Armenak "Aram" Yaltyryan (russian: Ялтырян, uk, Ялтирян, 13 May 1914 – 18 December 1999) was a Soviet lightweight wrestler. He won a silver medal at the 1947 European Championships and placed fourth at the

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.Armenak Yaltyryan
sports-reference.com Yaltyryan was born to an

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n family in the village of Krym,

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, Russia. He took up wrestling in 1934 and competed in the lightweight division both in Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling. He won the Soviet title in 1938–1940 and 1945–1952 in freestyle and in 1946–1948 in Greco-Roman wrestling. His career was interrupted by

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, when he fought in the Battle of Kiev and was taken a

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. He retired in 1952 and then had a long career as a wrestling coach in

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. His trainees include Vladimir Sinyavsky, Boris Gurevich, Yury Gusov and

Vladimir Gulyutkin Vladimir Yakovlevich Gulyutkin (russian: Владимир Яковлевич Гулюткин, born 29 March 1942) is a retired Soviet heavyweight freestyle wrestler. He won the world title in 1970 and 1974, the European title in 1968, 1969 and ...

. In 1986 he returned to Krym, where he continued to coach wrestlers until his death in 1999. ПОЕДИНОК ДЛИНОЮ В ЖИЗНЬ (к 95-летию со дня рождения А. В. Ялтыряна)
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1914 births 1999 deaths People from Don Host Oblast Soviet male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers of the Soviet Union Wrestlers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Russian male sport wrestlers Russian people of Armenian descent Soviet Armenians Dynamo sports society athletes Soviet military personnel of World War II World War II prisoners of war held by Germany Soviet prisoners of war Sportspeople from Rostov Oblast {{Russia-wrestling-bio-stub