"Olympic Reserve" Scientific and Methodological Journal № 5, 2020

Scientific and methodological 

journal № 5, 2020 

15 YEARS SINCE 

THE FIRST WORLD 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

IN ICE SKATING 

IN RUSSIA: 

Luzhkov’s tears, shock from 

“Krylatskoye” and the 

“Russian mafia” 

ZAURBEK SIDAKOV: 

“After the terrorist attack 

in Beslan, I gave up wrestling 

for two years” 

ALENA MOKHOVA: 

“The less time remained 

before the Games, the stronger 

was the fear” 

THE RESULTS OF THE 

RUSSIAN CHAMPIONSHIP 

IN RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS 

from Irina Viner-Usmanova 

ARTUR BETERBIEV: 

“In Moscow, I first thought I shouldn’t answer 

to the girls’ “Hello!“ 

CANCELLED AND 

POSTPONED 

TOURNAMENTS 

due to coronavirus 

FIRST IS ALWAYS FIRST

OLYMPIC RESERVE 

No. 5, 2020 

SCIENTIFIC AND METHODOLOGICAL 

JOURNAL 

MOSCOW SPECIALIZED OLYMPIC 

RESERVE SCHOOL No. 1 

Media Registration Certificate 

ELECTRONIC No ФС 77-76232 issued 

July 12, 2019 

The journal is indexed in the Russian 

Science Citation Index (RSCI) 

www.elibrary.ru 

EDITORIAL BOARD: 

Сhairman 

MUSULBES David Vladimirovich 

Chief Editor 

GORSHKOV ANATOLY GRIGORIEVICH 

SCIENTIFIC EDITORIAL BOARD: 

• Andryushchenko Lilia Borisovna – Doctor of Pedagogical 

Sciences, Professor, Moscow 

• Zhiyar Marina Vladimirovna – Doctor of Pedagogical 

Sciences, Associate Professor, Moscow 

• Ivankov Chingis Tagirovich – Doctor of Pedagogical 


• Karpov Vladimir Yuryevich – Doctor of Pedagogical 


• Kim Tatyana Konstantinovna – Doctor of Pedagogical 


• Kudinov Anatoly Alexandrovich – Doctor of Pedagogical 

Sciences, Professor, Volgograd 

• Myagkova Svetlana Nikolaevna – Doctor of Pedagogical 


• Nikitushkin Victor Grigorievich – Doctor of Pedagogical 


• Sokolova Vera Sergeevna – MD, Professor, Moscow 

• Strizhak Anatoly Petrovich – Doctor of Pedagogical 


• Tarasova Lyubov Viktorovna – Doctor of Pedagogical 


• Sobina Vladimir Abramovich – Doctor of Pedagogical 


• Mironov Vyacheslav Vasilievich – Doctor of Pedagogical 

Sciences, Professor, St. Petersburg 

Founder: 

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MIRSKY Dmitry Leonidovich 

Members of the editorial board: 

MUSULBES SOFIA NIKOLAEVNA 

KUTIN ILYA VIKTOROVICH 

GRACHEVA IRINA VLADIMIROVNA 

DULEPOVA ALLA VALEREVNA 

KHUDYAKOVA NATALYA VIKTOROVNA 

SLEPCHENKO GALINA ALEKSANDROVNA 

EREMIN MAXIM VIKTOROVICH 

MUSHAKOV ALEXEI ANATOLIEVICH 

GIGASHVILI MAXIM YURIEVICH 

GIRINA LYUBOV SERGEEVNA 

Scientific and methodological 

journal № 5, 2020 

15 YEARS SINCE 

THE FIRST WORLD 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

IN ICE SKATING 

IN RUSSIA: 

Luzhkov’s tears, shock from 

“Krylatskoye” and the 

“Russian mafia” 


“The less time remained 

before the Games, the stronger 


“After the terrorist attack 

in Beslan, I gave up wrestling 

for two years” 

CANCELLED AND 

POSTPONED 

TOURNAMENTS 

due to coronavirus 

was the fear” 

THE RESULTS OF THE 

RUSSIAN CHAMPIONSHIP 

IN RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS 

from Irina Viner-Usmanova 

ARTUR BETERBIEV: 

“In Moscow, I first thought I shouldn’t answer 

to the girls’ “Hello!“ 

FIRST IS ALWAYS FIRST 

COVER PHOTO: 

Artur Beterbiev – 

World Champion 

according to IBF 

and WBC 

2 OLYMPIC RESERVE 5/2020

СОДЕРЖАНИЕ 

04 EXPERT OPINION ABOUT JUVENILE 

SPORTS 

05 HISTORY OF THE SAMARA OLYMPC 

RESERVE SCHOOL 

09 THE 2020 WINTER YOUTH OLYMPIC 

GAMES 

10 2020 YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES 

CHAMPION ALENA MOKHOVA: “THE LESS 

TIME REMAINED BEFORE THE GAMES,THE 

STRONGER WAS THE FEAR” 

12 SPORT IS POSTPONED. CANCELED 

AND SUSPENDED COMPETITIONS DUE TO 

CORONAVIRUS 

13 HUSSEIN BAYSANGUROV: “IT'S 

EASIER TO MISS A BLOW IN THE HEAD THAN A 

STOMACHER“ 

14 OLEG MATYTSIN – NEW MINISTER OF 

SPORTS OF RUSSIA 

15 BAIKAL RACES: SKATER VERSUS 

MOTORCYCLIST, NIGHT MARATHON AND 

SWIMSUIT RACES 

18 ALAN ABAEV: “THE WORLD 

GIMNASIADE WILL TAKE PLACE IN RUSSIA IN 

2024” 

21 BILAL MAKHOV: “I WANTED TO LEARN 

TO PLAY THE PIANO MYSELF AND COULD 

PLAY A MISIC PIECE WITHOUT SHOCKING THE 

EAR OF THE LISTENERS” 

24 OLYMPIC CHAMPION DENIS 

KRIVOSHLYKOV: “I HAD STRAINS, HAND AND 

RIB FRACTURES, BUT GOD SAVED ME FROM 

SEVERE INJURIES“ 

26 KOBE BRYANT. CAREER 

ACHIEVEMENTS 

27 ARTHUR BETERBIEV: “IN MOSCOW, 

I FIRST THOUGHT I SHOULDN’T 

ANSWER TO THE GIRLS’ “HELLO!” 

30 ROUND TABLE: “MODERN TRENDS IN 

THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT“ 

32 OLYMPIC CHAMPION IGOR KRAVCHUK: 

“MY TRADEMARK EQUIPMENT WAS FOUR 

THICK PIECES OF RUBBER AND MITTENS” 

35 WORLD CHAMPION IN FREESTYLE 

WRESTLING ZAURBEK SIDAKOV: “AFTER 

THE BESLAN TERRORIST ATTACK I GAVE UP 

WRESTLING FOR TWO YEARS” 

37 RUSSIANS SET 2 WORLD RECORDS 

AND GOT 12 MEDALS AT THE WORLD SKATING 

CHAMPIONSHIPS IN THE USA 

38 WORLD CHAMPION NINA STATKEVICH: 

“THE CHECK-TAKER FINED ME, I RAN TO THE 

STADIUM AND BEAT TWO RECORDS“ 

42 15 YEARS SINCE THE FIRST WORLD 

SKATING CHAMPIONSHIP 

IN RUSSIA: LUZHKOV’S TEARS, SHOCK FROM 

“KRYLATSKOYE”, AND THE “RUSSIAN MAFIA” 

46 RUSSIA TAKES 10 OF 12 MEDALS AT 

FIGURE SKATING EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS 

IN GRAZ (AUSTRIA) 

47 2020 RUSSIAN CHAMPIONSHIP IN 

RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS: VICTORY OF ARINA 

AVERINA, SENSATION FROM 15 YEAR-OLD LALA 

KRAMARENKO AND DINA AVERINA'S INJURY 

49 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY: 

RUSSIA WON THE MEDAL RANKING AT THE 

WORLD LUGE CHAMPIONSHIPS IN SOCHI 

50 VASILY ARTEMIEV: “UMPIRE IN RUGBY 

IS GOD ALMIGHTY“ 

53 OLYMPIANS, HEROES OF WAR – 

HEROES OF SPORT 

67 NEW APPROACHES IN DIAGNOSTICS 

AND PREVENTION OF POSTURE DISORDERS 

OF 12-14 YEAR OLD ADOLESCENTS 

72 PHYSICAL REHABILITATION OF 

ELDERLY PEOPLE AFTER A STROKE, BY MEANS 

OF NORDIC WALKING 

75 ANALYSIS OF CHESS PLAYERS 

GROUP IN THE REGIONS OF THE RUSSIAN 

FEDERATION 

77 EVOLUTION OF WOMEN'S PENTATHLON 

AND HEPTATHLON IN OLYMPIC GAMES 

79 REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DESIGN OF 

ARTICLES 

81 MSSOUR1 FLAG TRAVELS THE PLANET 

5/2020 


3

EXPERT OPINION 

ABOUT JUVENILE SPORTS 

“ 

“The medal itself will not jump on the neck. I am 

sure: nothing motivates an athlete and encourages 

him to work so much as the progress of 

an opponent. The team is what is necessary! A 

leader is the one who accumulates all the strong 

points and “shoots”. What is more, it is necessary 

to work with young people not as with children, 

but as with candidates for the Olympic Games, 

with champions!” – Honored coach of Russia 

Alexei Mishin on the preparation of sports 

reserve athletes in an interview with the media. 

(https: // www.sports.ru) 

“Today there are a lot of people and public 

organizations involved in professional 

“ 

sports. 

But we forgot about children's sports, we forgot 

that the Olympic champions our country is 

proud of, they are born in youth schools. And 

these schools most often exist on their own,” – 

said Svetlana Khorkina, two-time Olympic 

champion and first deputy chief of the Federal 

Autonomous Organization of the RF 

Ministry of Defense CSKA on the problems 

of children's sport in an interview with the 

media. 

(http: // www.infox.ru) 

“Children's sports schools have stopped working. This is what I 

want to convey. Such schools have brought up dozens of highclass 

athletes. Today they are disappearing, and this is 

“ 

wrong. 

The massive development of sports is important, but children’s 

schools and coaches are needed. After all, not everyone 

has the opportunity to pay and go to a professional team” – 

Honored Volleyball Coach of the Russian Federation, Head 

Coach of Kazan Zenit Volleyball Club Vladimir Alekno on 

the significance of the functioning of children's sports 

schools in his speech at the regional election headquarters 

of Russian President Vladimir V. Putin. 

(https: // kazan.bezformata.com) 


HISTORY 

OF SAMARA STATE 

SCHOOL 

OF OLYMPIC RESERVE 

T 

he school of the Olympic reserve in Samara was opened in 1994 by order of the 

Committee of the Russian Federation for Physical Culture and Tourism No. 24 of 

06/17/1994 with the direct participation of the Central Sporting Club of the Navy. It 

was headed by Karnaukhov Garry Zakharovich. 

KARNAUKHOV 

GARRY ZAHAROVICH 

Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, 

Professor, Honored 

physical education worker 

of the Russian Federation, 

director of the school from 1994 

to 2014 and from 2016 to 2018 

The purpose of opening the school 

was to create conditions for the continuous 

training of athletes – candidates 

for members of the sports teams of the 

Russian Federation during their studies 

at school. 

Many years of experience in the field 

of sports, pedagogical skills and outstanding 

organizational abilities of G.Z. 

Karnaukhov contributed to the opening 

of school branches in 1995 in Smolensk 

and Kislovodsk, which were subsequently 

reorganized into independent institutions. 

In 1994, the following departments 

were opened at the school: 

• y rowing; 

• y badminton; 

• y cycling; 

• y Greco-Roman wrestling; 

• y track and field athletics; 

• y swimming; 

• y bullet shooting; 

• y artistic gymnastics; 

• y fencing; 

• y figure skating; 

• y football. 

Garry Zakharovich actively used the 

results of his own research in working 

with athletes and colleagues. He developed 

a multi-level system for training 

qualified specialists and athletes; 

he had more than 80 published scientific 

papers and articles. Thanks to his 

knowledge, experience and high authority, 

Garry Karnaukhov also headed 

the Board of Directors of schools of 

Olympic reserve. 

EROKHIN 

VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH 

USSR master of sports in bullet 

shooting, honored coach of Russia, 

honored worker of physical culture 

of the Russian Federation, 

director of the school from 2014 

to 2016 

From 2014 to 2016, the director of 

the school was Erokhin Vladimir Vladimirovich. 

From 2016 to 2018 – Karnaukhov Garry 

Zakharovich. 



5

POLOVINKIN 

SERGEY ALEKSEEVICH 

School Director since 2018 

until now 

And from 2018 to the present, the 

Federal State Budgetary Institution 

Olympic Reserve School of Samara City 

has been headed by Sergey Alekseevich 

Polovinkin. 

Today, the Samara Olympic Reserve 

School is an elite institution, a center 

for coordinating the work of the Russian 

Olympic reserve schools (56 schools in 

total, 12 of them are federal). 

Since the founding of the school 

the following number of sportsmen 

have been prepared: 

• y participants in the Olympic Games – 

35 people; 

• y Honored Masters of Sports of Russia – 

20 people; 

• y International Masters of Sports of 

Russia – 79 people; 

• y Masters of Sports of Russia – 279 people. 

For the period from 1994 to 2019, 

the following number of medals were 

won: 

• y at world and European championships 

– 493 medals; 

• y at Russian championships – 493 medals; 

• y at Russian competitions – 1642 medals. 

Today, 140 people are studying at the 

Samara Olympic Reserve School, undergoing 

sports training in 19 sports: basketball, 

boxing, cycling (road), handball, 

kayaking and canoeing, rowing (academic 

rowing), judo, athletics, skiing, table 

tennis, swimming, diving, wrestling 

(freestyle and Greco-Roman), artistic 

gymnastics, tennis, taekwondo (WTF), 

fencing (foil and epee), figure skating 

(ice dancing), and football. 

Since 1996, students and graduates of 

the school have taken part in the Summer 

and Winter Olympic and Paralympic 

Games. 

5 people took part in the XXVI Summer 

Olympics in 1996 in Atlanta: 

• y Galieva Rosalia (artistic gymnastics), 

• y Sorokina Natalya, Kochetkova 

Olga, Litovchenko Tatyana, Yaitskaya 

Inna (swimming) 

• y Galieva Rosalia became a silver medalist. 

7 people took part in the XXVII 

Summer Olympics in 2000 in Sydney: 

• y Aleshin Maxim (artistic gymnastics), 

• y Saraeva Anna (judo), 

• y Tenz Dmitry and Alexander Ryabov 

(track and field), 

• y Yaitskaya Inna (swimming), 

• y Karachkova Ella (badminton), 

• y Feklistova Maria (bullet shooting). 

• y Aleshin Maxim and Feklistova Maria 

won bronze medals. 

At the XXVIII Summer Olympic Games 

2004 in Athens, 6 people took part: 

• y Mkrtychan Margarita (taekwondo), 

Mishin Alexei (Greco-Roman wrestling), 

• y Smirnov Alexey (table tennis), 

• y Ryabov Alexander (athletics), 

• y Velichko Olesya (modern pentathlon), 

• y Menshov Denis (cycling). 

• y Mishin Alexei became champion of 

the Olympic Games. 

At the XXIX Summer Olympics in 

2008 in Beijing, 7 people took part: 

• y Abitova Inga (athletics), 

• y Dil (Karachkova) Ella (badminton), 

• y Menshov Denis (cycling). 

• y Mishin Alexey (Greco-Roman wrestling), 

• y Chernova (Maletina) Anastasia (sailing), 

• y Efimkin Vladimir (cycling), 

• y Smirnov Alexey (table tennis). 

At the XXX Summer Olympics 2012 

in London, 10 people took part: 

• y Zabludina Irina, Kondratieva Natalia, 

Khaibulaev Tagir (judo), 

• y Menshov Denis (cycling), 

• y Sukhov Pavel (fencing), 

• y Tikhomirova Anna, Smirnov Alexey 

(table tennis), 

• y Avdeeva Anna (athletics), 

• y Mastyanina Anna (bullet shooting). 

• y Khaibulaev Tagir won the gold medal. 

5 people took part in the XXXI Summer 

Olympics in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro: 

• y Zabludina Irina, Khaibulaev Tagir 

(judo), 

• y Sukhov Pavel (fencing), 

• y Yudin Andrey (trampolining), 

• y Kasatkina Daria (tennis). 

At the 19th Winter Olympics in 

2002 in Salt Lake City, 1 person participated: 

• y Davydov Sergey (figure skating). 

At the XX Winter Olympics in 2006 

in Turin, 2 people took part: 

• y Davydov Sergey, Shabalin Maxim 

(figure skating). 

At the XXI Olympic Winter Games 

2010 in Vancouver, 2 people took 

part: 

• y Shabalin Maxim (figure skating), 

• y Chuikova Ekaterina (skiing). 

• y Shabalin Maxim won the bronze 

medal. 

The XIII Summer Paralympic Games 

in 2008 in Beijing were attended by 2 

people: 

• y Dalekova Natalya (bullet shooting), 

• y Rodomakina Nicole (athletics). 

• y Dalekova Natalia became a bronze 

medalist. 

The XIV Summer Paralympic Games 

in 2012 in London were attended by 3 

people: 

• y Dalekova Natalya (bullet shooting), 

• y Rodomakina Nicole (athletics), 

• y Andreeva Nadezhda (kayaking and 

canoeing). 

• y Rodomakina Nicole became the 

champion of the Paralympic Games in 

long jump and a silver medalist in the 

100m race. 


OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS 

MISHIN ALEXEY VLADIMIROVICH 

Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling 

MISHIN A.V. 

KHAIBULAEV T.K. 

KHAIBULAEV TAGIR KAMALUDINOVICH 

Olympic champion in judo 

RODOMAKINA NICOLE IGOREVNA 

Paralympic champion in athletics 

RODOMAKINA N.I. 



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AT SPORTS ARENAS 

2020 

WINTER YOUTH 

OLYMPIC 

GAMES 

R 

ussia for the first time won the 

non-official medal ranking at 

the Youth Olympics. At the 

Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne 

the team won 29 medals (10 gold, 

11 silver and 8 bronze). The victory was 

made possible thanks to the gold of the 

hockey team, which in the finale was 

stronger than the United States (4 : 0). 

The main hero of the Games was biathlete 

Alena Mokhova, who won two gold 

medals - in the 6 km sprint and in the 10 

km individual race. 

Figure skating brought the most awards 

to the country – 8 (2 + 4 + 2), and biathletes 

won the most gold medals - 3 awards of the 

highest order, total of 6 medals (3 silver). 

The Russian team won the medal 

ranking for the first time thus updating 

the record number of awards. The previous 

achievement of 24 awards (7 + 8 + 9) 

was set at the Games in the Norwegian 

Lillehammer in 2016. 

The second place in the overall ranking 

was taken by the host country of the 

competition – Switzerland, with 24 medals 

(10 + 6 + 8). Japan was the last of the 

top three – 17 (9 + 7 + 1). 

The III Winter Youth Olympic Games 

were held in Lausanne from January 9 to 

22. They were attended by 1880 athletes 

aged 14 to 18 years from 70 countries, 

who competed in 16 sports. 

Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total 

1 Russia 10 11 8 29 

2 Switzerland 10 6 8 24 

3 Japan 9 7 1 17 

4 Sweden 6 4 7 17 

5 Austria 6 2 5 13 

6 Germany 5 7 6 18 

7 South Korea 5 3 0 8 

8 Norway 4 2 3 9 

9 China 3 3 4 10 

10 France 2 5 5 12 

11-33 Other countries 17 23 28 68 

– Mixed team 6 6 6 18 

Total countries 33 83 79 81 243 



9

SPORTS IN PERSON 

CHAMPION OF THE 2020 

YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES 


“THE LESS TIME REMAINED BEFORE THE 

GAMES, THE STRONGER WAS THE FEAR” 

A 

t the Biathlon World Championship 

in Anterselva, the Russian 

team is showing a losing 

performance. But Russian fans can look 

forward with optimism – at the Youth 

Olympics in Lausanne, the 17-year-old 

Alena Mokhova won two gold and one 

silver medals. The “Olympic Reserve” publishes 

a full version of an interview with 

the country's most promising athlete. You 

will learn: why Loginov refused to communicate 

with the media, the biathlete’s 

attitude to Bjorndalen, Alena’s prospects 

in the main team, why the athlete does 

not want to change the Krasnoyarskii Krai 

for Moscow, what mistake she made at 

the Games in Switzerland, and where she 

will celebrate her majority. 

REFERENCE: ALENA MOKHOVA, 

18 years old, born in Borodino (Krasnoyarskii Krai). 

She won two gold medals and one silver medal in 

biathlon at the Youth Olympics in Lausanne – 2020. 

YOG 2020. Individual race, 10 km: 

1. Alena Mokhova (Russia); 

2. Jeanne Richard (France); 

3. Julia Kovalevskaya (Belarus). 

– Alena, I would like to touch on 

the main biathlon topic – the World 

Championship in Italy. Alexander Loginov 

refused to communicate with the 

media until the end of the championship. 

How do you feel about such a decision? 

– I think he did it right (the interview 

was recorded on February 13 - before the 

start of the first day of the World Championship). 

I myself know how much this interferes 

- it takes a lot of energy, hurts emotionally 

and distracts from the main goal. 

– But what about the audience, will 

they wait? 

– I think that if there is a result, the audience 

will understand everything. 

– Recently, a conflict has broken 

out between the commentator Dmitry 

Guberniev and the four-time Olympic 

champion Alexander Tikhonov. In this 

dispute, which side do you take? 

– Each person has his own peculiarities; 

each has his own points of view. I 

can’t talk about this topic. Let's just say 

this is not our business. They are famous 

people, and I think that soon everything 

will calm down and it will become clear – 

who was right after all. 

– Has anyone from the main team 

already contacted with you? 

– My age does not yet allow me to enter 

the adult team. But my name is in the 

youth team and in the juniors we will try 

to break through higher. 

– If you had a call today and were 

offered to run away at the World 

Championships in Anterselva, would you 

agree, are you ready? 

– Despite the two important stages 

behind us - the Youth Olympic Games 

and the World Championships, I think 

yes. Biathlon is my life! 

– Let's get back to the very 

beginning of your career. Why did you 

choose biathlon? 

– I knew that in our city (Borodino, 

Krasnoyarskii Krai) this sport is well developed. 

I went to all leisure activity 

clubs possible. When I was seven years 

old, came to biathlon - and was drawn 

into it. 

– Before that, had you been interested 

in biathlon? 

– Sure. People from my town Olga 

Medvedtseva (two-time Olympic champion), 

Olga Romasko (three-time world 

champion) were my motivators. Besides 

I was a big fan of Olga Zaitseva. At that 

time, there was a breakthrough in the 

Russian biathlon. To tell the truth, I did 



not watch competitions so often, but I 

knew about the best biathletes. 

– Many leading Russian athletes 

eventually move to Moscow. Have you 

thought about this? 

– In fact, opinions differ. We have a 

large, well-developed region, so I have 

no strong desire to leave it. Perhaps I will 

think about it when I finish my career. 

But I doubt it. 

“Only in Russia did I understand that I 

won the Games" 

– At the Youth Olympics in 

Lausanne, you won one silver and 

two gold medals. Before the Games, 

did you think about the number of 

medals? 

– No, I didn’t. The classification for the 

Games turned out to be hard for me. In 

the end, I drew number one. Then I had 

kind of a fear - if I was lucky here, it will 

not necessarily happen there. We were 

preparing for the Olympics carefully, did 

lead-up exercises for this very start. And 

the less time remained before the Games, 

the stronger was this fear and excitement. 

But after the opening ceremony, you see 

your rivals and understand that everyone 

is strong and you are not weak either. 

– Your first gold at the Olympics 

was won in the individual race. At 

what point did you realize that you 

had won? 

– I ran in the first group, and was led 

throughout the distance and told that 

I was the leader. But there were ninety 

athletes ahead, and nothing was yet 

known. Only in Russia did I realize that I 

won the Games. 

When I stepped on a pedestal and 

From left to right: Denis Irodov, Alena 

Mokhova, Anastasia Zenova at 2020 

Youth Olympic Games 

received a medal, thoughts of the next 

race got in the way of my joy. I was very 

tired (laughs). The only thought at that 

moment was to keep going and end the 

tournament beautifully. 

– Judging by the interview immediately 

after the race, the second distance was the 

sprint, was it more difficult for you? 

– In fact, when journalists come after 

the finish, I think any athlete can say 

that it is hard to speak. If they came up 

to me two hours later, I would say other 

words. It was just a race that was run 

on fatigue. There had already been two 

distances behind, and when you run a 

sprint, you understand that you will do 

everything as usual, but emotionally 

and physically it is hard. Another thing 

was acclimatization, which fell on the 

weekend before the sprint. This made it 

clear that the mountains do not forgive 

mistakes. 

– What were the mistakes? 

– All the preparations went better 

than it was expected. The trainings were 

of top quality, we felt the professionalism 

of the trainers. But running in the mountains 

is harder. My personal mistake was 

that after the individual race there was a 

lot of fuss - doping control, interviews, 

prize-giving, and I spent little time recovering. 

This was purely my fault, no one is 

to blame. But I learned a lesson and that 

will not happen anymore. 

– In Lausanne, did you manage 

to communicate with the guys from 

other teams? 

– Sure. Especially with Italians and 

French people. 

– Was there a language barrier? 

– The first days there was, but then 

you understand that everyone around 

speaks the same language. 

– How did you like the atmosphere 

at the Games? 

– It was my first time abroad. Beside 

the festivity that the organizers created, 

the high level of competition was felt. 

You go to the start, you see the fans, you 

feel the scope of the tournament. At the 

Olympics every day was special. I think 

everything that happened there will be 

remembered for a lifetime. 

– What are your immediate plans? 

– Now I am at a training camp - I am 

preparing for the Russian championship, 

which will be held in March in Kirovo-Chepetsk. 

– Where will you be on March 6? 

– This is my birthday. I’ve been celebrating 

it at the training camp for several 

years now. Biathletes are my second family, 

so I feel really happy with them. 

BLITZ: 

Tea or coffee? Coffee. 

Holidays at sea or in the mountains? 

In the mountains. 

Sushi or pasta? Pasta. 

Running cross-country or working 

out in the gym? Cross-country. 

Shoot from a lying or standing position? 

Both. 

Who is cooler – Bjorndalen or Fourcade? 

Bjorndalen, because he is not 

only an outstanding athlete, but also 

a good person. 



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SPORT IS POSTPONED 

CANCELLED AND POSTPONED COMPETITIONS 

DUE TO CORONAVIRUS 

POSTPONED 

• y Tokyo 2020 Summer and Paralympic Games - summer 2021 

• y European Football Championship (Euro 2020) - the same dates of the summer of 2021 

• y UFC tournaments (including the Khabib- Ferguson fight) - for an indefinite period 

• y European Weightlifting Championships in Moscow - postponed for June 2020 

THE FOLLOWING CHAMPIONSHIPS WERE 

SUSPENDED: 

• y All national football championships (RPL, LaLiga, EPL, Bundesliga, Serie A, MLS, etc.) 

• y UEFA Champions League and European League 

• y All tournaments under the FIBA aegis (World Cup, European Championship, qualification for the Olympic 

Games 2020) and Euroleagues (Euroleague and Eurocup) 

• y NBA, VTB United League 

• y ATP and WTA Tournaments 

• y Volleyball: playoffs of men's and women's championships of Russia 

THE FOLLOWING CHAMPIONSHIPS 

WERE CANCELLED: 

• y Ice Hockey World Championship 

• y World Figure Skating Championships 

• y The last series of the Oslo Biathlon World Cup 

• y Series of Ski Jumping World Cup 

• y Series of the Cross-country Skiing World Cup 

• y Alpine Ski World Cup Final 

• y Women's and Men's Curling World Championships 

• y World Short Track Championship 

• y Russian Ski Championships 

• y London Olympic Boxing Qualifier 

• y All Olympic Judo Qualification Tournaments 

• y All Fencing Qualifiers 

• y The Continental Hockey League 2019/2020 season over ahead of schedule 

• y Series of Formula 1 

WIMBLEDON TENNIS TOURNAMENT CANCELLED 

*Data as of March 26, 2020 



HUSSEIN BAYSANGUROV: 

“IT’S EASIER TO MISS A BLOW IN THE HEAD THAN A STOMACHER” 

it is very painful. It’s easier to miss a blow 

in the head than a stomacher. 

– It was not a surprise for you that 

after such a start, you would win 

already in the 2nd round? 

– Physically, I felt fine, and it wasn’t so 

that he hits me now, and I need revenge. 

According to the plan, at first it was 

necessary to let him wave for nothing 

and add on in the fourth round himself, 

gradually raising the pace. But in the first 

round I had a knockdown, and I began to 

implement my plan earlier. 

At the beginning of 2020, the Russian 

boxer Hussein Baysangurov defeated a 

German boxer of Armenian decent Arman 

Torosyan in the first middleweight 

by a technical knockout, in the 2nd 

round of the championship in St. Petersburg. 

The fight took place as part of the 

show "Kings of Knockouts – 2". 

In this interview: about the knockdown 

of the future winner at the very 

beginning of the fight, about the next 

opponent and studies in Olympic Reserve 

School No. 1. 

REFERENCE: HUSSEIN BAYSANGUROV, 

25. Born in Samashki (Chechen Republic). World 

Youth Champion (2012). Professional boxing: 15 

wins in 16 fights (13 knockouts), one defeat. 

– Hussein, how was the fight for 

you? 

– In general, it was normal. The goal 

was to win ahead of schedule. So in the 

end it happened. Only in the first round 

I missed a hit. But it turned out not so 

dangerous. I don’t know if I touched the 

floor then, but the judge decided to play 

it safe and counted me a knockdown. 

This is the first knockdown in my career. 

But nothing changed of it. 

– Why did you miss the blow? 

– To be honest, as soon as I entered 

the ring, they immediately announced 

me, and a gong sounded. As a result, he 

did not manage to adapt and started the 

battle a little relaxed, but had to work remotely. 

– Maybe you underestimated the 

opponent? Before that, you had only 

one defeat in your career, and he had 

seven. 

– That certainly wasn't the thing. I 

knew that he would try to win. He is a 

striking boxer, and he had good fights 

against top boxers. I just hurried a little. 

– Did the knockdown influence the 

running of the fight? 

– There was no serious injury. Thank 

God the blow wasn’t strong, and I quickly 

managed to recover. After that, I had a 

plan to go ahead and fulfill my attacks. I 

knew that if I do it, it would hurt him. As 

a result, I managed to distract him and 

easily get him in the liver. It happens that 

I miss such strikes in training myself, and 

– Tell us about the melody to which 

you enter the ring. 

– This is a Chechen performer Isa Esambaev. 

He sings in Arabic. The Arabic 

nashid is a poetic chant. It has a religious 

format. I like the piece itself, and the words 

are beautiful. Each time I thought to play 

different melodies according to the mood 

and venue of the fighting, so that it was 

original. But in the end I thought better 

of it. Sometimes what I want to play may 

be misunderstood by someone, and Esambaev 

is an honored Artist of Chechnya. 

His works are listened to at home. There is 

nothing forbidden there. 

– Have you completely recovered 

after the battle? 

– Everything is good. Thank God there 

are no injuries. I think I’ll rest for a couple 

of days and gradually begin to train – I 

have already scheduled the next fight in 

Moscow. 



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– Is the date already known? 

– It will be at the end of April. There 

will be a stronger opponent who is higher 

in the ranking. For me, this is another 

test, and I need to pass it with dignity. 

– An opponent is not yet determined? 

– Negotiations are underway. It makes no 

sense to fight for the sake of fighting. It must 

be ratings-boosting. The task is to get into 

the top 10 according to one of the versions. 

– Did you box for the first time in St. 

Petersburg? 

– With professionals, yes, but with amateurs, 

while studying at school (Olympic 

College No. 1) for the first time I came 

with the Moscow team to the Nikolai Valuev 

tournament. There was only accommodation, 

weighing and competitions, 

so I didn’t have a chance to see the city. 

And now it was time to take a walk. 

– And what is your impression? 

– A beautiful city, there are old houses 

that are under the protection of UNES- 

CO, and they cannot be demolished. This 

is our cultural heritage. 

– How do you like performing in the 

Northern capital? 

– Everything is fine. Friends came 

from different cities. Many fellow countrymen 

came, I did not expect this. 

– You’ve recalled your studies at 

Olympic College No. 1(MSSUOR1). Do 

you often come there for a visit? 

– I recently came to trainings with 

Vagif Shirinov (Honored Coach of Russia 

Vagif Shirinov). 

– Did you give a master class to his 

students? 

– He himself will give me a master 

class. It is he who teaches me – a great 

man. We often analyze my battles. I even 

asked for a MSSUOR logo. As a result, I 

was almost left without a uniform before 

the fight with Torosyan. Just a day before 

the fight, they gave me the shorts and 

the bathrobe with the new logo. They 

had been making it for a long time since 

they wanted it to be of high quality. 

The school is my kith and kin. My 

brothers studied there. I spent 8 years 

there and also learned a lot. When Mayweather 

(the undefeated American professional 

boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr.) is 

asked about boxing, he replies: “I am boxing 

itself.” And I am the School of Olympic 

Reserve itself (laughs). Well, this is a joke. 

It is especially nice when you meet people 

there who play an important role in your 

life, who you studied with, and today they 

already work there. I’m glad the school is 

flourishing. 

OLEG MATYTSIN – 

NEW MINISTER OF SPORTS OF RUSSIA 

January 21, 2020, corresponding 

member of the Russian Academy of Education, 

the head of the International University 

Sports Federation Oleg Matytsin 

replaced the Minister of Sports of Russia 

Pavel Kolobkov. 

Matytsin is 55 years old, he was born 

in Moscow. He is Master of Sports in Table 

Tennis, Honored Coach of the Russian 

Federation. He was the rector of the 

Russian State University of Physical Culture, 

Sports, Youth and Tourism (RGUFK), 

headed the Russian Sports Student Union 

(RCCS). In 2015, he became president of 

the International University Sports Federation 

(FISU). During his administration, 

Russia received the right to host the Universiades 

in Krasnoyarsk-2019 and Yekaterinburg-2023. 

Oleg Matytsin is Doctor of 

Pedagogical Sciences, professor. 

Photo: website FISU 


BAIKAL RACE: 

SKATER VERSUS MOTORCYCLIST, 

NIGHT MARATHON 

AND SWIMSUIT RACES 

T 

his time we will take you to 

Siberia to the turquoise ice of 

the Lake Baikal. This article is 

about a competition which is held not 

for the sake of victory and speed records, 

in a place far from civilization. 

CORONAVIRUS 

IS NOT A HINDRANCE 

FOR THE START 

“ICE PALACE BAIKAL“ 

In Irkutsk, the indoor “Baikal” ice complex 

is to open for bandy and speed 

skating. The palace is being built for 

the World Bandy Championship, which 

starts in late March, and in April skaters 

will step onto the fourth largest indoor 

ice rink in Russia. But nothing can compare 

with a run across the real Baikal – 

the largest and cleanest lake on the 

planet. 

“Open skating rinks are energetically 

much stronger. It is on them that 

athletes emotionally recharge. Now 

ISU (International Union of Skaters) realizes 

that open skating rinks and lakes 

are the origin of speed skating, and 

more frequently puts open-air competitions 

in the calendar”, says Ivan 

Dyakov, international master of sports 

in ice skating, founder of the Skating. 

global project. 

IVAN DYAKOV ON LAKE 

BAIKAL 

This year, at the beginning of spring, 

two outstanding events took place on 

the lake at a time – “The Baikal Marathon” 

and “The Baikal Mile”. 

Marathons along rivers and canals 

have long been held in Europe. The bravest 

athletes go to the start of the royal 

distance – 200 km. This is a real challenge 

– 8 hours of almost continuous run 

in the skating posture. 

For the eighth time, the marathon 

on Lake Baikal gathered lovers to glide 

along the water surface. This year, the 

traditional races might not have taken 

place – at first the local Ministry of Health 

banned their holding, but then still gave 

the green light. To tell the truth, because 

of the coronavirus epidemic, foreign 

skaters did not take part in the competitions. 

Previously, “troops” from the Netherlands, 

Germany, Belgium, Kazakhstan, 

Belarus and Ukraine landed on the ice of 

the lake. 

“We draw the attention of foreigners 

to this launch. He has been on the ISU 

calendar for two years now. But we do 

not focus on professional sports. It’s important 

for us to promote mass skating ”, 

says Dyakov. 



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PREPARATION 

A week before the competition, KamAZ 

trucks come out on the ice of the 

lake, which at the beginning of spring 

reaches a thickness of 1.5 meters, to clear 

the surface of Lake Baikal from snow. The 

local Ministry of Emergencies also helps 

in this. But what about the many cracks 

that are inevitable on lake ice? “Initially, 

I come and watch the ice rise. There are 

earthquakes – it can crack and break. 

For these purposes, we ourselves fixed a 

carpet and an irrigation pipe at the rear 

side of the car. Water comes out of the 

pipe, and the carpet evenly distributes 

it on the ice surface. In some places, we 

covered up the cracks. To do this, snow 

was thinned with water and cracks were 

sealed with the help of a spatula. And if 

there were cones somewhere, then they 

were heated with a heat gun”, explains 

Inna Bezryadina, the main organizer of 

the Open International Speed Skating 

Baikal Marathon. 

INNA BEZRYADINA 

Much in the preparation of the route 

depends on weather conditions. Previously, 

the marathon was held in mid-March, 

but due to global warming, the dates 

shifted to late February – early March. 

The entire organization of the competition 

is based on the enthusiasm of local 

skaters with minimal funding. 

Just a kilometer from the competition 

there is a federal crossing from the 

mainland to the island of Olkhon, on 

which cars drive. On ice, a regular route 

is marked. But its efficiency is low – several 

cars per day. The route of the competition 

is laid with signal landmarks 

installed at a distance of 50 meters from 

each other, which are frozen into ice. 

START 

The Baikal Marathon lasts 3 days. The 

first race which takes place at night is a 

preparation for the main marathon. Children 

from 3 years old and adults come to it. 

The oldest participants are over 80. Among 

the athletes there is the legendary old lady 

Lyuba (Lyubov Morekhodova). She puts on 

1943 skates, which she ties to boots. This 

year, the administration of the Olkhon district 

came to old lady Lyuba, but she was ill 

and did not participate in the race. 

The start of the night marathon is given 

late in the evening. Participants are 

guided by the lanterns on stands and 

personal flashlights on the caps. Short 

distances for kids are 100 meters, for 

adults - 5 km. 

The next day the most joyous race of 

the tournament is held – a swimsuit race. 

Here, entire families run a 500 m race 

holding hands. Many fly from other cities 

to take part in this race. 

In the main part, athletes run distances 

to choose from. Amateurs - 5 and 10 

km, professionals – 25 and 50 km. If the 

participants wish, they can run races of 

100 and even 200 km. 

This year the circle was 5 km. But the 

organizers say that if the track allows, 

then you can stretch the oval to 25. 

For the participants of the tournament 

and spectators, yurtas are set up 

for changing clothes and heating. Field 

kitchen is installed. And already on 

the route of the skaters, there are food 

points – you can have a snack and drink 

hot tea. 

