that much in the 20th century. There could have been more crowns - and therefore victories - but at twenty-one - in her prime - tuberculosis, which crept up on the world champion, took her out of the fight. Years passed. Best years. Inga was already written off, seeing no reason for success. Nobody believed in her. And only she, proud and unyielding, forgot about illnesses and troubles and confidently worked for the future. And in 1962, at Medeo, she won five gold medals as national champion - at all distances and in the all-around, and set four world records. Moreover, she beat them on a high-mountain skating rink, which was especially difficult for her to run on - her diseased lungs affected her. And yet Inga accomplished her feat - many of her world records lasted five to seven years! But she didn't know about it. She was no longer alive...

Without losing a single start in 1962, Inga Artamonova became the world champion for the third time. She seemed to have returned to athletic youth and for a while forgot about the illness. Inga dreamed of performing at the 64 Olympics in Innsbruck, but... leap years have always been unlucky for the “ice queen”. In 1964, an acute attack of an ulcer put Inga out of action. She spent a month and a half at the height of the season in the hospital. Doctors advised Inga to stop playing sports, but if she had succumbed to persuasion, she would have betrayed herself - she would have stopped being Inga! And Artamonova continued to perform.

The leap year became a test for her. Let it be cruel, offensive, but a test of the strength of life affirmation. A year later, in 1965, she again had no equal on the planet. It seemed that she was going to the Finnish city of Oulu to formally secure the right to be called the strongest and fastest at the world championship. For the fourth time!

On the day our team arrived in Oulu, it was twenty degrees below zero. Girls wrapped in down scarves and fur hats, from the hotel the first thing we did was run to the skating rink. But the entrance to the stadium was closed. What to do? Inga Artamonova remembered her mischievous childhood on Petrovka and invited her young friends... to climb over the fence. They agreed.

The ice was like glass. The skates didn't cling to him. Inga thought that her skates were simply stupid, leaned over to check the blades and... at that time she crashed into a bench at full speed. How she didn't break her tibia remains a mystery.

Her friends helped her get to the Arina Hotel. I had to spend two days before the start in bed. So you can “formally secure the right to be called the fastest”!

Newspapers different countries, making assumptions before the championship, unanimously gave Artamonova the place of the absolute winner. One of the Finnish journalists said that their editorial office already had an essay about Inga with the title “Four Times Undefeated,” which described future competitions in detail. Everything was told, down to the smallest details. More precisely, it was predicted, fantasized. Only the results were not recorded.

The lot was clearly not in Inga’s favor - at all four distances she had to run in the first pair, pave the way for the others, give them the graphs.

She put all her strength into the first distance - she decided to immediately stun her rivals.

It's hard to convey how she felt after her first victory. "Joy? Undoubtedly. But also complacency. She fell for the bait, decided that victory was already guaranteed.

And she immediately paid for this complacency with defeat in the one-and-a-half race - a distance that was always considered hers, where she set one of her best world records. Artamonova lost to Valya Stenina. This, however, was not very confusing. Valya wasn’t afraid to lose; she’s a friend on the national team. But the fact that the Dutchwoman Steen Kaiser and the Korean Pil Hwa Han were ahead was alarming.

And although Artamonova remained in first place by the sum of two distances, the anxious state did not leave her all night. She was not afraid, she was simply vigilant... This heightened feeling especially helped her on Sunday - the second and decisive day of the championship.

Again she opened the races. This time, a twenty-six-year-old typist from the Dutch city of Delph Steen Kaiser started alongside her. This girl had managed to beat Inga the day before and was now again trying to get ahead of the famous Muscovite in the race.

Inga got the inside track. This means that she could go against the wind for two turns. And both of these turns are small. The fight lasted only the first half-circle. And then Inga ran away from the “flying Dutchwoman” thirty meters...

Not only the residence of the laurel wreath - Moscow or Sverdlovsk - depended on how Valentina Stenina performed at the thousand meters. If she was lucky, Stenina also became a three-time world champion, like Inga. And Artamonova, with a happy coincidence of circumstances, would actually leave Finland “four times undefeated.”

