Grigoriy Kochiev
(1938-1992)
Weight lifting USSR National Champion and record holder (1966, 1968).
Champion of the "Friendship Cup".
Member of the Soviet National team.
Later on he worked as a coach in South Ossetia.
In 1992 Grigory Kochiev traveling from South Ossetia to North was killed by avalanche on Transcaucasian highway.