Evgeni Valentinovich Berzin, born on 3 June 1970, is a Russian former road cyclist. He began as a track rider in the youth system of the Soviet team at the age of 14, and won both the amateur individual pursuit and the team pursuit for the Soviet Union at the 1990 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. After leaving Russia for Italy he turned professional with Mecair-Ballan in 1993, riding that first season as a domestique for Piotr Ugrumov. In 1994, his second professional season, he won Liege-Bastogne-Liege and the Giro d'Italia, becoming the first Russian cyclist to win a Grand Tour, and he finished second in the 1995 Giro behind Tony Rominger.
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He finished second in the 1995 Giro d'Italia
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At the 1996 Tour de France, he took the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification on stage 7 to Les Arcs
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