Stenina ran quickly, but at the finish the stopwatch recorded a result almost two seconds weaker than Inga’s. At the last distance, Artamonova flew as if on wings; she had no doubt of success.

And then there was the highest step of the podium. Happy smile. Her, Ingina, smile. The same one for which she was loved at all skating rinks on the planet.

That evening I called the Arina Hotel: “How are you feeling? What are you thinking about? After all, everything important has already happened...”

Inga did not hide her joy:

It's finished! I became the absolute world champion for the fourth time. Not a single athlete after the war, when skates became truly in mass form sports, I was unable to achieve what fell to my lot.

Write down, I told her, write down everything you feel, what you think, so that your personal impressions are not erased by newspaper assessments, do not replace each other.

In Moscow, she showed me pieces of paper written on a dark northern night in Arina: “I can’t believe it! I run into the locker room, boys surround me, asking for badges and autographs. “Well, do you understand that you have become the strongest again?” - friends ask. Oh, girls, I'm so glad. And for all of us. Again with victory on native land! Happy victory!

The northern lights winked sadly at me, flashing over the icy northern sea. I have good mood- I received many telegrams from people I know and don’t know, but are dear to me.

I can't find any place for happiness. I wander around the room, dreaming of the dawn that will flow through the hotel window, slide across the pillow, wake me up to say:

“This peak is not the last, Inga! The climb is not over - there is more to come whole life!»

But this peak turned out to be the last. Inga died tragically before she turned 30 (she was killed by her husband Gennady Voronin).

I think about her again and again, I remember her...

She was full of charm and human tenderness. To say about her what she was a good man- means not to say anything. Inga was a real person. What she did in sports will never cease to excite the minds of fans and sports scientists. This will remain like in a fairy tale. Inga Artamonova accomplished a feat: a girl who suffered from tuberculosis for seven years became a master of sports in rowing, a four-time world champion in speed skating, exceeded more than ten world records, and won twenty-seven times at individual distances of the national championships. But will this dry arithmetic speak eloquently about Inga? Of course not.

Inga was a cheerful and witty conversationalist. Her knowledge of literature and various areas the cultures were truly remarkable. She was the unofficial champion of knitting champions. In 1965, she won a dance prize in Kirov and was known as a skilled cook. Inga was an excellent drawer - as a child she even dreamed of being an architect or fashion designer, she owned English language... And now - a tragic death.

She did not die long - just a few minutes. And, feeling that she was dying, Inga could not accept that she would not see last time gray and watery Moscow sky, will not say goodbye to winter. She ran up the stairs. But I didn't have time...

And when thousands of Muscovites saw off their champion on her last journey, the first frosts hit Moscow. Winter has come to say goodbye to Inga...

And it snowed, snowed, snowed...

ARTAMONOVA (VORONINA) Inga Grigorievna was born in 1936 in Moscow. Soviet athlete (Skating), Honored Master of Sports. USSR and world champion.

1957 World Championship. Finland. All participants in the competition finished the competition, took off their skates, and became just spectators. And Artamonova had to cover one more distance - a lap of honor with a laurel wreath.

This circle is one of the most unforgettable experiences in life. The fifth distance is beautiful and pleasant. The world champion is the only one of all the athletes who competes not in four, but in five distances. And they will find out who exactly is competing in this fifth distance at the very last minute.

Inga rolled slowly around the stadium. From above, from the snowy stands, flowers flew to her feet. The Finns rejoiced and shouted the Russian word: “Wow!”

Inga ran this circle, and tears of happiness, transparent, sparkling in the rays of the spotlights, rolled down her cheeks.

The spectators demanded to ride around the stadium again and again.

But before she had time to take even a few steps, she noticed that the stands began to lower, and the fans were sliding down the snow rollers. They rushed to the champion - thousands of people, men, women, children...

