Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Valentin Dmitriyevich Zakharov () tsohon dan wasan tsere na Soviet ne. Ya kasance zakaran Soviet na kasa sau biyu. A cikin 1956, an haɗa Zakharov a cikin rukunin farko na Tarayyar Soviet zuwa Gasar Zakarun Turai. Ya kasance na 16 a gasar zakarun Turai ta 1956
a Paris, na 11 a Turai na 1957 a Vienna, kuma na 11 a Turai na 1958 a Bratislava. A cikin 1958, ya yi gasa a Gasar Cin Kofin Duniya a Paris - wasan farko na Tarayyar Soviet a taron. Ya gama a 20th.