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Uploaded by on Jul 8, 2007

Soviet documentary about the great gymnast Natalia Yurchenko. Featuring training scenes, competition clips and other soviet gymnasts as well.
It's in Russian.

Originally captured by zavulon.

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  • A life of few and simple pleasures, almost no distractions, and lots of hard work - that's what makes a champion at this level. This is why the Soviets DOMINATED for so long. And also why Romania did. And why America never did and never will.

  • The cinematography gives it such a spooky feeling, like you're going into the deep, dark communist Russia all of us in American were taught to be afraid of. I love this documentar so much!

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  • thanks

  • i like the slightly psychadelic dream sequence!

  • I love that the coach is yelling out grades/marks for their flips like in school. He even gives a girl an "edinitsa", which is like the equivalent of F-minus. Brutal.

  • @LMA629 I heard it too.. really weird!

  • did i hear one of them say "thank you" in English at around 5:14??

  • Natalia was born in a place called Norilsk - even for the USSR they don't come much more extreme - or grim. One of the coldest, Northernmost inhabited places on earth, it was a originally a gulag. Horribly polluted, freezing and with infrastructure and buildings now crumbling, life expectancy is in the early 40s Check it out - both its sad history and the many pics on places like Flickr and Google maps etc.

  • @GymFloozie Really? What more do American gymnasts need to do besides going 1-2 in the all-around? You're being a bit unfair.

  • @gymnasticsloverxoxo it may have been before it was on youtube....

  • Cinematography was clearly not an important part of Soviet film making. This video has an eerie feel to it.

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