I had to stop. At that same second, hundreds of hands reached out to Inga - and before she had time to think of anything, she found herself in weightlessness, thrown up by these hands. The laurel wreath fell down. They picked him up and started pumping him too. And a champion and a wreath!

Best of the day

She doesn’t remember how she was taken out of the skating rink. About half an hour later there was a knock on the door. A tall man came in and, burring, said in Russian:

We were a little happy. Your wreath has been dismantled for souvenirs. Now thousands of people will remember your victory for the rest of their lives... Sorry...

With these words, he placed a wreath on the cot. Or rather, what remains of the wreath is a broom with seven leaves.

Inga never had to hold that wreath of noble laurel in her hands. Rimma Zhukova reassured the champion:

Don't worry: you will have more than one such trophy. Trust me.

Artamonova believed...

She won four laurel wreaths. I dare say that none of the Soviet speed skaters will receive that much in the 20th century. There could have been more crowns - and therefore victories - but at twenty-one - in her prime - tuberculosis, which crept up on the world champion, took her out of the fight. Years passed. The best years. Inga was already written off, seeing no reason for success. Nobody believed in her. And only she, proud and unyielding, forgot about illnesses and troubles and confidently worked for the future. And in 1962, at Medeo, she won five gold medals as national champion - at all distances and in the all-around, and set four world records. Moreover, she beat them on a high-mountain skating rink, which was especially difficult for her to run on - her diseased lungs affected her. And yet Inga accomplished her feat - many of her world records lasted five to seven years! But she didn't know about it. She was no longer alive...

Without losing a single start in 1962, Inga Artamonova became the world champion for the third time. It was as if she returned to her athletic youth and forgot about the illness for a while. Inga dreamed of performing at the 1964 Olympics in Innsbruck, but... leap years have always been unlucky for the “ice queen”. In 1964, an acute attack of an ulcer put Inga out of action. She spent a month and a half at the height of the season in the hospital. Doctors advised Inga to stop playing sports, but if she had succumbed to persuasion, she would have betrayed herself - she would have stopped being Inga! And Artamonova continued to perform.

The leap year became a test for her. Let it be cruel, offensive, but a test of the strength of life affirmation. A year later, in 1965, she again had no equal on the planet. It seemed that she was going to the Finnish city of Oulu to formally secure the right to be called the strongest and fastest at the world championship. For the fourth time!

On the day our team arrived in Oulu it was twenty degrees below zero. The girls, wrapped in down scarves and fur hats, first ran from the hotel to the skating rink. But the entrance to the stadium was closed. What to do? Inga Artamonova remembered her mischievous childhood on Petrovka and invited her young friends... to climb over the fence. They agreed.

The ice was like glass. The skates didn't cling to him. Inga thought that her skates were simply stupid, leaned over to check the blades and... at that time she crashed into a bench at full speed. How she didn't break her tibia remains a mystery.

Her friends helped her get to the Arina Hotel. I had to spend two days before the start in bed. So you can “formally secure the right to be called the fastest”!

Newspapers from different countries, making assumptions before the championship, unanimously gave Artamonova the place of the absolute winner. One of the Finnish journalists said that their editorial office already had an essay about Inga with the title “Four Times Undefeated,” which described future competitions in detail. Everything was told, down to the smallest details. More precisely, it was predicted, fantasized. Only the results were not recorded.

The lot was clearly not in Inga’s favor - at all four distances she had to run in the first pair, pave the way for the others, give them the graphs.

She put all her strength into the first distance - she decided to immediately stun her rivals.

It's hard to convey how she felt after her first victory. "Joy? Undoubtedly. But also complacency. She fell for the bait, decided that victory was already guaranteed.

And she immediately paid for this complacency with defeat in the one-and-a-half race - a distance that was always considered hers, where she set one of her best world records. Artamonova lost to Valya Stenina. This, however, was not very confusing. Valya wasn’t afraid to lose; she’s a friend on the national team. But the fact that the Dutchwoman Steen Kaiser and the Korean Pil Hwa Han were ahead was alarming.

