27.Valeriy Popenchenko Memorial
Magadan, Russia
May 6-9, 1997
Winners
| 48kg | Kang Moon | KOR |
| 51kg | Maksim Taybolin | RUS |
| 54kg | Alexandr Kuznetsov | RUS |
| 57kg | Dmitriy Bashkirtsev | RUS |
| 60kg | Sergey Milyutin | RUS |
| 67kg | Alexey Arefev | RUS |
| 71kg | Denis Pshenichnyy | RUS |
| 75kg | Oleg Danilov | RUS |
| 81kg | Vadim Shidlovskiy | RUS |
| 91kg | Alexey Klesov | RUS |
source:
"Gong" no 1/1997
thanks to Vladimir Nigmatulin