On the third day, participants of the 

marathon can take their time to enjoy 

the wildlife of Lake Baikal. 

“I tell everyone not to rush, to stay after 

the marathon for a few more days to 

see our lake. It's free. We order a car and 

drive to the hot springs – this is the other 

side of Lake Baikal. If the weather allows, 

18 km we go along Olkhon to the island 

of Ogoy on skates. On the way there are 

many beautiful ice grottoes. Shamans 

live on the island of Olkhon, and llamas 

live on Ogoe. There is already Buddhism. 

We have Shamanka (Cape Burkhan) – a 

very interesting rock. It depicts a natural 

drawing in the form of a dragon. Shamans 

once lived in this cave”, says Inna 

Bezryadina. 

CAPE BURHAN 

(ROCK SHAMANKA) 

“If Genghis Khan’s blood is washed by 

Baikal water, then he will be resurrected,” 

the legend says. According to the legend, 

it was in this place that the great 

khan was buried. 

If you want to join the lucky ones who 

will run across Baikal next year, then you 


need 5 things: make a health certificate, 

arrange insurance, fill in a form on the 

Baikal Marathon website, sharpen skates 

and buy a ticket to Irkutsk. 

“Baikal has special energy, but the infrastructure 

is poorly developed. Mass 

events are difficult to conduct here. But 

this is a matter of balance – as soon as 

there is a developed infrastructure, then, 

as a rule, nature begins to suffer”, said 

Ivan Dyakov. 

AERO BOAT, 

SCOOTERS WITH 

A SIDE CAR 

AND A SKATER 

If at the Baikal Marathon the main 

thing is not victory, but overcoming 

yourself, the festival of speed Baikal Mile 

is both overcoming yourself and breaking 

records. An analogue of the famous 

races on the salty American lake Bonneville 

is held on the other side of the lake – 

in the village of Maksimikha (233 km 

from Ulan-Ude). 

This year, in addition to auto and motorcycle 

equipment, the following were 

added: buggies, snowmobiles, scooters 

with a sidecar, motorbikes, snow bikes, 

electric carts, a helicopter and even an 

aero boat. Among the 110 owners of the 

iron monsters stood out the multiple 

winner of the World Ice Skating Championship 

Dmitry Lobkov. 

“It was interesting what my body 

was capable of 5 years after the end of 

my professional career. A month before 

the trip, I began to train several times a 

week – he did physical fitness exercises 

and came to the ice of Krylatskoe. He 

trained in skating, checked speed. As a 

result, I made a flying lap (400 m) in 25.5 

seconds”, says Lobkov. 

DMITRY LOBKOV 

In 2018, the Olympic champion in ice 

skating, the Dutchman Kjeld Nuis set the 

world record for speed skating on natural ice 

in Sweden – 93 km/h. For comparison, the 

maximum speed of a skater on a closed ice 

rink with perfectly even ice reaches 60 km/h. 

Then, Nuis glided over rather even, 

cleared ice. Dmitry Lobkov fought with 

time in harsh Siberian conditions. 

“I did not run on ice, but practically on 

snow. Ice was not conditioned. In front of 

me was a weather balloon. Studded motorcyclists 

had already flown before me, 

plus there were big cracks. I nearly failed 

several times. It was minus 20 degrees 

outside. So we all felt the full program 

(laughs)”, says the skater. 

This year, for one mile (1600 m), the 

motorcycle managed to accelerate to 

262 km/h, cars – to 235 km/h. 

“When you glide on Lake Baikal – 

these are inexpressible emotions. Even 

despite the humpy ice. Next year we will 

be back and want to drive even faster. 

There is an idea to start parallel with a 

motorcyclist”, says Lobkov, without disclosing 

his result (it will be known a little 

later, after the release of the official video 

of the festival). 

Recently, many Russians have been 

worried about the future of the deepest 

lake in the world. Participants of the Baikal 

Mile pay an environmental fee and 

undergo technical inspection before the 

races. 

The ice skating marathon and the 

speed festival show not only love for the 

Siberian nature, but also draw attention 

to the environmental problem of the region, 

for which it is important to preserve 

the unique ecosystem of Lake Baikal. 

PoKatit Blog Article (Sports.ru) 

Photo: irkutskmedia, Andrey Grebnev, 

Schatsfotos, Red Bull, personal archive of 

Inna Bezryadina and Ivan Dyakov. 



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ALAN ABAEV: 

“IN 2024, THE WORLD GYMNASIADE 

WILL BE HELD IN RUSSIA.” 

In October, the Seventh All-Russia 

Gymnasiade took place in Orel, with 

2500 participants from 53 regions. We interviewed 

Alan Abaev, Chairman of the 

Public-State Sports and Fitness Association 

“Youth of Russia“, who spoke about 

the state of amateur sports in the country, 

about new projects and why it is so 

important to give a chance not only to 

champions. 

REFERENCE: ALL-RUSSIA GYMNASIADE 

is part of the World Gymnasiade held by the 

International School Sports Federation (ISF). The 

tournament takes place once every two years and 

amateur athletes from 14 to 18 years old take 

part in it. The XVII 2018 World Gymnasiade in 

Marrakesh hosted more than 4 thousand athletes 

from 70 countries of the world. 

Alan Abaev was born in Ordzhonikidze 

(Vladikavkaz), he is master of sports in 

freestyle wrestling, winner of the USSR 

Cup in the weight category up to 90 kg, 

Honoured Coach of Russia, Doctor of 

Pedagogical Sciences, Chairman of the 

All-Russia Sports and Fitness Association 

“Youth of Russia”. 

REFERENCE: THE “YOUTH OF RUSSIA” 

is the successor to the All-Union Voluntary Sports 

Society “Labor Reserves” created in 1943 for the 

professional training of young industrial workers. 

In 1992, after the collapse of the USSR, the society 

was closed down. The organization was revived 

under the title “Youth of Russia”. The charter of the 

company has also undergone changes. 

“THERE ARE A LOT 

OF QUESTIONS 

CONCERNING 

FINANCING.” 

“Our guys are those who do not 

qualify for the regional teams. We give 

a wider circle of people a chance to participate 

in European and world championships 

and other international competitions. 

They do not have to become 

great athletes, but this is a real chance 

for the young people. They have the 

opportunity to make friends abroad, 

to learn the culture of other countries”, 

says Abaev. 

– In which regions is school sport 

best developed? 

– This is, first of all, the Orel region, 

Chelyabinsk. At the All-Russia Gymnasiade, 

it is important to have the maximum 

number of participants in all sports in order 

to win more points in the team event. 

– What prevents other cities 

from performing as well as Orel and 

Chelyabinsk? 

– There are many questions concerning 

financing. The Ministry of Sports 

and the “Youth of Russia” accomplish it 

through the Ministry of Education. All 

the money goes to the organization, 

meanwhile the regions send their athletes 

at their own expense. I would like to 

change the situation and there is already 

a positive trend in this direction. We are 

looking for sponsors who will help with 

the financing of the trips. Today we discuss 

this question with the Ministry of 

Education, we had a meeting with the 

Executive Office of the President. The 

country has set the task to develop 

school sports. The main thing is to get 

publicity, to engage the media and to 

raise interest among young people. 

– How will they know about you 

now? 

– We have accounts in social media 

networks, a website and a magazine. In 

70 regions there are our associations in 

which representatives of the “Youth of 

Russia” work. 

“WE MADE OREL A SPORTS 

CITY” 

– The program of the All-Russia 

Gymnasiade includes 15 sports, and 7 

of them are martial arts. Why is there 

such an emphasis? 

– In Russia, martial arts are traditionally 

developed. For the first time, we 

included some sports in Orel into the 

program at the request of the federations. 

Our organization develops not 

only Olympic events. By the way, at the 



World Gymnasiade, the host country can 

include up to four sports that are best 

developed there. 

– How do the Youth Olympic Games 

differ from the Gymnasiade? 

– Youth Games are for young athletes 

from the national team. Winners and 

prize-winners of the Russian championships 

are selected for this start. But there 

are those who closely follow, and we give 

them an opportunity to show themselves. 

There are many such athletes. They should 

not be left without starts for the whole year. 

– What does the “Youth of Russia” 

do besides organizing competitions? 

– We are the only organization in the 

country that has such a status. We have a 

broad mandate, great opportunities, but 

we are limited in financing. 

– Is participation in tournaments 

under the authority of your 

organization an opportunity to get 

into professional sports? 

– This is amateur sport. Athletes can 

travel abroad to win medals. But sometimes 

they become members of national 

teams in various sports. 

– How can one define the goal of 

amateur sports? 

– The task was set to involve 55 percent 

of people in the country in sports. 

Our aim is to contribute to this. 

– Do you give prizes at your 

tournaments? 

– No, we are trying to get away from 

this. You can make a gift to a child so that 

he can then show this memorabilia to his 

children. 

– Do you have an entry fee for 

participating in tournaments? 

– No, we don’t take money. The international 

forum “Russia is a Sports 

Power” has just taken place (October 

2019 in Nizhny Novgorod, editorial 

comment). On the initiative of the 

“Youth of Russia”, the President of the 

International School Sports Federation 

Laurent Petrinka was invited. At a 

meeting with Vladimir Putin, they discussed 

the holding of a Gymnasiade in 

Russia in 2024. And the Russian leader 

assured him that we will hold the tournament 

at a high level. 

– What are future plans of the 

"Youth of Russia"? 

– Last year, we successfully held the 

World Sambo Championship in Orel 

for the first time. In July 2020, Sochi 

will host the World Championships in 

Dance Sport and Acrobatic Rock and 

Roll. Two European Championships 

will be held in Orel – table tennis and 

volleyball. 

– So, Orel is a sports city. 

– We’ve made it a sports city. There are 

six large gyms their. They are universal – 

you can hold tournaments in various 

sports. 

“I WORK 18 HOURS A 

DAY” 

– How did you come to the post of 

Chairman of the Sports and Physical 

Culture Association “Youth of Russia”? 

– I came to work in the Moscow district 

regional branch of the organization 

twelve years ago. For five years I was 

deputy and for three years now I have 

been leading the “Youth of Russia”. I work 

18 hours a day. I just get some sleep and 

start working again. 

– In sport, you represent freestyle 

wrestling. 

– Yes, from the age of 10 I was engaged 

in freestyle wrestling. Then I was 

invited from my hometown to Moscow 

(Alan was born in Ordzhonikidze (Vladikavkaz) 

editorial comment). And I 

started playing for the CSKA. Since then 

I have been living in the capital. Now my 

son is 14 years old and he is studying at 

Olympic College No. 1. 

– What would you wish your son 

and other school athletes? 

– To set the goals and pursue them. 

And to regard their teachers and coaches 

only as helpers. There are times when 

the student does not understand the 

teacher. In such a situation, you need to 

be patient. 



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RUSSIAN WRESTLERS WON 22 MEDALS 

AT THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP IN ROME 

T 

he Russian team won 9 gold 

medals at the European 

Championships in Freestyle, 

Greco-Roman and Women's Wrestling in 

Rome. 

In total, the team has 22 awards – 9 

gold, 6 silver and 7 bronze. The second 

place was taken by the Bulgarian team 

(3–2–1), the third – the team of Belarus 

(3–1–4). 

Gold medals were brought to the 

country by freestyle wrestlers Azamat 

Tuskayev (weight category up to 57 kg), 

Alexander Bogomoev (up to 61 kg), Kurban 

Shiraev (up to 65 kg), Arthur Nay- 

fonov (up to 86 kg) and Abdulrashid 

Sadulaev (up to 97 kg), and also Olga 

Khoroshavtseva (up to 55 kg), Khanum 

Velieva (up to 68 kg), Natalya Vorobyeva 

(up to 72 kg) and Ekaterina Bukina (up to 

76 kg). 

Silver awards were won by representatives 

of the freestyle Magomedrasul 

Gazimagomedov (up to 74 kg) and 

Magomed Ramazanov (up to 79 kg). In 

Greco-Roman wrestling, Vitaly Kabaloev 

(up to 55 kg), Ibragim Labazanov 

(up to 63 kg) and Nazir Abdullaev (up 

to 67 kg) became the second. Among 

women, Inna Trazhukova (up to 62 kg) 

climbed to the second step of the pedestal. 

The third place in freestyle wrestling 

competitions was taken by Baldan 

Tsyzhipov (up to 125 kg), and Greco-Roman 

Alexander Komarov (up to 87 kg) 

and Alexander Golovin (up to 97 kg). 

Women won the bronze medal of Milan 

Dadashev (up to 50 kg), Stalvire Orshush 

(up to 53 kg), Lyubov Ovcharova 

(up to 59 kg) and Maria Kuznetsova (up 

to 65 kg). 

The European Championship was 

held in Italian Rome from February 10 

to 16. 

Natalya Vorobyova 

Photo: Wrestling Federation of the 

Russian Federation 



BILAL MAKHOV: 

“I MYSELF WANTED TO PLAY THE PIANO AND 

COULD PLAY A PIECE, SO THAT IT SOUNDED GOOD” 

T 

hree-time World freestyle wrestling 

champion Bilyal Makhov 

told the Olympic Reserve 

about his return to sport and about his 

thorny path to the top. 

REFERENCE: BILYAL MAKHOV, 

32 years. Born in Nalchik. Height: 196 cm; 

weight: up to 120 kg. 3-time World champion, 

European champion, silver medalist in the 

heavyweight freestyle wrestling Olympics. 

– Bilyal, how do you feel? How do 

you evaluate your physical form at the 

moment? 

– I feel good, there are no big problems 

now, I am preparing for the next 

starts without haste. So far, I do not need 

to be in my best physical shape, so I consider 

my condition sufficient. 

– You returned to the mat in early 

August, after a long break. Was it difficult 

emotionally to perform in Poland? 

– I will not say it was difficult emotionally, 

because it is an usual competitive 

state that cannot be forgotten so quickly 

and easily, no matter how long the break 

was, it was more difficult to navigate in 

the new circumstances, to listen to yourself, 

you would lead the body itself in a 

particular situation, to understand what 

to add, and what to diminish. So the 

approach in this tournament was more 

observant, in order to understand how 

to proceed, as you said, after such a long 

break. 

– Did you feel support at the tournament? 

– First of all, I felt an increased interest 

because of my return, but as for support, 

the tournament was held in Poland and 

was not so big as to arouse great interest 

among the Russian audience. 

– They met me very cordially, someone 

was surprised, someone was delighted, 

they came, asked what goals 

and objectives I set for myself, because 

many thought that I had finished my career 

and simply did not expect to see me. 

So the reaction was different, but mostly 

positive. 

– You were cautious, having finished 

after 3 fights. If you had taken 

care of your health, would serious injuries 

be avoided? 

– You know, sport is a complicated 

and unpredictable thing, so it’s hard 

to say whether it would have been 

possible or not. When you are no longer 

a young guy, not a beginner and 

have already done a lot in sport, then 

you approach everything wisely, let's 

say, from a scientific point of view. And 

since there was no reason to fight in the 

finals, the main thing I needed was to 

check my strength, look at the physical 

and psychological reaction of the body. 

I felt all this, and there was no point in 

going further, although I was in great 

shape and physically had no problems 

finishing the tournament. But, since all 

the goals and objectives for this tournament 

were achieved, we did not 

force events and decided to save our 

strength. 

– When you went to Israel for a surgery, 

were there thoughts that a professional 

career could end then? 

Of course, there were such thoughts, 

and doctors said that most likely I would 

have to quit doing sport, because the injury 

was severe enough and was incompatible 

with heavy workouts. But I didn’t 

think much about it, because for me the 

main task was to recover myself so that 

nothing would bother. So that if I had 

to leave the sport, then leave it without 

bad memories, let's say, without bad aftertaste. 

And only then, in the recovery 

process, new goals and objectives appeared, 

when I saw that the rehabilitation 

was going very well, and, so to say, 

I got into the excitement and decided to 

try myself again in professional sport. 



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– How difficult was it for you without 

starts, how did you relieve tension? 

– Such nervous tension appears when 

you do nothing, when you leave sport 

and don’t know where to go and how to 

realize yourself. I had a plan to recover, 

and gradually this plan began to expand, 

so I did not have time to think about 

the lack of starts. That is, before I was focused 

on trainings and training camps, 

and in this situation I simply reoriented 

myself towards restoring my health. Well, 

of course, it was not without the support 

of my family, friends, coaches, athletes - 

they all were ready to help. 

– Is it true that you play the piano? 

– To be honest, I have not played 

for a long time and I’m unlikely to play 

anything right away, but if I take notes, I 

think I can play. And, yes, there had been 

such a period in life. My mother, a person 

who is very creative, and of course 

she loved everything connected with 

this. And once a music teacher told her: 

"Never make your son play the piano, 

let him better be engaged in wrestling." 

Then I saw a frustration in my mother’s 

eyes that her musical ear had allegedly 

not been transmitted to me, and I myself 

expressed a desire to play the piano, 

and reached the level that I could play 

a piece so that people around were ok 

with it (smiles). Mom was satisfied that 

the music teacher was wrong. 

– When the Georgian wrestler was 

disqualified, a silver medal passed to 

you, what were your emotions? 

– I would say the emotions you get 

from victory are not comparable with 

anything! As for such situations, some 

medals come to us, some leave, it 

sometimes happens in sport. But still, 

I will always feel like a bronze medalist, 

as I stood there in the 3rd place. 

Whether I was defeated fair or unfair - 

this is another thing, and to tell you the 

truth, it doesn’t matter now, because 

when we went out on the mat, we were 

in equal conditions. If it turned out that 

he was able to do some things to defeat 

me, then it turns out he was somehow 

more cunning, somewhere sportier, 

more insidious, and he succeeded. 

Therefore, to justify my defeat by the 

fact that he took something, and I was 

weaker, I cannot do it, because I was 

well prepared to compete with him at 

the proper level and could even win. 

But it turned out the way it happened, 

and we accepted the result that we got. 

As I already said, after the Olympics it 

doesn’t really matter. Even if they gave 

me gold, the emotions that you experience 

when you climb the podium cannot 

be compared with anything. Years 

of training, diligence, adherence to the 

regime and hard work on yourself - all 

this you do for the sake of one minute, 

the moment when the referee raises 

your hand. 

– After the London Olympics, you 

switched from Freestyle to Greco-Roman, 

why did you make such decision? 

– My style of wrestling, in all, is fundamentally 

based on the Greco-Roman 

style, since I wrestle a lot with 



my hands. Plus, after London I was injured, 

and when I recovered, I went to 

the first training camp not with freestyle 

wrestlers, but with the Grecj-Roman 

team. And at that period, I would 

not say that in heavy weight in Greco-Roman 

there were weak athletes, 

but they most likely were not motivated 

enough to force themselves to 

train hard enough in order to compete 

at international competitions. Well, 

the head coach at that time, noticed 

me at the training camp, my good 

shape, saw that I can keep the internal 

competition at a decent level, and 

took me to the World championship. 

At first it was not easy, but from bout 

to bout, I got involved and ended up 

with prizes. Then there were a few 

more successful major tournaments. 

Probably, it was a coaching technique 

to motivate athletes: an athlete who 

came from Freestyle wrestling wins 

the competition. 

– As a junior, would you like to 

study at the Moscow College of Olympic 

Reserve №1? 

– Sure. Being a junior, being in such 

conditions is a huge reserve for the future. 

They have everything an athlete 

needs: trainings, meals, accommodation, 

studies, high-level coaches, all in 

one place. The only thing a growing 

athlete must do is to set goals and objectives 

and strive to them using all of 

the above. 

– What are the most necessary recovery 

procedures for you? 

– The most basic and most important 

things are regular meals and healthy 

sleep. And, of course, there are accompanying 

procedures, such as massage, 

baths, recovery exercises for muscles 

and ligaments, which are necessary for 

every athlete. 

