The Tallinn-Avtotrans Groups of Yoga and Martial Arts

By Vladimir Wiedemann Vladimir, teaching in the Yoga group of the Avtotrans. Tallinn, 1981. Vladimir Wiedemann’s archive. I organized the yoga group Avtotrans in Tallinn in 1980 during my work as a sports instructor at the Soviet Estonian Trucking Industry Association “Tallinavtotrans.”[1] For my students and me, the name “Avtotrans” successfully combined elements of the actual name of the enterprise and, at the same time, was interpreted by the sportsmen and me as “self-hypnosis” (avto/auto...