MOSCOW, February 5 Olympic fencing champion Boris Melnikov dies aged 83 years, according to the page of the Committee for Physical Culture and Sports of St. Petersburg on VKontakte. «Today, our fellow countryman, the Olympic champion in fencing in 1964, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Boris Borisovich Melnikov, passed away. The famous Olympian was 83 years old,» — the message says.
