 As of 2019, only three men (Antonio Krastev of Bulgaria, Behdad Salimi of Iran, and Georgian world-record holder Lasha Talakhadze) have ever snatched more than his 215kg, only six men (Soviet teammates Sergey Didyk, Anatoly Pisarenko and Leonid Taranenko, Andrei Chemerkin of Russia, Talakhadze of Georgia, and Hossein Rezazadeh of Iran) have ever lifted a clean and jerk of more than his 260kg, and only Talakhadze, Rezazadeh, and Taranenko have totalled more than the 472.5kg that Kurlovich lifted to win the 1987 World Championship.Kurlovich died on 6 April 2018 in Grodno, Belarus.He was 56.