Nikolay Nikolayevich
Gusakov (May 14, 1934 – 1993) was a former Soviet nordic combined skier who
won a bronze in the individual event at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw
Valley. He also won the Nordic combined event at the Holmenkollen ski festival
in 1961. Gusakov trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Moscow and later
in Leningrad. He was the first Soviet athlete to win an Olympic medal in the
Nordic combined and the first one to win the Nordic combined event at the Holmenkollen
ski festival.
Mariya Ivanovna Vassiliéva (February 12, 1884 – May 14, 1957), better known as Marie Vassilieff, was a Russian Empire painter
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