– What would you wish to the students 

of the Moscow College of Olympic 

Reserve №1 and all young athletes? 

First of all, I would like to wish not 

to be lazy, to have a responsible approach 

to everything that they encounter 

at school, to respect those 

people who invest their time, their experience 

and their emotions in them, 

these are teachers and coaches, who 

often spend more time with them than 

with their own families. So that they 

appreciate all this and in the future use 

it properly in their life. 



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OLYMPIC CHAMPION 

DENIS KRIVOSHLYKOV: 

“THERE WERE SPRAINS, BROKEN ARMS, RIBS, 

BUT GOD SAVED ME FROM SEVERE INJURIES” 

O 

n Sunday, January 23, the European 

Handball Championship 

will end in Stockholm. The 

Olympic champion Denis Krivoshlykov 

spoke about the future gold medalist, 

the failure of the Russian national team 

and the star team of the 2000 model. 

REFERENCE: DENIS KRIVOSHLYKOV, 

48 years old. Born in Moscow. Height: 182 cm; 

weight: 77 kg. Clubs: CSKA, CSKA SportAcademclub, 

Ademar Leon (Spain). Olympic champion (2000), 

World champion (1997), European champion (1996) 

in handball. 

– Denis, in your opinion, who can 

win the European Championship this 

year? 

– I think the finals will be Spain and 

Norway. The Norwegians have an organized 

team, but the Spaniards are 

stronger. There is such a belief in handball: 

when someone wins the European 

Championship, the Olympic tournament 

fails in the same season, and I would really 

like Spain to win gold in Tokyo. I still 

played in this country, and there are very 

strong players. 

– Russia lost all three matches and 

was kicked out of the championship. 

Now the team will miss the Olympics 

for the third time in a row. How is this 

possible? 

– The national team had the task 

to perform well in the tournament. 

It is clear that it was difficult to win 

medals. But you had to take the 

highest possible place to get into 

the qualification Olympic tournament 

for selection for the Games in 

Tokyo 2020. 

There is only one reason for this failure 

– this is the class of our players. Yes, 

we have those who won the Champions 

League. But we still don’t have enough 

experience and skills. This is not to say 

that our guys do not want to play. In 

this situation, they did everything they 

could. You need to start with children's 

sports, you need to grow handball players. 

– Your generation has accustomed 

us to medals, and now we 

cannot even qualify for the Olympics. 

– The level of our championship 

did not become European. Therefore, 

the level of material support is also 

lagging. At the Sydney Olympics, fourteen 

of our fifteen handball players 

from our national team played in foreign 

clubs. Only I played for CSKA, in 

which everything suited me. Now they 

are training in a more gentle mode. We 

were not the most technical, but many 

exceeded in physics, as we trained 

three times a day. 

After the collapse of the USSR, we 

lost a lot, and now there is a restoration 

of youth sport. This may take more than 

one Olympic cycle. 



– Now you are just engaged in the 

education of youth. 

– Yes, I lead a project called ”Lesson 

with a Champion” at the Center for Patriotic 

Education and School Sports. Our 

direction is the additional motivation of 

school-age children for physical education, 

expanding their horizons in sports 

and physical education. We know very 

well that in order for our children to 

grow up healthy, happy and purposeful, 

we need to help, guide and motivate 

them. A healthy and strong generation is 

the main objective of our project. 

– Do you have time to keep fit? 

– Last year, I even played in the Moscow 

Veteran Championship. Although 

I would not call it that, because both 

young players and experienced athletes 

of different levels gather there. I regularly 

visit CSKA, since I played for this club 

for a long time. 

– Is it difficult to compete with 

young players? 

– I would not say that there are any 

difficulties. Although the guys are capable, 

purposeful, arrogant in a sporting 

way. Sometimes strikes even arrive, 

but, of course, not on purpose. On the 

contrary, young athletes are pleased to 

play with former pros – here they gain 

experience. They even carefully watch us 

warming up before the match. I would 

like to give an advice – always look at 

famous athletes and try to take the best 

from them. 

– Will you play in this tournament 

this season too? 

– Everything will depend on the 

availability of time. Our projects require 

a lot of employment. It is also 

with great pleasure that I share my 

experience with young athletes in my 

master classes. The younger generation 

must see examples in order to set 

goals for themselves and achieve their 

implementations. 

– You said that “blows sometimes 

come” from opponents. This happens 

even on an amateur level. Have you 

had any serious injuries during your 

professional career? 

– There were sprains, broken arms, 

ribs, but there are injuries much more 

serious. God saved me from serious injuries. 

I was lucky in this regard. Handball 

is a rather traumatic sport – sprains, 

tendon ruptures, fractures, bruises, menisci. 

We always try to inform about this 

both the children themselves and their 

parents. If the parents were somehow 

connected with professional sports, 

then they understand this, but if not, 

then we need to inform them that injuries 

often occur in sports, and we must 

be prepared for this. 

– You played in Spain. Is European 

handball different from Russian? 

– Sometimes people have the opinion 

that athletes go abroad in search of 

better life. This is actually not my case. 

Many leave to keep themselves in better 

physical shape. This is especially 

true for those who support the national 

team. When I left, the Spanish and German 

leagues were considered, and still 

are, the best leagues in the world. To become 

the best, you must compete with 

the best. 

– What was your day routine when 

you achieved the main victories? What 

can you recommend to young athletes? 

– The regime is a proper nutrition, 

healthy sleep, timely rest. But, of course, 

it all depends on the athlete himself - everyone 

has a different body. However, 

there are general advices from doctors 

and nutritionists that are generally relevant 

to all athletes. Do not eat three 

hours before the start, go to bed on time, 

do recovery massages. A team is a large 

association of people who together go 

towards a victorious goal. 

– What would you like to wish the 

athletes of the Moscow College of 

Olympic Reserve №1? 

– I would like to wish all the young 

athletes: set goals and objectives, do not 

forget about the importance of being a 

professional, and victory will definitely 

come to you! 



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Olympic medals 

(2008, 2012) 

KOBE BRYANT 

CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS 

January 26, 2020 

died in a plane crash 

legendary NBA player 

Kobe Bryant 

SEASONS 

for the Los Angeles Lakers 

If you focus on small goals 

on this difficult path, you will 

gain an understanding of the 

beauty of the struggle for 

seemingly simple things. 

After all, before the injury, 

they were all taken for 

granted. 

When you return, you will 

face new perspectives. 

NBA Championships 

(2000, 2001, 2002, 2009, 2010) 

I cannot deal with lazy people. We do not 

speak the same language. 

I do not understand them. 

I refuse to understand them. 

The moment you surrender is the 

moment you let someone else win. 

Sport is a great teacher. 

He taught me a lot: the spirit 

of camaraderie, humility, 

how to resolve disagreements. 

GAMES 

POINTS 

make him 4th in history 

Karim Abdul-Jabbar (38,387) 

Karl Malone (36,928) 

LeBron James (34 087) 

Kobe Bryant (33,643) 

Michael Jordan (32,292) 

26 ОЛИМПИЙСКИЙ РЕЗЕРВ 5/2020

ARTHUR BETERBIEV: 

“IF YOU ARE ALEXANDER THE GREAT, 

THEN I AM KING ARTHUR AND I HAVE 

ALSO COME TO WIN” 

In October, a graduate of Moscow 

Olympic College No. 1, Arthur Beterbiev, 

who trained with the honored trainer of 

Russia Vagif Shirinov, became the WBC 

world champion. In the title fight, which 

took place in Philadelphia, he defeated 

the Ukrainian Alexander Gvozdik in the 

10th round by technical knockout. Beterbiev 

became the fifth Russian boxer 

in history, who managed to combine the 

titles. The athlete also owns an IBF belt. 

We talked with Arthur about the duel of 

views, psychological preparation for the 

fight and critical comments by Vasily Lomachenko, 

the tragedy of Maxim Dadashev, 

which of the belts the boxer likes 

most, his day routine and why he does 

not want his son to do boxing. 

REFERENCE: ARTHUR BETERBIEV, 

34 years old, was born in Khasavyurt (Dagestan). 

World champion, two-time European champion. 

Professional career - IBF and WBC world light 

heavyweight champion. Undefeated Champion - 15 

KO wins in 15 fights. Nickname: White Puncher, Wolf. 

– You are in Moscow now. How do 

you spend your time? 

– This is the pleasant part of my job 

– I come home, give interviews, meet 

friends, fans. Home, sweet home. 

– Are you training right now? 

– I train every other day. My coach 

told me to rest more. Now there is no aim 

to be at the peak of my form. The most 

important thing is that by the next start 

I will recover well, and there will be a desire 

to enter the boxing ring again. 

– 10 years after the fight among 

amateurs, you met with Alexander 

Gvozdik in a professional boxing ring. 

The two undefeated world champions 

make impressing billboards. Did you 

feel the tension pumped up by the 

promoters before the fight? 

– I've heard an expression: "To defeat 

for the second time the person you won 

once in your life is twice as difficult.” The 

opponent has fear of losing again, and 

he is more seriously prepared to the 

fight, he has more motivation. I did the 

– You became the fifth Russian boxer 

who managed to combine the titles 

in different versions. Did you immedisame 

and tuned to the fight with maximum 

motivation. I deceived everyone 

and myself (laughs). 

– What did you see in the eyes of 

the opponent during the weigh-in? 

– Many told me that he lost the duel 

of views. But I did not focus on this. Maybe 

that was his tactic, and he wanted to 

pretend to be a wolf in sheep's clothing. 

– Do you usually watch silently? 

– Usually yes, but if the opponent 

provokes me, I answer. Once in America 

there was a fight with Alexander Johnson. 

During the press conference he 

says: ”I am Alexander the Great and came 

here to win.” I took a microphone and answered: 

“If you are Alexander the Great, 

then I am King Arthur and I also came to 

win.” The whole audience laughed, and 

after a pause I added: “As for King Arthur, 

this is a joke, but as for victory, this is 

true.” 

– How was the fight for you? 

– I can say that it was according to the 

scenario. We had several action plans. 

It was important for us what Gvozdik 

would offer, what he would start with. 

There was a plan to gently start with a 

jab from the first round, from the first 

hand, to keep him busy so that he would 

not have time to think about anything. I 

tried to follow the instructions from my 


team angle. It is always easier to do so 

than to invent something myself. 

– There were some not quite clear 

refereeing decisions. Three times Alexander 

fell, but the score was not 

open. 

– There are questions to the referees. 

We will return to this question when I fly 

to Canada. 

– They say that in the referee's 

notes, Gvozdik was given more points. 

How can this be, you were in the lead, 

weren't you? 

– I was shocked when I found it out. 

But if you win ahead of time, and they 

raise your hand, then after that you don’t 

think of it any more. 

– Vasily Lomachenko said that it 

was not you who won the fight, but it 

was Gvozdik who lost. Did you feel offended 

to hear that? 

– (Laughs.) I didn’t even hear him 

say that. Boxers are interesting people, 

sometimes they say nonsense. He is a 

good boxer, I guess. Doctors are not offended 

by their patients. Anyway, they 

are somehow trying to help them. So I 

will not be offended by the boxer. 



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ately realize what you had done? 

– Of course not. I just found out about 

this from you. I am pleased to know that, 

but it wasn’t my goal. 

– When, after the triumph, you arrived 

at Domodedovo Airport and saw 

how many people were meeting you, 

what emotions did you have? 

– When I was going to fly to Moscow, I 

told only three people, and it was nice to 

see so many people at the airport. It's nice 

that they came from the Moscow College 

of Olympic Reserve №1 to support me. The 

college gave me a lot - discipline, education. 

I grew up in the Caucasus, in a society 

with different mentality. During the time 

spent in Moscow, much has been changed 

for me in a positive way. In Moscow Olympic 

College, I somehow started studying 

and training better. I remember that if we 

talked on the phone at night – they took it 

away. If you were caught twice, there could 

be a reprimand. This is not a dictatorship, 

these are just hints for an athlete to understand 

what he is doing wrong. 

“THERE WERE COURTS, 

AND WHEN I JUST 

STEPPED INTO THE 

BOXING RING, I 

REALIZED THAT I HAD A 

CHAMPION FIGHT” 

– Your main rewards. How much 

does the last belt you have won weigh? 

Honestly, I don’t know. This is a green 

belt – it is considered prestigious in the 

WBC (holds in hands). In fact, both green 

and red are my colors. 

– Does this belt turn out to be a challenge 

award, or will it remain with you? 

– My belt remains with me. For example, 

Gvozdik lost the fight and lost 

the status. He will have the old belt as a 

memory, and another belt is being prepared 

for the new champion. 

– But this belt is a little different (we 

turn to the belt according to IBF). 

– Yes, there is a bird and gloves on it. Interesting 

one. This is my first trophy. I like 

it better. This belt has very strict rules. At 

IBF, on the second day after weighing, you 

cannot be heavier than 5 kg. This version 

requires you to defend the title every year. 

– Which of these belts did you get 

the hardest? 

– This one (points to red). I was involved 

in two trials – with a promoter and 

manager. I had to fire them, they did not 

comply with the terms of the contract. 

When I just stepped into the boxing ring, I 

realized that a champion fight began. 

– Where do you store the belts in 

your apartment? 

– As you come to my house, you can 

see them right away when you enter. 

When someone comes to my place, he 

immediately understands where he is. 

Everyone can offend a boxer, but not everyone 

has time to apologize (smiles). 

”THEY TOOK THE 

SKELETON TO THE ROOM 

AND EVERYBODY WAS 

STUDYING.” 

– What were your first feelings when 

you first came to Moscow from Dagestan? 

– It was cool to be here when I was 16. 

I remember there was a guy from Dagestan 

in my school year, and he said: ”Girls 

complain that they say hello to you, and 

you don't answer them”. I was such a 

different person back then, I thought I 

could not answer them (laughs). 

In fact, my route after was like this: 

school, gym and CSKA for sparring. It 

was a triangle like that. I didn’t go anywhere 

else. Then I started going to the 

movies to Pervomayskaya cinema. I'm 

happy that I studied in this school. 

– What did your studies give you in 

life and sport? 

– I remember we used to take the skeleton 

to our room and learn parts of the body. 

It's very important to know where the organs 

are. The same goes with pharmacology, 

with nutrition. I don't think I'm stupid – if 

I have to do something new, try some new 

profession, I will definitely be useful in it. 

– After graduating from school, do 

you keep in touch with the guys? 

– I have friends, we sometimes meet – 

friends from freestyle wrestling, girls from 

rhythmic gymnastics. With some athletes 

we keep in touch through Instagram. 

– You did some social work in Moscow 

Olympic College №1. Did you take 

girls from rhythmic gymnastics to any 

cultural events? 

– I somehow earned their trust, and I 

really liked it. It was nice, girls from rhythmic 

gymnastics, a very beautiful sport. 

– This summer after the fight Maxim 

Dadashev died from injuries. How did 

you feel when you heard this news? 

– This is our sport. When someone dies in 

the ring, it is very sad. I knew Maxim Dadashev 

from the national team. A good guy, just 

trying to make a career. This was the destiny. 

THE OLYMPIC RESERVE 

QUESTIONNAIRE: 

A banana or an energy bar? Banana. 

Rest by the sea or in the mountains? 

In the mountains. 

Instagram or Facebook? Instagram 

Boxing in Russia or overseas? 

(After pause) In Russia. 

With a strong opponent – to win at 

the very beginning by knockout or 

in a tough fight on points after the 

12th round? 

Knockout 

Watch ”Rocky” or the broadcast of 

boxing competitions? 

Neither (laughs). Of the seven days of 

the week, I have one day off, and all the 

fights are usually on that day. Mentally, 

I want to have some rest from boxing. 

Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson? 

Both of them. These are my two favorite 

boxers, although they preached 

different styles. 



– Is there any way to prevent such 

tragedies or ”you can`t escape from 

destiny”? 

– Either way – it`s fate, I think. Each situation 

has to be dealt separately. I heard 

he was complaining of a headache. Situations 

like this have to be controlled. We 

have to respond to signs like that. When 

we go on a medical examination, it`s always 

very serious. Maybe he didn't tell 

the doctors about the pain, but he told 

his friends. A boxer can be overwhelmed, 

and all he wants is only to win. 

”HE HEARD “MEOW– 

MEOW” FROM HIS SON 

AND TAUGHT HIM TO 

ROAR LIKE A LION.” 

– Have you ever had a fight in your 

real life? 

– My elder brother, who coached me, 

used to say in my childhood that I was 

a hyperactive child, and I had to study a 

lot. He signed me up for the boxing section. 

True, then I got kicked out ten times 

for bad behavior, but I always came back. 

– Why did you get kicked out? 

– I often used to fight because of my 

complicated character. I was about nine 

years old then. I stopped fighting a few 

years later when I started to consider 

myself an athlete. At school, we had a 

notice: ”If you are martial arts fighter, 

you have no right to use it in the street”. 

It was considered as a criminal attack. I 

think I can fight in the street if I will have 

to, but I don’t really want it. 

– After a successful career in amateur 

boxing, you became a pro. Was it 

hard to adapt to the new rules? 

– After two unsuccessful Olympics, I 

wanted to quit boxing. I won European 

Championship, World Championship, 

and the only thing I could not achieve 

was Olympic gold. But after the Games 

in 2012, I received three offers – from 

America, Canada and Germany. Canadians 

were the most persistent. They 

offered to come, to live there for a little 

while. So I went to Canada. Gradually 

I started training, we found mutual understanding 

with the coach. After a few 

months, I had the first professional fight. 

So I moved to the professional boxing 

very smoothly. 

– You`ve been living in Montreal for 

seven years already. Do you feel comfortable 

there? 

– It`s a good country, good people, a lot 

of emigrants, you can often hear Russian 

speech. There are not only Russians there 

– Moldovans, Ukrainians, Kazakhs. It is considered 

to be a good place for a family. 

– How many children do you have? 

– Four. 

– And were they all born in Canada? 

– Two were born in Canada, two in 

Russia. 

– After your professional career, do 

you plan to stay there? 

– That`s not my plan. I'm Russian, I've 

spent most of my life in this country, 

and it's closer to me. But my children... 

They're studying in Canada now. If they 

have the opportunity to stay there, it's 

up to them to choose. 

– How do children react to your 

belts? 

– My son has never done boxing, but 

he saw them, and there was a desire. But 

I think he`s going to get away with it. 

– Would you be happy if he wanted 

to try boxing? 

– It will be unpleasant for me, because 

I will have to go with him (laughs), and I 

don`t want to, I`ve been in boxing for 25 

years already. 

– The character has to be inherited 

from you. 

– So something`s being taken from 

me. The youngest is two years old, and 

he's with his mom all the time, and 

she taught him to do like a cat: ”meow 

meow.” I heard that, he's a guy after all, 

and I told him, ”You're a lion, say it like a 

lion!” And I taught him how to do it, and 

I took out his mom's meow right away. 

– How do you spend your free time? 

– I go to the movies with my kids, 

sometimes I go to hockey, I like to play 

checkers with my friends. 

– How do you communicate with 

the Canadians, do they often ask to 

take fotos with you? 

– They recognize me there more often 

than in Moscow or in my home town. 

They love sports, fights. For example, at 

7 a.m. my first training begins, and people 

at the age of 90 workout in the same 

gym. Seeing such people gives you motivation 

to train more. The sports complex 

was opened in the 70s, and once I asked 

this old man: ”How long have you been 

training here?” He answered: ”I come 

here since the first day it was opened.” 

– Can you tell me about one of your 

days preparing for the fight with Alexander 

Gvozdik? 

– I wake up at 5:00 in the morning. 

– Easy to get up? 

– Yes, I go to bed early – at ten I am already 

asleep. Sleeping is a very important 

part of preparation. When I wake up, I pray. 

My bag is usually packed from the evening. 