And although Artamonova remained in first place by the sum of two distances, the anxious state did not leave her all night. She was not afraid, she was simply vigilant... This heightened feeling especially helped her on Sunday - the second and decisive day of the championship.

Again she opened the races. This time, a twenty-six-year-old typist from the Dutch city of Delph Steen Kaiser started alongside her. This girl had managed to beat Inga the day before and was now again trying to get ahead of the famous Muscovite in the race.

Inga got the inside track. This means that she could go against the wind for two turns. And both of these turns are small. The fight lasted only the first half-circle. And then Inga ran away from the “flying Dutchwoman” thirty meters...

Not only the residence of the laurel wreath - Moscow or Sverdlovsk - depended on how Valentina Stenina performed at the thousand meters. If she was lucky, Stenina also became a three-time world champion, like Inga. And Artamonova, with a happy coincidence of circumstances, would actually leave Finland “four times undefeated.”

Stenina ran quickly, but at the finish the stopwatch recorded a result almost two seconds weaker than Inga’s. At the last distance, Artamonova flew as if on wings; she had no doubt of success.

And then there was the highest step of the podium. Happy smile. Her, Ingina, smile. The same one for which she was loved at all skating rinks on the planet.

That evening I called the Arina Hotel: “How are you feeling? What are you thinking about? After all, everything important has already happened...”

Inga did not hide her joy:

It's finished! I became the absolute world champion for the fourth time. Not a single athlete after the war, when skating became a truly mass sport, managed to achieve what fell to my lot.

Write down, I told her, write down everything you feel, what you think, so that your personal impressions are not erased by newspaper assessments, do not replace each other.

In Moscow, she showed me pieces of paper written on a dark northern night in Arina: “I can’t believe it! I run into the locker room, boys surround me, asking for badges and autographs. “Well, do you understand that you have become the strongest again?” - friends ask. Oh, girls, I'm so glad. And for all of us. Again with victory to our native land! Happy victory!

The northern lights winked sadly at me, flashing over the icy northern sea. I am in a good mood - I have received many telegrams from people I know and don’t know, but are dear to me.

I can't find any place for happiness. I wander around the room, dreaming of the dawn that will flow through the hotel window, slide across the pillow, wake me up to say:

“This peak is not the last, Inga! The climb is not over - there is still a whole life ahead!

But this peak turned out to be the last. Inga died tragically before she turned 30 (she was killed by her husband Gennady Voronin).

I think about her again and again, I remember her...

She was full of charm and human tenderness. To say about her that she was a good person means to say nothing. Inga was a real person. What she did in sports will never cease to excite the minds of fans and sports scientists. This will remain like in a fairy tale. Inga Artamonova accomplished a feat: a girl who had been ill with tuberculosis for seven years became a master of sports in rowing, a four-time world champion in speed skating, exceeded more than ten world records, and won twenty-seven times at individual distances of the national championships. But will this dry arithmetic speak eloquently about Inga? Of course not.

Inga was a cheerful and witty conversationalist. Her knowledge of literature and various fields of culture was truly remarkable. She was the unofficial champion of knitting champions. In 1965, she won a dance prize in Kirov and was known as a skilled cook. Inga drew excellently - as a child she even dreamed of being an architect or fashion designer, she spoke English... And then - a tragic death.

She did not die long - just a few minutes. And, feeling that she was dying, Inga could not come to terms with the fact that she would not see the gray and watery Moscow sky for the last time and would not say goodbye to winter. She ran up the stairs. But I didn't have time...

And when thousands of Muscovites saw off their champion on her last journey, the first frosts hit Moscow. Winter has come to say goodbye to Inga...

And it snowed, snowed, snowed...

How the idols left. Last days and watches of people's favorites Razzakov Fedor

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ARTAMONOVA INGA(skater, multiple champion of the USSR, world and Europe; killed on January 4, 1966 at the age of 29).

Artamonova was killed by her own husband, athlete Gennady Voronin. The reason was banal - jealousy. This happened shortly after Artamonova returned from the World Championships in Finland, where she won championship gold for the fourth time.

