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Vasily AlexeevVasily Alexeev (born January 27, 1942) is a former weightlifter from the Soviet Union whose career spanned the 1960s and 1970s. He was noted for his performances in the Olympic Games in the super-heavyweight class. Alexeev set 80 world records over the co Vasily SmyslovVasily Vasiliyevich Smyslov (born March 24, 1921) is a chess player. He was World Champion from 1957 to 1958. Smyslov was a fine baritone singer, only deciding on a career in chess after a failed audition for the Bolshoi Theatre in 1950. Later, he sometim Vasily Alexandrovich ZaitsevVasily Alexandrovich Zaitsev was a Soviet sniper during World War II. He was officially credited with 242 kills. It is estimated that the snipers he had trained killed more than 3000 enemy soldiers. Zaitsev served until 1943, when he suffered an injury to Vasily Ilyich SafonovVasily Ilyich Safonov ( February 6, 1852 February 27, 1918); Russian composer. Safonov was never a particularly successful composer in his own right, but was a master music educator, becoming Director of the Moscow Conservatory in 1889, teaching some of t Vasily Andreevich TropininVasily Andreevich Tropinin ( March 30 1776 ( O. March 19) May 16 1857 ( O. May 4)) was a Russian painter who worked in the Romantic movement. Much of his life was spent as a serf; he didn't attain his freedom until he was more than forty years old. His ar Vasily KalinnikovVasily Kalinnikov ( January 13 (January 1, Old Style), 1866 January 11, 1901) was a Russian composer of two symphonies, several additional orchestral works and numerous songs, all of them imbued with characteristics of folksong. His symphonies, particular Vasily Lukich Dolgorukov Vasily Kuznetsov Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky Vasily Degtyarev Vasily Chuikov Vasily Blyukher Vasily Grossman Vasily Surikov