I always have coffee with dates. I usually 

have a light breakfast not to train on 

an empty stomach. At 6:00, I get in the car 

and go to the first practice. From 7 to 9, I`m 

working on the general physical preparation. 

But I only leave the gym at ten. I must 

work on my mistakes after the training, because 

no one knows you better than you 

yourself. At eleven, I'm home for breakfast, 

have rest. Then, from three to five, I have 

a second workout. And then again, the 

coach forces me to leave the gym. And I 

practice punches on a boxing sack, work 

on my neck, do abs. I come home in the 

evening, my whole family gathers. I ask the 

kids how school is going on. 

– Does it ever feel like you have to 

slow down at practice? 

– Yeah, sure. I don`t always have that 

kind of super energy. I can ask coach to 

run for an hour instead of a full workout. 

He says, ”I know you wouldn’t ask without 

a reason.” 

– What would you wish to the students 

of the Moscow Olympic College 

№1? 

– It`s a very cool place for a beginner 

athlete to become a professional. It`s a 

base that's with me today, and I got it at 

school. There have been a lot of changes 

in MOC lately – it has become more 

beautiful, more comfortable, everything 

moves around. I have a lifetime of memories 

of the time I spent there. 



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ROUND TABLE: 

"MODERN TRENDS IN THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT" 

On March 20, at the Moscow School of 

Olympic Reserve No. 1, a round table was 

held on the topic: "Modern Trends in the 

Olympic Movement." 

For several hours, sports functionaries, 

managers, heads of sports educational 

institutions, famous Russian and Soviet 

athletes expressed their views on the development 

of professional, student and 

youth sports in Russia and around the 

world. 

DIRECT SPEECH 

Sergey Seyranov, 

Rector of MGAFK: 

“The commercialization of sports has 

led to the fact that today, unfortunately, 

parents lead the child into sports, not 

just to tear him from the street and make 

him healthier, distract from deviant behaviour. 

They treat it as a business investment. 

” 

Sergey Kosilov, 

Advisor to the President of 

the ROC: 

“It is at such round tables that initiatives 

appear, thanks to which regulatory 

documents are then formed at the 

level of the legislative base in various 

constituent entities of the Russian Federation.” 

Roman Pitko, 

World Cup Winner 

kickboxing 

Director of SSHOR No. 76: 

“Today it is necessary to strengthen 

the issue of retraining staff for working 

with children, because the trends, 

methods and ways of training are 

changing. "The coaching staff must be 

able to work in modern conditions on 

the new infrastructure and with all the 

best practices." 

Dmitry Trunenkov, 

Olympic champion 

bobsleigh: 

“Today there was a team that is really 

competent in matters of Olympism, 

knows the solutions to existing problems, 

but, unfortunately, we are now 

on the verge of such turbulence, when 

it is really worthwhile to wait, stop, 

think. And as Sergei Vasilievich Kosilov 

said, we need to look for more positive 

points. ” 

Alexander Ivanitsky, 

Olympic champion, 4-time 

world champion 

in freestyle wrestling: 

“The modern Olympic movement is 

a huge commercial soap bubble that 

should burst. This is a dead end branch 

of sports development. You need to 

think something and look for something. 

Today we do not understand what the 

Olympic movement is. But there are people 

who are looking for a way out of this 

situation. One of them is the participants 

of these round tables. ” 

Alexander Stradze, 

Institute Director 

Natural Sciences and Sports 

Technologies MPGU: 

“I would like to draw a line between 

the principles of Olympism and those 

skills and competencies that are necessary 

for modern man. Many say that 


these principles have somehow transformed. 

But it’s not the principles that 

have changed, the attitude and concept 

to these principles has transformed.” 

Galina Gorokhova, 

Three-time Olympic fencing 

champion 

“The coach should pay attention not 

only to general physical and special training, 

but also to education. The athlete 

must be harmoniously developed, be at 

the highest spiritual level. " 

FULL MEMBERSHIP: 

1. KOSILOV SERGEY VASILIEVICH 

Advisor to the President of the 

Russian Olympic Committee 

2. STRADZE ALEXANDER EDUAR- 

DOVICH 

Director of the Institute of Natural 

Sciences and Sports Technologies, 

Moscow City Pedagogical University 

3. ERYOGINA SVETLANA VLADI- 

MIROVNA 

Vice-Rector of the State Autonomous 

Educational Establishment 

of Higher Education “Moscow 

State Institute of Physical Culture, 

Sports and Tourism named after 

Yu. A. Senkevich”, Moscow Sports 

Department 

4. GLUSHKOV ALEXEY YURYEVICH 

Director of the College of Physical 

Culture and Sports "Sparta" 

State-funded Budget Educational 

Institution Department of Sports 

Moscow 

5. KASHEVAROVA IRINA ANATOL- 

YEVNA 

Advisor and Deputy Chairman of 

the Public Youth Physical Culture 

and Sports Association "Youth of 

Russia" 

6. RAKITINA MARINA ANATOLY- 

EVNA 

Head of the educational department 

of the Moscow State 

Pedagogical University “Moscow 

Secondary Specialized School of 

Olympic Reserve No. 3”, Moscow 

Sports Department 

7. SEYRANOV SERGEY GER- 

MANOVICH 

President of the All-Russian Public 

Organization "Russian Student 

Sports Union." Rector of FSBEI 

of HE "Moscow State Academy of 

Physical Culture" 

8. SHCHELCHKOV SERGEY VLA- 

DISLAVOVICH 

Deputy Director of State-funded 

Budget Educational Institution 

"Sports School of the Olympic 

Reserve No. 64" of the Department 

of Sports of Moscow 

9. ZVYAGINTSEVA OLGA PAVLOVNA 

Director of the Institute of Tourism 

and Hospitality (Moscow) (branch) 

FSBEI HE "RGUTiS" 

10. MAYATSKAYA IRINA NIKOLAEVNA 

Deputy Director of the Institute of 

Tourism and Hospitality (Moscow) 

(branch) FSBEI HE "RGUTiS" 

11. NYUNIN OLEG BORISOVICH 

Deputy Director of the Bitsa Sports 

School, Moscow Sports Department 

12. PITKO ROMAN IGOREVICH 

Director of the State-funded Budget 

Educational Institution "Sports 

School No. 76" of the Department 

of Sports of Moscow 

13. VAGIN IVAN EVGENIEVICH 

Deputy Director State-funded Budget 

Educational Institution Department 

"Sports School No. 76" of the 

Department of Sports of Moscow 

14. IVANITSKY ALEXANDER VLAD- 

IMIROVICH 

Olympic champion, 4-time world 

champion, Honored Master of 

Sports of the USSR 

15. GOROKHOVA GALINA EVGE- 

NIEVNA 

3-time Olympic champion. President 

of the Russian Union of 

Athletes 

16. ZURIN EDUARD ADOLFOVICH 

Deputy Director General, Federal 

Scientific Center for Physical 

Culture and Sports, Ministry of 

Sports of the Russian Federation. 

17. TSILFIDIS LAZAROS KONSTAN- 

TINOVICH 

President of the All-Russian Federation 

18. KOZLOV ALEXANDER VIKTOR- 

OVICH 

Deputy Head of the Department of 

Management, Financial University 

under the Government of the Russian 

Federation 

19. ARKHIPOV IVAN VALERIEVICH 

Executive Secretary Moscow City 

Interdepartmental Commission for 

Minors and the Protection of Their 

Rights. 

20. KELIBERDA JULIA 

VYACHESLAVOVNA 

Deputy Director, Sports and 

Pedagogical College State-funded 

Budget Educational Institution 

Department, Department of Sports, 

Moscow 

21. TRUNENKOV DMITRY 

Olympic champion 

22. BEZHANASHVILI GEORGE SOL- 

OMONOVICH 

Senior Specialist anti-doping 

activities GKU "Center for Sports 

Innovative Technologies and training 

teams »Department of Sports 

of Moscow 

23. KUTIN ILYA VIKTOROVICH 

Head of the educational department 

of the Moscow State 

Pedagogical University “Moscow 

Secondary Specialized School of 

Olympic Reserve No. 1”, Moscow 

Sports Department 

24. MUSULBES DAVID VLADI- 

MIROVICH 

Olympic champion, Director, 

State-funded Budget Educational 

Institution Department 

“Moscow Secondary Specialized 

School of Olympic Reserve No. 

1” Department of Sports of 

Moscow 



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OLYMPIC CHAMPION 

IGOR KRAVCHUK: 

“MY TRADEMARK EQUIPMENT WAS 

FOUR THICK PIECES OF RUBBER AND MITTENS“ 

The first Soviet hockey player who 

played in the Stanley Cup finals, twotime 

Olympic champion Igor Kravchuk 

talked to the Olympic Reserve. We remembered 

his first steps in sports, talked 

about Olympic gold, a team game with 

Fetisov, Larionov and Kasatonov, neutral 

status at the Games and moving to the 

NHL. 

REFERENCE: IGOR KRAVCHUK, 

Born in Ufa in 1966. He played as a defender for 

Salavat Yulaev, CSKA. In 1992, he left for the NHL 

and became the first Soviet hockey player to play in 

the Stanley Cup finals for the Chicago Blackhawks. 

Also played in the League for Edmonton, St. Louis, 

Ottawa, Calgary and Florida. 

– Igor, how do you estimate the recent 

games of the national teams of 

Russia? 

– The Channel One Cup before the 

New Year became the first Russian national 

team tournament under the leadership 

of Alexei Kudashev. Still there 

is a search for members and possible 

options. NHL players will also go to the 

Olympics. It is difficult to say something 

now, you need to look at the team that 

will represent the country at the Games. 

I liked the youth. We also were a bit unlucky 

in the final of the World Cup with 

the Canadians – these deletions, rebounds 

… Hockey is an unpredictable 

game. Everyone wants to win, and a lot 

depends on luck. And the youth team 

at the Olympics in Switzerland pleased, 

defeating the United States in the final. 

– You were the head coach of the 

junior team of Russia during the 2013 

World Cup in Sochi. Was the pre-Olympic 

atmosphere already felt in the city? 

– The tournament was significant for 

us. We tuned the guys only for victory. 

Then there was widespread advertising – 

people began to prepare for this event in 

a few years. By that time, some objects 

had not yet been completed, but after a 

year the Olympic Park was not recognizable 

– everything was transformed. I was 

struck in Sochi by the scale and scope in 

comparison with the Olympics in which I 

participated. When you come to perform, 

you completely cannot feel the Olympic 

atmosphere, you only think about victory, 

your personal contribution. 

– Are you connected with the 

coaching work now? 

“Helping a 14-year-old son.” Now I 

have a virtual vacation, I am with him all 

the time. I shoot training and games on 

video, then we all watch, analyze, and I 

tell him something. 

– How much has hockey changed 

compared to your youth? 

– It has changed a lot, you should 

not even compare. It has become more 

dynamic. Players are technically better 

equipped. This applies to equipment, 

physical training. There are new exercises. 

Now hockey players are more diversified. 

We played a lot football, basketball, 

handball. I completely spent my summer 

at a football stadium. You put two tomatoes 

in your pocket – and you run away 

all day. You run home, drink some water 

and continue to play. 

– You are a pupil of the Soviet hockey 

school. The first steps were taken 

in Ufa on natural ice in an open box. 

Then the winter was different. 

– Winter was really different in the 

Urals. There was one indoor stadium for 

the whole city; the rest of the time was 

spent in open areas. If it was very cold, 

you ride for twenty minutes – for ten 

minutes you warm your arms, legs, and 

again for training. 

PROFILE OF THE OLYMPIC 

RESERVE: 

Holidays on the sea or in the 

mountains? On the sea 

Juice or soda? Juice 

Cinema or theatre? Cinema 

Which is closer to you, the KHL or 

the NHL? 

(after a pause) Good question. 

Probably the NHL 

Strength or stroke? 

To me as a defender – power move 

Valery Kharlamov or Alexander 

Ovechkin? 

I almost do not remember Kharlamov. 

Only excerpts from the video. And 

Ovechkin appeared before my eyes. 

Logically, I have to say Ovechkin, but I’ll 

say Kharlamov, because at that moment 

what I saw – it, of course, struck me. 



– How was the equipment then? 

– You could not even buy a stick in 

the store. Skates were in great short 

supply. My branded outfit is four thick 

pieces of rubber that I put on my lower 

leg, and the usual mittens. I don’t even 

remember if I had a helmet. So we rode 

for three to four months, until we passed 

the selection. And then we were already 

given the first form. But everything was 

the simplest. For example, gloves stuffed 

with horsehair. 

– They say that before they even 

played with Christmas trees. 

– It was so. In the yards, they took 

Christmas trees, cut down branches, 

and bent the part, bent it, and a stick 

was obtained, as for playing with a ball. 

It was impossible to play with the puck. 

And so they played the courtyard vs the 

courtyard without ice, on felt boots on 

a rolled road. Shoes quickly wore out 

from such running around, and parents 

constantly cursed. They played until 

it got dark, as the lighting was dim. 

All this happened on the roads, where 

there were few cars, then there were not 

enough ice rinks. 

“Were there boxes in every yard?” 

– We had a school hockey box, but 

there were a lot who wanted to ride, and 

it was flooded by hand and only at night. 

It was impossible to play: it was a hive - 

everyone rode in different directions. 

– You were in the first set of coach 

Vladimir Vorobyov. And in the end, 

the 1966th year of birth became one 

of the strongest in the history of 

Salavat Yulaev. Do you often visit Ufa? 

– Not often, unfortunately, although 

my sister still lives there. The last time 

I came with the Kunlun team (Chinese 

professional club, approx. Ed.). I talked 

a little with Vladimir Ivanovich. Then 

they played and immediately flew 

away. 

– Now “Salavat” is in seventh place 

of the Eastern Conference and in recent 

years, probably, shows not quite 

the hockey that fans expect from it. 

What is wrong with the team? 

– I can’t say that the fans of Salavat are 

spoiled. Yes, we won the championship, 

but now the team is showing a decent 

result. There are still a lot of good matches 

and victories. I would like to see Bashkir 

hockey pupils in the club. There are 

good coaches, and I think that progress 

is not far off. 

OLYMPIC CHAMPION IN 

1988 AND 1992, SILVER 

MEDALIST (1998) AND 

BRONZE (2002), WORLD 

CHAMPION (1990) AND 

EUROPEAN CHAMPION 

(1991). SHARES WITH 

VLADISLAV TRETIAK AND 

JIRI KHOLIK A RECORD 

FOR THE NUMBER OF 

OLYMPIC AWARDS 

AMONG HOCKEY PLAYERS 

(4 EACH). 

“NEUTRAL STATUS? HERE 

WENT IVANOV, PETROV, 

SIDOROV. DO WE KNOW 

WHICH COUNTRY THEY 

STAND FOR? ” 

– The first loud success came to you 

in 1988 - the gold of the Olympics in 

Calgary. What does it mean to win the 

Olympic Games? 

– The feeling of victory came much 

later. That season turned out to be crazy 

– I came to CSKA in the summer of 

1987, that team consisted of only stars. 

From the first to the last link. 

The Olympics turned out to be difficult. 

Then we sat and talked about how 

much the national team needed in order 

to win the overall standings. All Soviet 

athletes were united by a common goal 

– to win a medal for the country. 

– Remember how then you were 

met in Moscow at the airport? 

– The official meeting was later. We 

were at the training camp for a long time, 

and when leaving the plane, first of all, 

we wanted to see relatives and friends. 

– You played in the same team with 

Vyacheslav Fetisov, Alexei Kasatonov, 

Igor Larionov, Alexander Mogilny. 

When your team has such hockey players, 

does it give strength, motivates? 

– You’re not thinking about greatness 

there. It is always a pleasure to play with 

professionals. You feel confident – with 

such people you can always go into intelligence. 

Yes, we were all wrong, but 

the guys always helped and corrected 

the situation. 

– You went to the Games in Albertville 

in 1992 with the combined team 

of the former republics of the USSR. 

Did winning the second Olympics differ 

from your triumph in Calgary? 

“Your home is where you live.” It 

doesn’t matter what the rings were or 

if there were no rings on the shirt, I was 

playing at that moment for the country. 

Nobody believed in our team, except 

for ourselves, and the tournament was 

difficult. We had a lot of young guys. But 

we found the strength to beat the Canadians 

and become Olympic champions. 

Evgeni Mayorov (Olympic champion in 



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1954. – approx. Ed.) Then said: "They became 

Olympic champions, contrary to all 

doubts." 

– Then you have played without a 

hymn and a flag. There is something 

in common with the situation that 

may arise at the next Olympics for 

our team. Do they need to go to the 

Games in neutral status? 

– Difficult question. The Olympic cycle 

lasts four years. The first four-year period 

was missed, the peak of the form passes. 

There went Ivanov, Petrov, Sidorov. 

Do we know which country they stand 

for? What political background is there, 

we all the same understand that they are 

from Russia. Here is the choice for every 

athlete. 

– If you return to your triumph 

in 1992, then the next hockey gold 

was waited for 26 years - before the 

Olympics in Pyeongchang. Why, having 

Bure, Yashin, Kovalchuk, Malkin, 

Ovechkin, Russia could not win the 

tournament? 

– Hockey is a game of winners, and 

everyone plays to win. There is a moment 

of luck. Remember the goal from 

the Czechs at our gates at the 1998 

Olympics in Nagano – this is a rebound 

from two sticks. It’s hard to say why one 

team wins, but another doesn’t. I do 

not want to draw any parallels. Whoever 

represents our team, he goes to 

the Olympic Games to win. And at the 

last Games the luck was on our side. We 

scored a goal in overtime a few seconds 

before the siren. 

– Before the start of the Olympics 

in Pyeongchang, could you suggest 

that Germany will reach the finals? 

– It was known that this is a strong 

team. We must take into account the 

number of German guys who played in 

the NHL, and they are now at the helm 

of the team. At one time, Uwe Krupp 

scored a goal, and Colorado won the 

Stanley Cup. 

"THERE WAS AN AGREE- 

MENT WITH VIKTOR TIK- 

HONOV – WE WIN THE 

OLYMPICS, AND HE IM- 

MEDIATELY LETS ME GO 

TO THE NHL." 

– In 1992, after the Olympics, you 

moved to the NHL. It was a difficult 

time in Russia then – only the formation 

of a new state was taking 

place. Did you feel the contrast in 

America? 

– At the household level, the conditions 

were better, let's face it. You could 

rent an apartment, rent a car, everything 

was in the shops. Impressive. Before that, 

I came with the CSKA team in the super 

series. But it’s one thing when you arrive 

in the status of an army man, and another 

when you play in the NHL in one 

of the most titled teams of the Chicago 

Blackhawks League. I moved there in the 

status of a two-time Olympic champion. 

And Viktor Vasilievich (Honored Coach of 

the USSR, CSKA coach Viktor Tikhonov. 

– Ed.) kept his word and let me go right 

after the Olympics. I had an agreement 

with him that if we win the Games, then 

he would allow me to leave immediately 

after they end. 

– And if you had not won? 

– I would return and finish the season. 

It gave me more strength, the season 

was enchanting. Canada Cup, Olympics 

and Stanley Cup Finals. Unfortunately, 

we lost to Pittsburgh 0–4 in the series, 

but this season I played hockey for eleven 

months and was squeezed like a lemon. 

But this season I remembered for a 

lifetime. 

– Did you quickly learn English? 

– No one spoke Russian in the team. 

I was in such a situation that I had to roll 

up my sleeves and learn the language. 

It took me six months to understand 

what they were saying. After another six 

months, I was able to speak fluently, understand 

slang. 

– How were you accepted as a team? 

– The head coach of the club Mike 

Keenan was a supporter of age play- 

ers. And I was probably the youngest 

among them. I was 26 then. There was 

Dominic Hasek, he is a year older than 

me. The guys were professionals in everything 

– playing a game, life is life. 