On New Year's Eve 1966, Artamonova made the final decision to part with Voronin. She packed her things and went to her mother. New Year she met in company with her new beau, Alexander Bychkov, who was six years younger than her. Having learned about this, Voronin was inflamed with wild jealousy towards his wife. During the years that Voronin lived with Artamonova, he got used to the fact that she always obeyed him, was afraid of him and did not contradict him. Apparently, he decided that this time everything would be the same. But I was wrong.

On January 4, Voronin came to his mother-in-law’s house. Next is the story of I. Artamonova’s brother Vladimir Artamonov:

“Everything happened before my eyes.

Voronin came home drunk, as usual.

“Let’s go into the other room and talk,” he said to his wife. Inga got up from the sofa, and they found themselves facing each other... I sat so that I could only see Voronin’s back.

- Well, what do you want? Speak,” she said.

Suddenly I saw Voronin’s torso lean to the left and slightly back, and his right hand made a sharp movement towards Inga’s chest.

- It is for you!

Inga screamed:

- Oh, mom, heart!

Without realizing what had happened, I jumped out of my seat and grabbed Voronin from behind. Holding it, I looked at Inga. She grabbed the left side of her chest with her hands, then with her right hand she pulled out the blade (the knife was strong blow The handle cracked and remained in Voronin’s fist).

Inga took a step towards the door, mom followed her, Voronin rushed after them, but I held him back. We collapsed on the sofa, then on the floor. It was impossible to allow him to catch up with Inga... Since she ran, it means that the wound is not so dangerous, it means she will live...

A few minutes later, Voronin nevertheless broke free and for some reason went out onto the balcony (I later learned from the criminal case that, unnoticed by me, he picked up a cracked wooden handle from a knife and threw her from the eighth floor balcony into the snow). We didn’t have a phone, so I rushed outside to the machine to call the police.

As it turned out later, Inga and her mother went down two floors to the apartment where the doctor lived. Inga lay down on the ottoman, and her mother ran to her friends to call an ambulance. Meanwhile, Inga began to bubble in her chest, a wheezing sound was heard in her throat, and she lost consciousness... Neither the doctor who lived in this apartment, nor the doctors who arrived by ambulance could help...”

Literally the next day after this incident, Moscow was filled with rumors about him. What people didn’t say about the champion’s death: that her lover killed her, that she committed suicide, that she was shot by her husband who caught her in lesbian love (there were rumors around the city about Artamonova’s “special” relationship with speed skater Alexandra Chudina), etc. d. The official authorities responded to this event on January 6 with a short obituary in the newspaper “Soviet Sport”: “The life of Inga Artamonova was cut short prematurely and tragically... An outstanding Soviet athlete... A wonderful person, she devoted her entire life to the development of Soviet sports... In her life, Inga accomplished a sporting feat ... She owns many world records... Inga won with her wonderful human qualities, outstanding sporting achievements, warm and friendly attitude towards people, universal love and appreciation among wide circles of the sports community both in our country and abroad..."

Meanwhile, the main culprit of the incident, Voronin, was arrested by the police the day after the murder. The investigation began. This is what V. Artamonov recalls about this:

“Voronin lied shamelessly. And that he did not understand how it happened; and that Inga herself went to the knife; and that the mother pulled Inga by the hand, and Inga stumbled upon the point. He even came up with such a touching detail: as if he took a doll lying on the sofa and said: “Here, Inga, we would like such a baby doll with you...”

For some reason, the investigator did not put any barriers to Voronin’s lies, allowing him to refer to his wife’s past. More than difficult conditions family life, as a result of which she wanted to get a divorce, he was interested in whether the spouses agreed on a divorce on the eve of the New Year and whether Inga “legally” decided to celebrate the New Year without her husband. In fact, fearing threats to kill her if she wanted a divorce, she told him another meeting place (myself, my mother, and our stepfather have heard threats to kill more than once during their quarrels). The investigation, however, did not want to take our objections into account. As, indeed, with the statements of famous speed skaters about Voronin’s character. “I can characterize him as an insidious person, acting thoughtfully and on the sly” (Boris Shilkov). “Gennady beat her, we often saw Inga with bruises. I can’t say anything good about him” (Boris Stenin). “It was known that Gennady mocked her, beat her, and he often drank. I have never heard her give any reason for jealousy” (Tamara Rylova). “I often saw her with bruises on her face. He drank and lived at her expense” (Konstantin Kudryavtsev, coach of the USSR national team).

