Rise: 6.54 Set: 18.27 Day's longitude: 11.33 Rise: 9.50 Set: 1.03 First quarter: March 13

1947 – b. Alexander BOLOSHEV, basketball HMS. Olympic champ (1972). World champ (1974), European (1969, 1971). 1947 – b. David RIGERT, weightlifting HMS. Olympic champ (1976). Multiple world champ (1971 – 1978), European (1971 – 1979), USSR (1972 – 1978). In 1971 – 1979 set 63 world records. 1953 – b. Pavel PINIGIN, freestyle wrestling HMS. Olympic champ (1976) in the weight category 68 kg. World champ (1975, 1977 – 1078), European (1975), USSR (1975 – 1976). IT WAS 1934 – in Sverdlovsk the All-Union skiing festival was held with participation of foreign sportsmen from Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Czechoslovakia. 20 thousands spectators were watching with great interest the competitions of “flying skiers” on the largest ski-jump in the country which had just been opened in Uktusy. The Muscovite N. KHORKOV made the record jump (44, 5 m). 1978 – there was a new world achievement at the European Athletics Championship indoors in Milan. High-jumper Vladimir YASCHENKO has overcome a plank at the level 2 m 35 c.