The players' union controlled that we 

did not spend more than four hours 

at the stadium. Many things for me 

there were completely new. Together 

we went to billiards, restaurants, and 

cinema. There was a team at Chicago, 

united by the idea of winning the Stanley 

Cup. 

– What was the difference between 

overseas hockey and ours, except for 

the size of the court? 

– Firstly, the number of matches is 82 

games of the regular season. We played 

two matches in three days. Seven games 

in eleven days. In Russia, we had a maximum 

of two to three games a week. In 

CSKA, we trained a lot. And there, our 

classes lasted thirty minutes – they were 

short and intense. Still there were very 

warm arenas. 

– Psychologically, was it easier to 

play more? 

– Yes, but because of the high density, 

I had a little fed up in the first season. 

Mike usually played two pairs of defenders. 

But then I got used to it, and it was 

already easy. 

– In your debut match you scored a 

goal, in the very first season Chicago 

Blackhawks reached the Stanley Cup 

finals, can this season be considered 

the most memorable for you? 

– So many tournaments I have not 

played in a season before – these are 

the Stanley Cup, the Canada Cup, the 

Olympic Games, the Izvestia tournament 

– four tournaments in eleven 

months. But whether it can be considered 

the best, I do not know. There 

the press is: today you played well – 

well done, tomorrow you performed 

poorly – you need to be changed. The 

pressure was very strong. Mike always 

advised: "Do not read the newspaper." 

and added: "When you take off, you 

have to be a little lower, when you fall, 

look for the middle." 

– What can you wish for young athletes? 

– You have to love your sport. Fully 

surrender to him. It is important to be a 

good person, a patriot of your country. 

Love hockey, and he will repay you the 

same. 



WORLD FREESTYLE 

WRESTLING CHAMPION 


“AFTER THE TERRORIST ATTACK IN BESLAN, 

I GAVE UP WRESTLING FOR TWO YEARS” 

At the 2019 Freestyle Wrestling World 

Championships in Nur-Sultan, Zaurbek 

Sidakov defended his champion title. 

In a conversation with the Olympic Reserve, 

he opened up how he was lying 

to the coach, why he does not like vacations, 

shared his opinion about his star 

second, and who he looked up to. 

REFERENCE: Zaurbek Sidakov, 

23 years old, was born and lives in Beslan. World 

champion 2018-2019 in freestyle wrestling in the 

weight class up to 74 kg, champion of the European 

Games in 2019. Height – 175 cm, weight – 70-74 kg. 

EMOTIONS AFTER THE GOLD 

OF THE WORLD CUP 2019 

In the last seconds of the final I looked 

at the scoreboard, and the score was 5: 

2, only then did I realize that I was the 

winner. I took another step towards my 

main goal - the Olympic Games. It is important 

that I did not let the team down 

and made a worthy performance. When 

the flag of your country is raised, you are 

standing on the highest step of the pedestal, 

making five thousand people rise 

and listen to the Russian anthem – the 

feelings are indescribable. 

THE CAPITAL OF THE 2019 

WORLD CUP - NUR SULTAN 

Russian athletes were supported 

greatly there. They know and love wrestling. 

Children went crazy, did not let me 

go after the final. It was a pleasure to 

wrestle there. Nur-Sulitan has become a 

successful city for me. 

THE AUDIENCE 

First of all, a person listens to himself. 

But the coach, of course, also must be listened 

to, outside the mat wrestling looks 

completely different. I don’t really hear 

the audience. When you are preparing 

for a match, the fans do not always understand 

that the athlete should not be 

approached. But, in my youth, I myself 

approached outstanding champions, 

I wanted to take pictures with them, 

touch them. 

WORLD CUP MEDAL 

At the 2018 World Cup, I really wanted 

to win and fought till the last second, 

it cost me a lot of nerves along the way, 

so the first medal is the most valuable to 

me. Only when I came to the hotel room 

did I realize everything and asked myself 

- am I really the world champion?! And 

this year I was going to the championship 

to defend the title. 

OLYMPIC CHAMPION, 

6-TIME WORLD CHAMPION 

ARSEN FADZAEV 

It is very valuable when you are seconded 

by such a big person. He is an 

outstanding athlete. I am always happy 

to see him, he gives me strong support. I 

am very grateful to him for that. And opponents 

are scared when they see him 

(laughs). 

OLYMPIC GAMES 

This is the main competition for me. 

When I came to the first training and 

stepped on the mat, I was told that 

Olympic medal was top priority. I’ve 

been striving to win Olympic Games 

since childhood. In my opinion, after 

winning such a competition it is easier 

to wrestle and to live. Wrestling is life for 

me. I wake up in the morning - wrestling 

is in my head, I go to bed - wrestling is in 

my head. I constantly see Olympic rings 

in front of my eyes. 

SPORTS CHOICE 

One day I was playing with my friend 

outdoors, suddenly, his parents took 

him to the training. I was left alone. I 

was standing, looking at them, suddenly 

his parents called me: “Come with us!” 

I got into the car and thought: “What is 

freestyle wrestling?” In the training hall 

I met my first coach. Two weeks later, a 

terrorist attack knocked over the town 



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of Beslan, and wrestling had to be abandoned 

for two years. Parents were afraid 

to let me out of home alone. One day my 

coach met us in Beslan and asked why I 

was not training. After that I was back to 

wrestling. 

LYING TO THE COACH 

When we were about nine years old, 

we lied to our coach - we used to say that 

we had to go home early, otherwise we 

would miss the bus. Once when we had 

competitions, I lost in the first match, 

and my friend won the third place. I was 

sitting on the mat and I was thinking: 

“Why didn’t I get the medal?”. And all of 

a sudden they announced my name and 

I was awarded with the diploma “For the 

Will to Victory”. I felt very ashamed, and 

I started training a lot. The coach asked: 

"Aren't you in a hurry to catch your 

bus anymore?” And since then I was always 

going home on the latest bus. Six 

months later, I won that tournament. 

IDOLS 

I have no idols. I take examples from 

many athletes. Some are very disciplined, 

some use some kind of action 

on the mat I like. Besik Kudukhov (a 

4-time world freestyle wrestling champion 

died in a car accident on December 

29, 2013, approx. Ed.) – he showed 

incredible character! Arthur Taymazov, 

Denis Tsargush. You should not have 

idols, but examples need to be taken. 

And not only from elder people. I can 

see a young and not very famous athlete, 

and I can learn something from 

him. This can be applied not only to 

wrestling, but also to human qualities. 

SIGNS 

I always step on the mat with my right 

foot. Of course, not the right foot brings 

us luck, but the work that has been done. 

We always rely on God, without faith a 

man is empty. 

STUDY 

I graduated from State Mining University. 

Now I have Bachelor's Degree. 

I have recently entered the Faculty of 

Law. I have not yet thought about a 

coaching career. 

VACATION 

I do not go on vacation usually. For 

the first time I went on holiday this year. 

We went to Turkey. And even there I 

did exercises in the morning, I can’t rest 

without trainings. 

Wishes for the athletes of Moscow 

Olympic College №1. 

To succeed, you need hard work, discipline, 

desire, you need to listen to your 

parents and achieve your goals. 



RUSSIAN ATHLETES SET 2 WORLD RECORDS 

AND GOT 12 MEDALS AT WORLD SKATING 

CHAMPIONSHIP IN THE USA 

T 

he main hero of the World 

Championship in Salt Lake 

City, which was held at an altitude 

of 1,425 meters above sea level on 

the fastest ice on the planet, was Russian 

athlete Pavel Kulizhnikov. He won two 

gold medals at 500 and 1000 meters and 

broke the world record at one thousand. 

Natalya Voronina won the competition 

on the top five with the world record. 

Three medals were won by Olga Fatkulina. 

She was second in the team sprint at 

1,000 m and third at 500m. Angelina Golikova 

won two silver medals (team sprint 

and 500 m). Ruslan Murashov climbed to 

the second step in the 500 m podium. Yevgeniya 

Lalenkova was the silver medalist in 

1,500 m. Another silver medal was won in 

the team sprint by Daria Kachanova. 

Elizabeth Kazelina closed the three 

winners for 1500 m, while Ruslan Zakharov, 

Danila Semerikov and Sergey Trofimov 

became bronze medalists in the 

team sprint. 

The Russian national team was second 

in the team medal standings: 12 (3 

gold, 5 silver and 4 bronze medals). First 

place was taken by the Netherland team, 

14 (7–5–2), third place was taken by Canadians, 

9 (3–2–4). 

Pavel Kulizhnikov 

Photo: ISU 



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WORLD CHAMPION 

NINA STATKEVICH: 

Фото: http://sportgymrus.ru 

Е. Михайловой 

”THE TICKET COLLECTOR FINED ME, 

I RAN TO THE STADIUM 

AND BROKE TWO RECORDS” 

This year, 50 years of Nina Statkevich’s 

victory in the first ever European women's 

ice skating championship, which 

ended in February 1970 in Heerenveen 

on the ice of the legendary Tialf. PoKatit 

visited St. Petersburg at a two-time 

European champion, record holder and 

World champion. We talked about the 

insult for the first coach, the Muscovites' 

prejudiced attitude, dislike of Medeo, 

meeting at warm up with her future husband, 

how they canceled the trip to the 

World Cup, and remembered about the 

time when more spectators gathered on 

the Petrovsky ice skating than on the Zenith. 

INFORMATION: NINA STATKEVICH – 

World champion (1971), 2-time European champion 

(1970, 1971) in ice skating. Born in 1944 in 

Leningrad. 

“BEFORE THE 1ST GRADE 

I HAD TO RELEARN 

FROM THE UKRAINIAN 

LANGUAGE” 

Nina Statkevich was born in Moscow 

three weeks after the lifting of the siege 

of Leningrad. 

“My Father before the war in 1940 was 

sent from the enterprise to Nizhny Tagil, 

and from there to Moscow. In 1946, we 

returned to Leningrad, explains Nina Andreevna. 

“As a child, I was a rickety girl, my 

legs were like that (shows the index 

finger). My father’s parents lived with 

my father in the Vinnitsa region, and 

for the summer I was sent to Ukraine. 

I went there for several years in a row 

and began to speak Ukrainian. After 

returning home before going to first 

grade, I even had to relearn, recalls 

Statkevich. 

Despite the disease, the girl loved 

sports from an early ages and from 

childhood got used to physical labor. 

The family lived in a wooden house in 

the historical district of Leningrad, and 

Nina had to cope daily with household 

chores. 

“My older brother Victor went to volleyball, 

gymnastics and everywhere he 

dragged me with him. I had no one to 

leave at home with, and I tumbled on the 

mats in the hall or hung on the uneven 

bars. Our street was very athletic. Under 

the porch of what was not there - a spear, 

a disk, a core. Brother made the crossbar, 

and we often gathered there. Victor constantly 

held various games and competitions 

– who will throw further, who will 

catch up more. 

I always loved skating. First I skated on 

felt boots, then, together with a felt boot, 

I inserted my legs into the skate boots. 

At twelve years old I had appendicitis 

removed. Mom took me from the hospital 

and left for work. I immediately went 

out into the yard, put on my skates and 

began to ride in the snow (laughs). The 

neighbors jumped out into the street 

and started shouting: “Are you crazy?” 

Somehow in Udelniy Park (there was 

a skating rink there for a long time), I 

argued with a guy who was two years 

older who would win the hundred-meter 

race. They always said “handicap, 

handicap” – somebody brought sweets, 

somebody brought gingerbread cookies. 

And I won. He then brought for all a 

kilo of cookies.“ 

“I WAS ALWAYS 

TORMENTED BY THE 

SITUATION WITH MY 

PERSONAL COACH” 

Brother Victor joined the army. The 

financial situation in the family was difficult, 

and Nina went in the ninth grade 

to work at the Svetlana plant, where her 

mother worked. Her workshop produced 

light bulbs for TVs, and the girl's task was 

to put on a cap. 

“We had to dry them, coat them with 

mastic, twist and put in the oven. We 

were given gloves, alcohol. My hands 

were scratched all the time.” 

But Nina did not forget about studying 

either, attending evening school. 

The day for the girl began at 6 in the 

morning. First, work at the factory, 

then training, and at the end of the day 

it was still necessary to find strength 

for study. 

“All the time I participated for school 

in competitions in various sports. Somehow 

I came to work, and there is a large 

inscription on the board: “We advise 

Nina Statkevich to come to the stadium 

and sign up for some section”. 

I come to the stadium, and there they 

go bent over. I already knew this. On 

Udelnaya I watched the guy ride alone. 

Then just everyone was talking on the 

radio about Shilkov (Olympic champion 

Boris Shilkov) and I thought that they 

ride so beautifully – like Boris. 

I ended up with Viktor Mikhailovich 

Solovyov. Then I asked a neighbor to 

knit a sweater for me and began classes. 

Our coach was a good organizer. And we 

turned the bike, and the approach to the 

training process was literate. “ 

Victor Solovyov brought the athlete 



to the level of the national team, but 

there is no mention of his support to the 

speed skating victory. 

“When the first competition was, I 

completed the third adult rank. Then 

I, with my peripheral village character, 

could not figure out the situation. Lidia 

Matveevna (two-time World champion 

Lidia Selikhova, at that time a coach of 

the DSO “Trud”) after the start, asked 

where I came from and recorded in 

her group. But it was convenient for 

me to train with Viktor Mikhailovich. 

I went out after the factory, and the 

stadium was opposite. But sometimes 

I appeared at Selikhova’s and she told 

me: “Where have you gone?” She had 

more conversations in training, the 

girls were engaged in urban teams, 

and in Solovyov – in factory teams. 

They came to talk, spend time, and I 

needed to run cross-country (laughs). 

I had little time. 

I did not know much then. Although 

I told in an interview about my personal 

coach, but then did not find these statements 

– these words disappeared from 

the press. When I won Europe and the 

World, the conversation turned to whom 

to give a merited trainer. I then said: "I 

am not against Selikhova, but most of all 

I want not to offend Viktor Mikhailovich." 

Then I even burst into tears. 

Lydia Matveevna was known in Moscow, 

and this played a role. The attitude 

of Muscovites to Leningraders has always 

been biased. The competition at 

the Spartakiads and other starts was 

very serious, and the Moscow skaters 

were in priority. 

After the end of my sports career in 

1980, I came to the city sports committee 

and raised this question. But there it 

was not noted anywhere that he was my 

personal and first coach. As if they were 

pulling something out of their pocket. 

This situation has always tormented me.” 

“THERE WAS A DEPARTURE 

AT THE WORLD CUP IN THE 

MORNING, BUT ON THE 

EVENING AT DINNER THEY 

SAID THAT I WOULD NOT 

GO“ 

Nina Statkevich worked at the plant 

for exactly 8 years – from 16 to 24. One 

May day, she was informed that from 

next month she didn’t need to come to 

the plant anymore - she was enrolled in 

the USSR national team and completely 

transferred to the bet. 

“I was shocked then – you don’t need 

to work, just train and have fun.” 

Nina was a modest girl and for the 

first time she was ashamed of many 

people in a team. And this is not surprising 

- she was surrounded by Olympic 

champions. But only six months 

later, the speed skater complied with 

the standard of an international-class 

master of sports and took the fifth 

place in the championship of the Soviet 

Union. The team list was announced 

at the World Championships in Classical 

All-Around in Grenoble in 1969, 

and Statkevich was already preparing 

for the tournament, but in the end did 

not go to it. 

“Then I already wrote a letter to 

my mother and was ready to go to the 

championship. In the morning I had to 

fly, and at dinner they told me that I will 

not go. Instead, they took Vera Krasnova 

(Olympic silver medalist). She won five 

hundred at the national championship 

then. 

Only thirty years later, at one event 

in Moscow, Krasnova said she was very 

grateful to Yuri Nikolayevich Ivashkin – 

thanks to him she went to that championship. 

Ivashkin was once a coach of 

Krasnova’s mentor. 

As a result, I was left without a ticket 

and on my own way I got from Moscow 

to Alma-Ata. Then they told me: "Go 

down to the underpass, there at the 

box office, the mother of one skater will 

make you a ticket." 

After that I was given an incentive 

trip to Germany to compete for the 

prizes of the newspaper “Evening Berlin”. 

Then I won everything, and I had a 

cup – a brick with a skate – as a keepsake.” 

“ON THE BIRTHDAY THE 

GUYS FROM THE TEAM 

SAID: “YOU ARE SUCH AN 

OLD WOMAN!” 

As you know, many successful athletes 

are complex. Nina Statkevich was 

an exception. She was distinguished 

by non-conflict, openness, honesty 

and simplicity. But good nature was 

not always appreciated in the USSR 

team. 

“Once at the table, one of the teammates 

said to me: “There is oil on you 

so that you choke. ” They also called me 

kurkulikha. And what kind of kurkulikha 

am I? I was grown in poverty. 

But the most offensive I heard on my 

birthday. There was a cake on the table, 

and the guys said: “You are such an old 

woman!”. Although they were 23, I turned 

27 years old. I then got up from the table 

and went to cry, ”Nina Andreevna recalls 

laughing today. 

However, there were much more 

positive moments in the bright skater 

career. One of them occurred in Chelyabinsk. 

“Then I was already in the team. In 

a hurry to competitions, ran out of the 

hotel with skates armpit. I decided to 

save time to ride stowaway by bus one 

stop. There was no money with me. 

As a result, the controllers decided to 

fine me and drove me to the ring. I was 

ashamed, making excuses as I could, 

and then quickly ran for a long time 

to the rink. I came to the stadium and 

set two records. That's how I stretched 

myself. ” 

There's not without curious adventures 

and other collections. 

“Lasma (world champion Lasma 

Kauniste) was an artist with us. She is a 

Baltic girl, and decided that she should 

be cared for. Somehow we arrived at 

the training camp, everyone takes their 

bags, but she doesn’t. We arrive, and Lasma 

asks where her suitcase is. She had 

all things there, including skates. In my 

opinion, we didn’t find anything.” 

“THERE WAS A HUGE 

POSTER FROM THE 

FACTORY: “NINA, 54TH IS 

WITH YOU!’’ 

In 1970, Nina Statkevich won the 

first ever European Women's All-Around 

Championship, which took place at the 

famous Tialf ice rink in Heerenveen. 

We are sitting in the locker room before 

the start of the tournament - next to 

Lasma and Titova (Olympic champion Lyudmila 

Titova). I even asked Lasma: “Lis- 



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ten, why is she (Titova) looking at me like 

that?” Everyone tuned in its own way. Titova 

understood that I got into the team 

when she was on top. The coaches and I 

never settled together with her. And the 

initiator of this was not me. I didn’t care 

with whom to live, ”says Statkevich. 

Lyudmila Titova was afraid of the 

young rival for a reason. Nina then 

beat not only her teammate, but also 

confidently beat the strong Dutch 

women – future Olympic champion 

and World champion Steen Kayser 

and Atier Delstra, Olympic champion 

Anse Schute. Titova won at five hundred 

and a thousand, but in the total 

all-around was only ninth. Lasma Kauniste 

finished the competition in seventh 

position. 

“I arrived with a laurel wreath at the 

Moscow train station. It was half tied, 

only leaves sticking out. I got into a taxi 

early in the morning. The driver helped 

to put it in the trunk and says: "Just started 

to work – and immediately a wreath." 

During the trip, he talked about the 

European Championship. Like, the athletes 

made a lot of money. And I told 

him: “Why did you decide that they won 

a lot of money?” When he stopped at my 

front door, I said: “Thank you for driving 

me, I'm Nina Statkevich.” It was a shock 

for him.” 

As a sign of respect, the next European 

Championship, the International 

Skating Union (ISU) decides to hold 

the winner in Leningrad's homeland. 

Competitions were held on the ice of 

the stadium named after Lenin (today 

“Petrovsky”, the former home arena 

of the football “Zenith”). The ice was 

natural, and the capricious weather 

of St. Petersburg brought about some 

changes in the preparation for the 

start. 

