Gennady Golobokov — the strongest man in the USSR 🔭⭐️ Gennady Golobokov was born in 1935 in the remote village of Malaya Bykovka in the Saratov region. Despite the hardships of the Great Patriotic War that fell on his early years, Gennady was from childhood fascinated by space, painting and poetry. In the fourth grade he built a telescope himself to study the stars. 🩼 At 16 Golobokov endured a terrible tragedy — a spinal fracture left him almost unable to move. Any other person would have lost all hope and will to live, but Gennady said of himself: «I am one of those who, even in the greyest of greys, can find the run-up to the stars». 🖼🎨 Paralyzed Gennady found the meaning of life in inspiring people to new achievements through his art. Physically bedridden, he painted pictures about the exploits of the heroes of the October Revolution, about those who fought Nazism and, of course, about the conquerors of space. Gennady's work is imbued with deep psychologism, with the attempt to understand what a person feels when manifesting their best qualities. The artist extols the strength of man, the ability to tame a hostile environment, to struggle against circumstances and to win! 🥇⭐️ Thanks to persistent labour and talent, Gennady was able to graduate by correspondence from the university of arts, took part in and won numerous art competitions. The artist never wrote about his illness, as he was convinced that his works should be assessed objectively. Golobokov's art and life path are a symbol of faith in man, of the striving to create conditions for his fulfilment and of the human strength that socialism gave to the world. Through thorns to the stars! Per aspera ad astra! #SOVINTERN_ACHIEVMENTS #Moscow_network_hub ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN