Cross-country skier.
Born July 15th, 1930 in Lampozhnya.
Died October 5th, 2007 at 77 years old in Moscow. [ref]
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. John Muir