As it became known during the investigation, it was not Inga who cheated on her husband, but he who cheated on her, which he himself later admitted. One of his mistresses also confessed, who turned out to be Inga’s “friend” - that’s what “miracles” happen! Wasn’t she the one who planted the anonymous letters?

Reading between the lines of the “case”, you can see that the investigator sympathizes with the killer (Inga earned more, and this, you see, upset her husband) and thus saves him from Article 102, possible execution. The 103rd, which was later appointed, served, I think, as a good clue for further reducing the punishment for the murderer. A month and a half later, by decision of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR, his stay in prison was canceled, and already in 1968 he was completely released from custody!!! For the next three years, the killer was free, working on “construction sites for the national economy.”

The emphasis was on jealousy - in the testimony of Voronin, his relatives and friends, in the concept of the entire investigation. At the same time - denigration of Inga. The investigator managed to belittle Inga’s contribution to sports, and this belittlement was included in the indictment. At the same time, the achievements of Voronin, who was named a prize-winner, were strengthened Olympic Games which he never was. The decision of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR even included the fact that my mother and I, it turns out, did not see Voronin stab him at all!

I was struck by the “resourcefulness” of the killer himself: he began to put forward the idea of ​​treason against the Motherland on Inga’s part: they say that before her marriage she had a relationship with a foreigner, she wanted to leave the Union... And he showed himself as a “patriot”, creating the impression that even though he killed, it was still true understands the politics of the party and the state. In general, it is not difficult to notice a certain “directing”, and quite skillfully carried out, although not entirely subtly. That is why I do not exclude the possibility that Voronin was just a killer, as we call hired killers today. Is that why he was released so quickly? And was it not because he was allowed to lie in his investigative testimony because everything had already been planned out in advance in someone’s terrible scenario, from intrigue to the release of the killer? The question is who directed this dirty business, from whom it came. From the very top, from sports management, envious people, rivals? What if the intentions of all ill-wishers converged on one point?! Perhaps, at first, everyone only wanted to intrigue, spoil the athlete’s nerves, undermine her reputation, worsen her athletic preparedness, bring discord into family life... But a tragedy happened.”

Inga Artamonova was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery, in the same area where Sergei Stolyarov (1969), Vladimir Vysotsky (1980), Vladislav Listyev (1995) would later be buried.

What happened to the champion's killer Gennady Voronin? Here is what A. Yusin writes about him: “Voronin served time, drank himself to death, but is alive. Olympic champion Lyudmila Titova told me, who once visited Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region, for speed skating, that Voronin approached her: “Why don’t you say hello?” - “I’m with strangers I don’t say hello.” - “But I’m Voronin.” - “And even more so with such non-humans.” After these words he walked away.

European vice-champion Yuri Yumashev met him later: “Voronin, a little bald old man, came up to me with a glass: “Let’s drink to all the good things...” I thought: he’s no longer a survivor, pathetic, degraded... But who did he kill?

CASE OF ARTAMONOV (LARK) MEETING WITH AN AGENT In November 1966, a resident invited me: - Has Popov already told you about the upcoming work? So, you will get in touch with Agent Lark, recruited in the spring. He works in the analytical division of the DIA. He was recruited by Kochnov, who

Othello in Soviet style Inga ARTAMONOVA I. Artamonova was born on August 29, 1936 in Moscow. Her childhood was not particularly joyful - the girl had to endure a war, a divorce from her parents, and a serious illness (doctors discovered she had tuberculosis). However, despite this, Inga grew