Ilia Bolshaya: Collegiate swimmer with a 3.97 GPA and a huge sausage. With n*de swimmers and why gay men don't major in science

  

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The n*de celebrity subreddit posted a photo of Ilia, who is walking into the room swinging his stuff.  I figured he was an actor, but research reveals that he was a college swimmer.  Quite a prestigious one, with a lot of awards.

But the subreddit took him down right away, so they don't consider him celebrity enough.

I'm torn.  Are a lot of swimming awards enough?

I was convinced by learning that fraternity initiations at his college often involve stripping the guy, so there are a number of n*de photos around (on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends). 

 But I'll compromise by changing Ilia's last name (Bolshaya means "huge" in Russian, as in большая сосиска, "big sausage").  

I'll also omit the names of his colleges, so he can't be tracked down easily (searching for "Ilia" and "swimmer" doesn't do it).

Ilia is originally from Moscow.  As a teenager, he competed in swimming events across Europe, including this one in Regensburg, where I spent a quarter abroad during my sophomore year. 

He graduated from a gymnasium (high school) in 2016, and enrolled in college in the U.S., where he majored in biology.

He was on the swim team, of course.  His favorite dish was sushi, and his favorite non-swimming activity was reading.

 

He joined a fraternity where they typically strip candidates.

In 2020, Ilia received his B.S. in Biology, with a 3.97 GPA, and went to graduate school in Biomedical Engineering.  As of the summer of 2025, he is a Ph.D. candidate, researching the intersection of pharmacogenomics, artificial intelligence, and mathematical modeling.  He also has an internship in quantitative pharmacology, and five publications.

More after the break  

The swinging sausage is on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends.

  

He has no social media presence except for a Facebook page that hasn't been updated since 2020.  I determine if someone is gay on Instagram by looking for the absence of girl-hugging photos and "married to the most beautiful woman on Earth" taglines.  On Facebook, I look for the ratio of male and female friends.  For Ilia, it's about 50/50

But his career is suggesting that he is straight: most gay men shy away from science majors due the heterosexist harassment and homophobia of classmates (and professors) in their first science classes, the need to closet themselves during group projects (which results in poor grades), and the belief that they will have to stay closeted in the workplace.

Left: Theater majors from Denver.  There's a n*de science major on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends. 

A study found that, of students who declared an interest in science in high school, 71% of heterosexual men and 54% of gay men ended up as science majors in college.   

When I was an undergrad, I declared a biology major for about 30 minutes before hightailing it into the humanities. 

So Ilia is probably straight.  But big sausage is attractive regardless of what he does with it.

The profile is a little beefcake-light, so here are some more swimmers:

See also: Knox Gibson: Australian swimmer, model, "Hunger Games" baddie, disability advocate. With some n*de co-stars and random twinks

Dane's Polar Plunge: A 365 day Lake Tahoe Challenge. With Scott Gaffney, Danish dicks, and n*de guys at Notre Dame

Alexi Kapishnikov: two acting roles, modeling, commercials, a polar plunge...and adult photos? In Russia?