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Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg
About Galina Vecherkovskaya
- Galina Yanovna Vecherkovskaya (also Putyrskaya, Russian: ?????? ?????? ???????????? (?????????), born 27 June 1926) is a retired Russian rower who won five European titles between 1955 and 1962.Vecherkovskaya was born in Leningrad, but during World War II her family lived in Ryazan Oblast.
- Her father, Jan Kazimirovich, was an engineer who was executed during the Stalin's purges in late 1930s.
- Vecherkovskaya started training in rowing in 1947, when she enrolled to the Lesgaft Institute of Physical Education (GDOIFK).
- She graduated in 1951 and until 1984 lectured at GDOIFK; after that, between 1984 and 1997 she worked as a physician at a city hospital for children.
- Around 1948 Vecherkovskaya married her coach, Kiril Putyrski, and for some time competed under his name as Galina Putyrskaya; they divorced around 1960.Before the 1955 European Championships, Vecherkovskaya and her partner Mikhailova were medal favorites in double sculls.
- However, two rowers of the Soviet coxed four became pregnant, and to save the team Vecherkovskaya and Mikhailova were merged into the coxed four that resulted in a gold medal.
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