“Throughout January, the weather 

was warm - from plus to minus. Foreigners 

were not very prepared for 

such conditions. Our team several times 

stood on the ice at the training stadium. 

Our foreign rivals did not know this. But 

there was no ice, just pieces, so it was 

impossible to conduct a full-fledged 

training. 

As it turned out, performing at home 

was much more difficult. I warned relatives 

and friends not to touch me. But 

you can’t tell everyone. Many were offended 

by me. Tried to see and wave. 

But I went out deaf. The concentration 

was maximum. 33 thousand spectators 

came – everything was packed. And the 

whole platform was from my factory 

with a huge poster: "Nina, 54th is with 

you! " 

Then the entire podium was occupied 

by Soviet speed skaters, who beat 

famous rivals from the Netherlands and 

Norway. Statkevich defended the title 

of the best all-around Europe. She won 

a one and a half and was second in one 

thousand and three. The silver medal in 

PROFILE: 

The main person’s quality 

There is no one. Must be honest, decent, 

open, good-natured. 

I do not like closed people. 

Superior quality for the athlete 

Industriousness 

Favorite Skate Training Tool 

Least of all I loved a bicycle. Most of 

all - work on equipment and athletics 

The best distance 

Medium and long – 1500, 3000 meters. 

Once ran five in Budapest and 

set a Union record. Then women 

didn’t run this distance yet 

Favourite track on one and a half 

At the big you start, at the small you 

finish, like that, in my opinion (laughs) 

Favorite expression 

Hope for the best, but don’t be bad 

too 

Favourite place on Earth 

For twenty years I have been in many 

places. Everywhere is good, but at 

home is better. There are many beautiful 

places in Russia. 

total was won by Lyudmila Titova, the 

bronze medal was won by Kapitolina 

Seregina. 

Just five days after the European 

championship in Helsinki, started the 

World Championship in all-around. Statkevich 

won it even more confidently, having 

brought the silver medalist Dutchwoman 

Steen Kayser in the amount 

of more than two points (the three remained 

with a margin of 12 seconds). 

The bronze in the overall standings was 

then won by Lyudmila Titova. 

To win two all-round events in a week 

(even if they hadn’t run five before) in difficult 

conditions on an outdoor ice rink 

now seems unrealistic. But then in a row 

three main starts of the season were located 

right away. 

“A week after Finland, they put me in 

Inzel for the sprint World championship. 

There was no mood. Mental and physical 

strength too. And there I became the 

seventh. " 

“DURING THE FLIGHT TO 

ALMA-ATA I LOST TWO 

KILOGRAMS” 

The famous mid-mountain skating 

rink Medeo, which was called the "factory 

of records", did not suit Nina Statkevich. 

“I liked running on flat skating rinks 

more, counting on my endurance and 

strength. I could not tolerate the height 

and, oddly enough, did not like to run on 

Medeo (the fastest ice rink at that time, 

located at an altitude of 1691 meters). 

This is due to acclimatization. I am an 

emotional person, and did not tolerate 



it well. I flew there by plane - I lost two 

kilograms. Moreover, there were always 

unequal conditions at this rink. The sun 

was setting and the weather was changing 

rapidly.” 

The skater won medals and won the 

European and World Championships, 

but the Olympics did not submit to her. 

“Everything was fine at the 1972 

Sapporo Games. I’m running 1000 meters, 

entering a small bend, and Lyuda 

Titova then ran back and drove along 

the warm-up track, deciding to shout 

something at me. But she pulled up so 

close that I saw her with peripheral vision 

and in fright that someone was riding 

on me, got up and jumped standing 

on the inner path. Then I realised that 

they could disqualify me, and I returned 

back to the small path. As a result, I got 

the fifth result, but we all were in one 

second. 

Before the 1976 Olympics (Innsbruck), 

I felt good, and I didn’t need Alma-Ata. 

Twenty days before the Games, I easily 

ran in a training session in Innsbruck in 

2:19 and a half - it was a silver medal. And 

then me and Averina (two-time Olympic 

champion Tatyana Averina) are sent to 

Medeo. My legs were down there, and I 

immediately felt bad. As a result, Averina 

ran a test start, but I did not. We were 

there only a few days. Then I already realized 

that nothing will work out at the 

Games.” 

Nina Statkevich won mainly due to 

her character and hard work, since she 

did not have good health from birth. 

Even before entering the national team, 

for health reasons, she was denied admission 

to the Institute of Physical Culture. 

P.F. Lesgaft. Although then, speed 

skater was already a master of sports. In 

a few years, she would nevertheless go 

to this university. 

“I MET MY FUTURE 

HUSBAND ON WARM-UPS. 

I TOLD HIM THE 

EXERCISES." 

Nina Andreyevna’s husband is a 

World champion, an honored coach 

of the USSR, candidate of pedagogical 

sciences Vladimir Kashchei. But when 

the young people only met, Nina told 

and gave advice to promising skater, 

who at that time already had the gold 

of the European and World championships. 

“It was in Sverdlovsk in 1972. There 

was nobody on warm-ups – only me and 

Volodya. I told him what jumps and exercises 

to do. That's how we periodically 

met while warm-ups. Then somehow 

he came and said that his friend did not 

go to the cinema, and there was a ticket. 

And I was without any other thoughts, I 

seriously thought about nothing then. 

We went to the cinema, and it was full of 

our people (laughs). He also bought ice 

cream, they all looked at once like that. 

And it was funny for me. The ticket disappeared 

from a person.” 

After this gathering, Nina and Vladimir 

rarely saw each other. She ran all-around, 

he was a sprinter. During episodic meetings 

they only greeted each other. 

“Then he sent me a letter with a postcard, 

in which there was a Happy New 

Year congratulation. And called me so 

unusual, “Nincha.” I think: Who is this? 

There was no signature. 

Somehow we met in Medeo. While 

we were in Alma-Ata, I was invited to see 

Moscow. He studied there, and he was 

from the Kuibyshev region. And then he 

said strait ahead: “We must be together!“. 

Vovka was persistent, decisive. We 

had a wedding in St. Petersburg. Then, 

on June 27, 1973, we watched from the 

balcony (a bed for guests of honor) the 

graduation’s show "Alie Parusa". 

Now Nina Andreevna calls Vladimir 

Ivanovich "dad." In the family, he has always 

been and remains the main one. 

But then the newlyweds decided to live 

not in Moscow, but in Leningrad. 

“There was a time when we were offered 

a three-room apartment on Prospekt 

Mira in Moscow. But I had a tworoom 

apartment with a balcony and 

furniture. My mother and brother lived 

in Leningrad, but he still had no one in 

the capital. We were given an apartment 

on Budapestkaya, with a living area of 

39 meters. And they said: “Should they 

skate around the apartment?’’ 

“FOR THE NEW YEAR 

I MADE TIRAMISU” 

While we were talking with Nina Andreevna, 

her youngest daughter, the 

winner of the 1999 Russian Ice Skating 

Championship Nina Kashchey, arrived 

with her husband Leonid. After this interview 

smoothly turned into a warm 

friendly conversation. We drank tea with 

Nina Statkevich's signature cake. 

“I myself seek a job. I'm used to doing 

something. Gleb (14-year-old son of Nina 

Kashchei) has grown healthy. He comes 

after school, first comes here, I feed him, 

and then goes on to training or to a theater 

studio,” Nina Andreevna answers the 

question about love for cooking. 

Today, the famous skater takes care of 

her grandchildren. Besides Gleb, she has 

a granddaughter Christina - the child of 

Victoria's eldest daughter. She is in her 

second year at the Faculty of Oriental 

Languages at the A. I. Herzen University. 

The girl perfectly passed the last exam of 

the session and was in the top three selected 

for a trip to China. 

“In my youth, I cooked so many things! 

There were so different sweets on the table! 

For this New Year, in addition to traditional 

Russian style cooked meat and 

salads, I made tiramisu. Finnish cookies 

and cream were specially bought for it. 

Gleb baked his traditional cake Napoleon. 

Nina makes roasted turkey.” 

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HISTORY OF WORLD SPORT 

15 YEARS SINCE THE FIRST 

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 

IN ICE SKATING IN RUSSIA: 

LUZHKOV’S TEARS, SHOCK FROM 

KRYLATSKOE AND “RUSSIAN MAFIA” 

Rescue of the skating rink, the conflict 

of world champions, “rustic ice”, a bursted 

roof and tennis on ice. Former Krylatskoe 

leader Mikhail Zagainov, World champion 

Ivan Skobrev, World Cup winners 

Evgeny Lalenkov and Alexander Kibalko, 

Russian champion Olga Tarasova and, 

of course, Moscow World Cup triumph 

Shani Davis talk about a historic event. 

Skating is the most medal-intensive 

sport at the Winter Olympics – 14 disciplines. 

At the European Championship 

in January in Heerenveen, Russian team 

won 17 medals (5–6–6), losing to the 

Dutch team only in the number of gold 

medals (8–5–3). But in the history there 

was a period when our team was far 

from the podium. 

THE WORLD'S FIRST 

INDOOR SKATING RINK IN 

LENINGRAD 

Today in Russia there are three roofed 

skating stadiums – in Moscow, in Kolomna 

and in Chelyabinsk. An arena is being 

built in Irkutsk, the construction of a stadium 

in Kemerovo has begun, the possibility 

of restoring the Olympic oval in Sochi 

is being discussed, Nikolai Valuev and 

Svetlana Zhurova are planning to build a 

skating rink near St. Petersburg, an arena 

is being designed in Perm. 

Few people know that the skating rink 

named after Lenin which was opened in 

Leningrad for the Olympics 1980 was the 

first indoor ice rink in the world. The oval 

had a non-standard length – 333 meters. 

At that time the USSR championships 

were held there and even foreigners 

came to train. The skating rink worked 

mainly in summer, but during Olympic 

seasons the team prepared there in winter 

as well. However, after the dissolution 

of the Soviet Union, the complex lost its 

speed skating functionality. A few days 

ago, the building was demolished with 

the aim of constructing a new arena 

for hockey SCA in its place. During the 

dismantling of the skating rink, due to 

non-compliance with safety regulations, 

one of the workers died. 

They started talking about the construction 

of an indoor ice rink in Leningrad 

in the middle of the last century. 

Layouts were made, a place was chosen 

for the arena, but all ideas remained only 

on paper and the words of officials, one 

of whom was Olympic champion in skating 

Evgeny Kulikov, who worked in the 

nineties as chairman of the city sports 

committee. 

NEW PALACE FOR TWO 

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 

At the 1998 Games in Japan, Nagano, 

the best performance of Russian skaters 

was the ninth place of the leaders of the 

national team – two Svetlanas – Bazhanova 

(1500 m) and Zhurova (500 m). 



Such a failure was easy to explain. Firstly, 

there was a revolution in the design 

of skates, and the Russian team began 

to use hinged skates (known as “clap 

skates”) one of the last. Secondly, there 

were no conditions for preparation. The 

whole world began to train on indoor ice 

rinks, but in Russia there was not a single 

roofed ice rink and the country's championship 

- the selection for the Olympics, 

had to be held in Berlin. 

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov remembered 

very well how, in 1962, in Luzhniki 

107 thousand spectators (a record of 

attendance in skates) witnessed the victories 

of the great ones: Evgeny Grishin, 

Boris Stenin, Victor Kosichkin. These 

memories contrasted sharply with what 

they saw in Nagano. During the Games, 

Luzhkov had a conversation with President 

of the International Skating Union 

(ISU) Ottavio Cinquanta. 

“Then Cinquanto told me that they 

made an agreement with Luzhkov - Russia 

was to build an indoor ice rink, and 

ISU was supposed to give the country 

the opportunity to hold the World championship 

in ice skating. Initially, it was 

only a question of speed skating, but 

then Yuri Mikhailovich asked to entrust 

Moscow with the World championship 

in figure skating as well. As a result, we 

agreed on two tournaments, ”recalls the 

winner of the World Ice Skating Cup, the 

head of the ISU tech committee, Alexander 

Kibalko. 

Almost four years have passed since 

then (we remember the Russian crisis 

that thundered in August, 1998). The final 

decision on the construction of the 

rink was made only at the end of 2001 

during a repeated meeting of the mayor 

with a sports official. 

ZAGAINOV ANSWERED 

LUZHKOV: “I CAN 

SAY A LOT ABOUT THE 

CONSTRUCTION, BUT ALL 

THE WORDS WILL BE 

OBSCENE” 

For the construction of the stadium, a 

place was allocated in Krylatskoye next 

to the cycle track and rowing canal, since 

this area was considered to be a sports 

area. But the location of the skating 

rink caused a lot of complaints among 

skaters and coaches because of the remoteness 

of the facility. But then no one 

even thought of consulting with sports 

schools. 

Foreigners with experience in the 

construction of such facilities were 

not involved, and Russian designers at 

some point ceased to understand what 

they were creating. Yuri Luzhkov came 

to the construction site every Saturday 

and during one of his visits, workers revealed 

that they did not understand how 

to build the country's first indoor speed 

skating stadium. Then the mayor of Moscow 

told the chairman of the city sports 

committee Sergey Korol that if he did 

not find a competent person in a week, 

Korol would lose his job. 

“Sergey Korol called me and asked: 

“Do you understand anything in ice preparation? 

Fly here urgently!”, recalls the 

former chief engineer of the high-mountain 

skating rink“ Medeo ”, the former 

general director of Krylatskoye Mikhail 

Zagainov. 

“At a meeting in Moscow, Luzhkov 

asked my opinion about the construction 

site. I replied: “I can say a lot, but all 

my words will be obscene.” He cursed 

and then asked where the designers 

should go to learn construction technology”, 

adds Zagainov. 

As a result, Mikhail went with the 

working group to Nagano to the M-Wave 

Olympic Oval. 

“After this trip, construction went 

more actively. But there were many difficulties. 

Starting from the equipment 

supply and ending with the launching of 

the rink. We realized that Moscow was at 

zero level (the fastest ice on high-mountain 

skating rinks) and it would be difficult 

to make good ice. I kept on telling Yuri 

Mikhailovich that a beautiful building 

would not solve the problem, we needed 

technology, we had to understand 

what “fast ice” was. He stood against for 

a long time, but then agreed. He created 

a scientific group, which was working on 

making high-speed ice during the whole 

construction period. I went to Medeo, 

picked up the archive, started collecting 

materials for ice preparation and, in the 

end, we came to a decision how to make 

ice for the World Cup. ” 

“THERE WAS NO ROOF 

YET, SPARKS WERE FLYING, 

ATHLETES WERE SKATING” 

“In the fall of 2004, Luzhkov arrived at 

the next meeting, and I said:“ Yuri Mikhailovich, 

I have some questions to discuss. 

We need to meet in the arena.” And he 

replied: “But what would I do there, I’ve 

already been there. I do not want to go 

there again". I persuaded him. Workers 

were doing the welding, sparks were 

flying from the ceiling, athletes were 

skating along the paths. I invited Sayutin 

(vice-champion of the World Vadim 

Sayutin), Kibalko (winner of the World 

Cup Alexander Kibalko), Bazhanov (master 

of sports Nikita Bazhanov, brother of 

Olympic champion Svetlana Bazhanova). 

Before Luzhkov left the arena, they 

put on the song “Moscow, the Bells are 

Ringing”. There was no roof yet, sparks 

were flying, athletes were skating”. Yuri 

Mikhailovich even shed a tear and said: 

“Well done! I knew that we would erect 

the building, but I was not sure if we 

would manage to make the ice,” Zagainov 

recalls. 

“Between the training camps, we 

turned up in Moscow, and Mikhail Vladimirovich, 

as a friend, asked us to skate. 

There weren’t even any safety boards 

yet. Around was a construction site, everything 

was in the dust. But the rink was 

iced. We approached a delegation led by 

Luzhkov, and he asked us about the ice. 



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It was still not quite even, but generally 

good, ”says Kibalko. 

Already in September, the rest part 

of the Russian athletes who came from 

all over the country, from Khabarovsk to 

Murmansk, were able to test the ice of 

the new stadium. The author of the article 

was among the lucky ones. While the 

schedule had not yet been established, 

we skated in an inconvenient daytime. 

But after open-air skating rinks, where I 

had to fight with the wind and snow, run 

in a thin jumpsuit at minus 25 degrees 

Centigrate, it was a real paradise – in the 

arena +13 degrees, the ice was fast, you 

could skate in a thin jumpsuit on a naked 

body and without gloves. 

But the first international competition 

in the new arena was not skating 

competition. At the end of November, 

tennis cover was laid on the ice of Krylatskoe 

for the final matches of the Federation 

Cup. The Russian team won its 

first title in history then, being stronger 

than the French team (3 : 2). Two weeks 

later, the European Junior Ice Skating 

Games became a test check before the 

World Cup. 

“The Dutch then did not expect that 

such fast ice could be prepared in Moscow 

and they began to fly away at bends. 

After that, they began to look for flaws in 

the ice cover. But, together with German 

Mikhailovich (German Panov, member of 

the Council of the International Skating 

Union (ISU), we defended our technology,” 

says Mikhail Zagainov. 

The competitions were shown live in 

full (and it were several hours) on a federal 

channel. Speed skating had never 

received so much airtime on television 

before. 

“GREY ICE GAVE THE RINK 

A RUSTIC LOOK” 

At the first world speed skating championship 

in Russia, the seven thousandth 

arena filled to capacity was painted in 

orange colors by the Netherlands fans, 

there was a separate sector for Norwegian 

fans who traditionally wore red 

skating hats, Germany was represented 

in the stands by fans dressed as “nuns”. 

And, of course, famous veterans of Soviet 

skates met in Krylatskoe. The winner of 

the 1962 Moscow World Cup, a great athlete 

Evgeny Grishin, was also in the box 

of honored guests. The Russian team, 

accustomed to competing abroad, experienced 

additional pressure at home. 

“The coaches tried to set us up so that 

we focused only on our distance, not 

paying attention to the surrounding atmosphere. 

After five hundred meters, it 

became psychologically easier and the 

last five I could feel how home stands 

supported me, ”says World Cup winner 

Evgeny Lalenkov. 

To watch this event, I even ran away 

from the Chelyabinsk camp. At 6 am, I 

arrived at the Kazan railway station and 

bought two Sport Express newspapers 

right away. On the cover of one of them 

there was a photo of World champion 

Shani Davis, the future championship 

winner. To the question of Alexander Lyubimov, 

who would win the world championship, 

he answered: “I will”. 

“I don’t know if I was so confident in 

myself then. But I thought that I needed 

to answer that way. I believed that I 

could. I don’t think it would have sounded 

good if I had said that someone else 

would win”, the two-time Olympic champion 

recalls today. 

The main favorites of the tournament 

were the Americans. In addition to Davis, 

Chad Hadrick, 50-time World champion 

in roller-skates, arrived in Moscow to 

defend the title. Both athletes were exotic 

for skates. Davis – went to the start, 

yawning, ran sprinting and classic allaround 

in one season and admitted that 

he liked the short track more. Chad had 

a double push technique, which he was 

the first to use on roller-skates and then 

transferred to the ice. 

Foreigners were shocked by the Russian 

arena. In Europe and the USA, the 

skating rinks were small, demountable, 

as economical as possible, but here was 

a real palace. “The Russian mafia built the 

stadium,” – they said then. 

“Krylatskoe was one of the most 

beautiful skating rinks. It was one of 

the first where I saw security and metal 

detectors. It created some concern. But 

everything went safely and successfully. 

The ice rinks were usually white, but 

here the ice undercoat was not painted. 

It gave the ice such a rustic look, ”said 

Davis. 

The ice of the new stadium for the first 

time had a grey tint due to the color of 

concrete, which was under the ice mass. 

But these are the requirements of the 

icing technology – in the first year, salts 

and chemical elements should come out 

of the concrete slab, so you can not paint 

over the pores of its surface. 

