Aleksandr Grigoryevich Mazur ( uk, Олекса́ндр Григо́рович Ма́зур; russian: Алекса́ндр Григо́рьевич Ма́зур, 30 August 1913 – 16 December 2005) was a heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from

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who won a world title in 1955, aged 42. He retired the same year and between 1955 and 1990 coached wrestlers at his sports society

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. His trainees included Aleksandr Yurkevich,

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, Yury Kozin,

Anatoly Kirov Anatoly Nikolayevich Kirov (russian: Анатолий Николаевич Киров; born 7 July 1936) is a retired Soviet heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler. He won the Soviet title in 1956, 1958 and 1961 and a European title in 1962.

, Georgy Vershinin, Vladimir Novokhatko and Valery Anisimov.МАЗУР Александр Григорьевич
smsport.ru Retrieved 21 April 2016. Mazur was born into a farmer's family and had two brothers and three sisters. He took up wrestling in 1934, and worked as a professional wrestler in a circus until the 1941 German invasion of Soviet Union, when he enlisted to the

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and until December 1942 fought as a

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. After that he studied at the State University of Physical Education and won the Soviet heavyweight wrestling titles in 1944, 1945, 1947 and 1949, placing second in 1946, 1948 and 1950–1953 and third in 1943 and 1954. He later had minor roles in the Soviet films ''Wrestler and clown'' (1957) and ''Far from the war''.

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