Yury Vlasov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Yury Vlasov

Soviet Olympic weightlifter, writer and politician

Date of Birth: 05-Dec-1935

Place of Birth: Makiivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine

Profession: writer, politician, journalist, weightlifter

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Yury Petrovich Vlasov (Russian: ???? ???????? ??????; born 5 December 1935) is a Soviet writer and retired heavyweight weightlifter and politician.
He competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a gold medal in 1960 and a silver in 1964; at both games he was the Olympic flag bearer for the Soviet Union.
During his career Vlasov won four world titles and set 31 ratified world records.
He retired in 1968 and became a prominent writer and later a politician.
He was a member of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union (1989) and then of the Russian State Duma (1993) and took part in the 1996 Russian presidential election.