A detailed feature article has been published about Anatoly Parfenov, an Olympic heavyweight wrestling champion with a remarkable background. Parfenov was a peasant's son of enormous physical strength who served in World War II as both a storm trooper and tank operator, meeting victory in Berlin. After only five years of classical wrestling training, he won an Olympic gold medal and later coached the legendary Nikolai Balboshin. The story includes interviews with his son and students, plus a visit to his hometown village of Dvornikovo outside Moscow where locals still remember him. Multiple anecdotes illustrate his legendary strength, including carrying buckets of cabbage with one finger, single-handedly defeating multiple bandits who terrorized motorists on Yegorievskoe Highway, and transporting logs from the forest either by hand or by pulling sleds and carts himself instead of using horses. One 80-year-old villager recalls Parfenov gathering local children by the river, organizing football games, forbidding cursing and smoking, and swimming in the old riverbed's cold water, describing him as twice the size of his already large son and remembering him as a magnificent person.