SHANI DAVIS WOKEN UP 

FOR AN AUTOGRAPH 

Back then, Russian athletes could not 

please the home stands with medals, but 

they remembered this start for life. 

“The Italians went to Arbat to buy matreshkas 

at exorbitant prices, whereas 

Nicola and I (Italian speed skater Nicola 

Mayr) agreed – if she liked the matreshka, 

she would say nothing but nod. As a 

result, we bought them at a reasonable 

price for rubles, and Fabrice (Olympic 

champion Enrico Fabrice) paid much 

more in dollars, ”says Russian champion 

Olga Tarasova. 

At that time, there were no signs in 

English in the subway, and many people 

ordered a taxi. It was not far from the International 

Hotel to the arena. Hedrick 

decided to take a taxi. When we arrived 

at the place, the driver asked a startled 

American several hundred dollars for the 

trip. The world champion refused to pay 

such an amount. Then the taxi driver got 

out and blocked the door. Chad was not 

at a loss – he kicked out the window and 

climbed out of the car. 



But, in general, the atmosphere 

during that championship was friendly. 

“After the start, I was spinning the 

bike. My 12-year daughter, Ira, was with 

me at the stadium. She spoke English 

well and fell into conversation with her 

namesake Ireen Wüst (Olympic champion, 

Dutch, Ireen Wüst) and eventually 

left for the hotel with the Netherland 

team. When I arrived, the Dutch were entertaining 

her. That was one big family. 

But the funniest episode happened right 

during the competitions. Ira approached 

Shani Davis when he was dozing, preparing 

for a decisive distance of 10 km. 

She woke him up, introduced herself as 

Olga Tarasova’s daughter and asked for 

an autograph. He laughed and signed,” 

Tarasova recalls. 

To become a world champion, Davis 

could not lose more than 5 seconds to 

Hedrick in the longest distanc. A year before, 

in Norway, Shani was far ahead, but 

he could not hold the lead and allowed 

Chad to win gold. 

“I was better at running middle distances 

and at ten I always had to do my 

best. I remember I promised myself that I 

would not miss the 10 km advantage, as 

it happened a year before at the World 

Championships in Hamar. I prepared a lot 

for this distance, learned how to choose 

the right pace and distribute energy rationally. 

I then gave all my strength and 

was able to win. This is probably one of 

the happiest moments of my life!” the 

American recalls. 

“Chad was so upset that he left his 

silver medal in the locker room. Shani 

didn't like it. It was one of the seeds of 

conflict between the skaters. I communicated 

well with both. Then I talked with 

their partner in the national team Casey 

Butiet, and understood why they could 

not run the team race together,” says 

world champion Ivan Skobrev. 

The best among the Russians at the 

World Cup was Skobrev, who finished 

ninth. Evgeny Lalenkov became the 

twelfth, Olga Tarasova was placed in the 

fifteenth position, and Svetlana Vysokova 

became the nineteenth. 

“The competitions were organized 

at the highest level. Of course, we were 

worried at home start. I was not a leader 

then, and it was difficult to be on the 

podium. I fought for getting into the top 

ten (12 people were selected for the last 

all-around event),” Skobrev explains. 

The world champion in Moscow became 

the German Annie Friesenger. Her 

countryman, five-time Olympic champion 

Claudia Pechstein, who continues to 

perform at 47, was the third, and Canadian 

Cindy Klassen won silver. 

Shani Davis became the first black 

world champion, Chad Hedrick won silver, 

and 18-year-old Dutchman Sven Kramer 

who won his first medal at the World Cup 

closed the top three winners (then he won 

the World Championship 9 times). 

“Russia was very different from America. 

Different culture, food, language that 

sounded more aggressive. People were 

not so friendly and sociable. But as soon 

as we started training on the ice and participating 

in the championship, everything 

changed. We were accompanied by 

a police escort who helped us navigate in 

the complex. I am proud that I was able to 

be in Moscow and become a part of the 

history of that World Cup. Russia is rich 

in its history and culture. Usually I'm not 

very interested in sightseeing, but when I 

had the opportunity to be in Russia, I was 

happy to get acquainted with the history 

of this country. Most of the highlights of 

my career are associated with Russia, and 

I hope that in my coaching there will still 

be an opportunity to be back there again,” 

says Shani Davis. 

CLOSING OF KRYLATSKOE 

AND THE SECOND LIFE OF 

THE ARENA 

After three years of operation, a loud 

Bang was heard over the dome of the 

arena. As it turned out later, in one of the 

shrouds that was holding the roof of the 

complex, a connecting part burst and the 

Krylatskoe was closed for almost a year. 

“The design was well calculated by the 

designers, and the complex did not go 

into an emergency. It was just necessary 

to repair this node. It was a production 

defect, which is officially confirmed. The 

Ural plant, which originally manufactured 

these parts, quickly made a replacement 

and in a short time the safety shrouds were 

designed,” explains Mikhail Zagainov. 

In October last year, due to the demolition 

of the Olympic stadium, the Kremlin 

Cup tennis tournament moved to 

Krylatskoe. At this time, skaters were in 

the middle of the season, and for a whole 

month, Moscow athletes had to look for 

another place to train. The nearest indoor 

skating rink is a hundred kilometers 

away in Kolomna. 

“Initially, in the center of the arena, an 

exit for athletes from the locker rooms 

was made, which excluded holding ball 

hockey at the stadium. We sealed it up 

and provided a cold supply. This arena 

can host up to sixteen sports. Such 

structures are multifunctional all over 

the world. You can’t selfishly assume that 

this rink is made only for one sport,” Zagainov 

believes. 

Over the past fifteen years, Krylatskoe 

has hosted several world Championships 

and stages of the world Cup in ice skating, 

the World short track championship, 

the world bandy championship, the Federation 

Cup and the Kremlin Cup in tennis. 

Today, apart from skaters, three-time 

winner of the world Cup in bandy club 

“Dynamo“ trains in the complex, there 

are classes in figure skating and even 

billiards, and at the weekend, Moscow 

citizens can enjoy skating on the best ice 

in the city. Therefore, major international 

speed skating competitions were last 

held at the arena eight years ago. Only 

time will show whether big skates will 

return to Krylatskoe or not. 

PoKatit blog article (Sports.ru) 



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RUSSIA TAKES 10 OUT OF 12 MEDALS 

AT FIGURE SKATING EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP 

IN GRAZ (AUSTRIA) 

R 

ussian skaters made a triumph 

at the European Championships 

in Graz, Austria, winning 

10 out of 12 medals of the tournament. 

The Russians won all kinds of programs. 

In total, the team won 4 gold, 3 

silver and 4 bronze medals. 

Eteri Tutberidze's athletes took the 

whole podium in women's single skating 

in Graz. Alyona Kostornaya became 

European Champion with the total sum 

of 240.81 points. Silver medal went to 

Anna Shcherbakova (237.76) and bronze 

to Alexandra Trusova (225.34). 

In pair skating, Russians did not let 

their rivals to the medals. Alexandra 

Boykova/Dmitry Kozlovsky (234.58) won 

the competition, Evgeniya Tarasova and 

Vladimir Morozov (208.64) took the second 

step of the podium, and Darya Pavlyuchenko/Denis 

Khodykin (206.53) closed 

the third place. 

Among male singles, the best was 

Dmitry Aliev (272.89). His countryman 

Artur Danielyan (246.74) was second. 

Third place went to the representative 

of Georgia Maurice Kvitelashvili 

(246.71). 

Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov 

(220.42) took the lead in ice dance. 

Silver went to the French duo Gabriela 

Papadakis and Guillaume Cicero 

(220.28), bronze went to Russian athletets 

Alexandra Stepanova/Ivan Bukin 

(211.29). 

It was the first time in 14 years that 

such a great result was achieved. At 

Euro 2006 in Lyon, France, the winners 

were Irina Slutskaya, Evgeny Plushenko, 

Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marininin, 

Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov. 

Figure skating 

Photo: Maria Yevteeva 



Фото: http://sportgymrus.ru 

Е. Михайловой 2020 EUROPEAN 

CHAMPIONSHIP 

IN RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS: 

VICTORY OF ARINA AVERINA, A SENSATION FROM 15-YEAR- 

OLD LALA KRAMARENKO AND DINA AVERINA'S INJURY 

I 

n the Palace of Gymnastics 

of Irina Viner-Usmanova the 

Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics 

Championship was finished. The main 

attention of the audience was focused 

on the performance of the national team 

leaders in individual all-around events. 

The lower tier of the stands was 

placed in the undertribune room, and 

five carpets – one competitive and four 

training carpets – were placed in the 

arena at once, so the spectators had a 

unique opportunity not only to see the 

performances themselves, but also to 

see the preparation of gymnasts for their 

starts. 

Arina Averina couldn't win any individual 

routine. She was second in clubs 

and third in ribbon, hoop and ball exercises. 

But the stable performance in all 

kinds of exercises allowed her to defend 

the title won a year ago. Her total score 

was 94.55 points. 

The tournament was not without a 

sensation – 15-year-old Lala Kramarenko 

won routine with a hoop and a ribbon, 

was second in exercises with a ball and 

third in exercises with clubs. In the final 

report she was placed on the second position 

(93.70). 

Dina Averina won the competition 

with a ball and clubs, but failed to perform 

with a ribbon (7th place) and a 

hoop (12th). By the sum she became the 

third (92.45). After the performance the 

gymnast complained about her back injury 

and could not even go to the awarding 

ceremony. 

The world champion Ekaterina Selezneva, 

like a year ago, took the fourth 

place in the final score (90.55). 

INDIVIDUAL ALL-AROUND EVENTS: 

1. Arina Averina - 94.550 points 

2. Lala Kramarenko - 93.700 

3. Dina Averina - 92.450 

4. Ekaterina Selezneva - 90.550 

5. Anastasia Guzenkova - 88.300 

6. Anastasia Simakova - 85.800 

7. Maria Pobedushkina - 85.450 

8. Daria Pridannikova - 85.050 

9. Daria Trubnikova - 84.150 

10. Dariya Sergaeva - 83.600 

IRINA VINER-USMANOVA: 

“DINA AVERINA WAS TO 

BE WITHDRAWN FROM THE 

COMPETITIONS, 

BUT THEY DIDN’T TELL ME 

ABOUT HER INJURY.“ 

The Russian rhythmic gymnastics 

team went to the Grand Prix stage in 

Estonian Tartu this weekend. Earlier in 

Moscow, the individual all-around finals 

of the Russian championship were completed. 

A sensation at the tournament 

was the second place of 15-year-old Lala 

Kramarenko, who managed to beat 13 

times world champion Dina Averina. But 

head coach of the Russian national team 

Irina Viner-Usmanova does not consider 

such a result as unexpected. 



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“There used to be such cases before. 

Kudryavtseva (13-time World Champion 

Yana Kudryavtseva) was not yet 16, and 

she has already won the World Cup in 

Kiev. Zhenechka Kanayeva (2-time Olympic 

champion, 17-time world champion 

Yevgeniya Kanayeva) got to the world 

championship at the age of 18. Lala (silver 

medallist of the Russian championship 

Lala Kramarenko) is a talented girl, 

she was the only one at the championship 

who passed all without gross mistakes. 

She is the only gymnast to have 

sustained her nerves. She had one small 

loss on the ball, but she did everything 

else clean,“ said Viner-Usmanova. 

– Dina Averina couldn't make it to 

the awards because of her back injury. 

– Dina had to be withdrawn. But she 

and the doctors who were next to her 

didn't tell me anything about the injury. 

Unfortunately, she had a bad back injury 

and couldn't participate in the parade. 

That happens sometimes. 

– Arina Averina was injured during 

the Grand Prix in Moscow. How is she 

feeling now? 

– Arina's doing fine, thank God. When 

she saw that Dina performed badly with 

ribbon, she got herself together and did 

it very well. 

– How do you evaluate other gymnasts' 

performance? 

After the Grand Prix (held in Moscow 

on February 7–9), the girls relaxed a little 

and did not work out the program 

properly. But when the Championship 

of Russia comes, we have to perform. 

Trubnikova (junior Olympic winner 

Darya Trubnikova) performed worse today 

than in the Grand Prix. But still she is 

growing, she was given new ribbon exercises. 

Selezneva (2-time world champion 

Ekaterina Selezneva) performed 

well today too, although she made one 

silly mistake. There is Pobedushkina (participant 

of the Grand Prix series Maria 

Pobedushkina), a good girl, who is making 

progress now, and I'm watching her 

closely. So there's more gunpowder in 

the gunpowder. 

– And in group exercises? 

– And in group exercises there are 

young girls who won the Junior World 

Championship here last year. Today they 

are already preparing for the Olympics. 

This is both the Moscow team and the 

first national team. There will be a rotation 

all the time – we will look at the 

preparation and put them in the national 

team. Competitions are held every week, 

the girls will compete. 

– Will the programs of gymnasts' 

performances for the European Championship 

in Kiev be changed? 

– Of course, everything will become 

more complicated and different. Some 

compositions will be added to the music. 

We move forward all the time. We are 

not standing in the same place. As Boris 

Yakovlevich Eifman said, every time it's 

another ballet. 

ARINA AVERINA: 

“I CONSIDER MYSELF MY 

MAIN RIVAL.“ 

– Arina, how do you assess your 

physical condition? 

– I don't know, it's hard to right now. 

There's still a lot of work to be done. After 

an injury at the Moscow Grand Prix, 

I competed fully for the first time, because 

then I had to be withdrawn from 

the competition. 

– Was the injury healed? 

– Almost. 

– Your sister Dina couldn't get up 

after the performance because of her 

back injury. How is she feeling now? 

– Oh, God, she will be okay. 

– It didn't work out at the beginning 

of the competition. How did you get 

together after the first appearance? 

– No, I just went out and did what 

we worked on with Irina Alexandrovna 

(head coach of the Russian national 

team Irina Viner-Usmanova). 

– Who do you consider your main 

rival? 

– Myself (smiling). 

– What is the mood for the Grand 

Prix in Tartu? 

– We`ll have a little rest and fight 

again with new strength. 

LALA KRAMARENKO, 

THE SILVER MEDALIST 

OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC: 

“I DON'T WANT TO 

TALK ABOUT FIGHTING 

FOR A MEDAL IN THE 

OLYMPICS.“ 

– Lala, this is your second adult 

competition after the University 

Games. How did you feel about them? 

– I am very pleased to fight against 

such famous gymnasts who perform at 

the world sports arena. 

– Was it hard to get on the podium? 

– Yes, it's always hard to perform at 

adult tournaments. I am very grateful 

to my coaches who gave me the opportunity 

to perform here. They are Liasan 

Insafovna Savitskaya (Honored Coach of 

the Russian Federation) and Irina Aleksandrovna 

(Head Coach of the Russian 

national team Irina Viner-Usmanova). 

– Only two gymnasts will go to the 

Olympics. How will you fight? 

– I don't even know, I don't want to 

talk about it. God willing. I don't feel like 

making predictions. 

– Are you going to change the 

program at the European Championships? 

– I do not know if I go to the European 

Championship at all, because there 

are Dina, Arina, Katya Selezneva – a lot 

of good gymnasts. I haven’t yet thought 

about it. 



R 

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY: 

RUSSIA WON THE MEDAL STANDINGS 

AT THE WORLD LUGE CHAMPIONSHIPS 

IN SOCHI 

ussian lugers won 8 medals – 

5 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze. 

For the first time in history, 

our national team won the overall medal 

standings. 

Roman Repilov and Ekaterina Katnikova, 

who won the singles and sprint 

events, climbed twice to the top of the 

podium. Alexander Denisiev and Vladislav 

Antonov were second in the duel, 

and won gold in the sprint. Tatyana Ivanova 

was the second in the sprint, and 

Victoria Demchenko was the third in the 

singles competition. 

Second place in the team classification 

was taken by Germany – 5 medals (2, 1, 2), 

and the third was Austria – 3 (0, 2, 1). 

The 49th World Luge Championships 

were held in Sochi at the Olympic Sledging 

and Bobsleigh Track “Sanki“ from 14 

to 16 February. 

Roman Repilov 

Photo: Wikipedia 



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VASILY ARTEMYEV: 

“THE UMPIRE IN RUGBY 

IS GOD ALMIGHTY“ 

T 

he Russian national team is not 

yet among the world rugby 

leaders. But since the autumn 

of 2019 this sport has been experiencing 

a sharp jump in popularity. Russians’ interest 

in rugby was largely due to the vivid 

English-language interview of the 

team’s captain Vasily Artemyev. In our 

new heading “13 answers“ of the most 

abrupt of the Russian athletes men with 

a big mustache has told about life in Ireland, 

return to Russia, transition to CSKA, 

rugby for kids and family. 

REFERENCE: VASILY ARTEMYEV, 

32 years, was born in Zelenograd. Height: 

183 cm, weight: 87 kg. A position – the 

defender (three-forths). Nicknames: professor, 

moustached captain. Clubs: "Leinster" (Ireland, 

2007), "VVA – Podmoskovye" (2008–2011), 

"Nortgemptonseynts" (2011–2013, England), 

"Red Yar" (2013–2019), CSKA (since 2019). In 

Russian national team since 2009 he has played 

50 matches. 

MOVING IN 14 YEARS TO 

IRELAND 

After 9th grade, my parents wanted 

to send me abroad for a year to learn 

English. As for me the main thing was 

to find a country where I can play rugby. 

There was no Internet as such. You 

couldn’t find at anything on Youtube, 

so the information about my final destination 

was scarce. I ended up in one 

of the strongest rugby schools of the 

world – the Alma Mater of the Irish children's 

rugby, the private Catholic school. 

For me it has opened up another way of 

thinking about the game. For a 15-yearold 

boy to see a match in the stands of 

20 thousand people in a cup-final of the 

County of Leinster was inexpressible. In 

Russia there were only parents among 

the audience, and that is not always the 

case (laughs). 

RETURN TO RUSSIA AND 

THE NATIONAL TEAM’S 

OWN WAY 

In Ireland, I even played double for 

a professional club for a while. But it 

didn’t work out. When playing for the 

student team, I was recommended by 

my friends to the coaches of the Russian 

national team. At that time the team was 

preparing for the 2011 World Cup selection. 

And so I ended up in the national 

team, and at the club level “VVA – Podmoskovye“. 

By that time, we’d been dating 

Sonya for a year. She was a pediatrician. 

I flew with her to England (in 2011 

Vasily moved to «Northampton Seines»). 

At school she studied French and did not 

know English. We have lived abroad for 3 

years. As a result she has learned English. 

But after the wedding, before the kids 

were born, we all weighed it, we thought 

about it, and we decided to go back to 

Russia. 

The Russian national team, with the 

exception of a few players that we have 

played abroad, is the product of our 



championship. All boys are born in Russia. 

And our club championship is inferior 

to European tournaments. It’s basically 

two different sports. 

A year and a half ago, the coaching 

staff has changed. Usually the team is 

formed four years before the World Cup, 

and we’ve only had eleven months to do 

so. What we’ve been able to do in that 

time is amazing. Now everyone knows 

us as a relentless team. For example, 

Japan lost 90 points at the World Cup 

eight years ago to New Zealand’s hostess, 

over 50 points to France.They scored 

weaker than Russia does today. And now 

this team is beating Ireland, Scotland. 

They’ve come to a new level through 

the long-term planning. The Japanese 

were eligible to host the 2019 World Cup 

and faced great challenges. But Russia 

has another way – we don’t have the 

opportunity to pull players out of rugby 

countries. We have to develop our championship. 

TRANSITION TO CSKA 

Six years I spent in one of the strongest 

clubs of the country – Krasnoyarsk 

«Krasnyi Yar». But in 2019 I accepted an 

offer from CSKA, which only has existed 

for five years. Today it is not just a club, 

but an entire rugby family. In many ways, 

that’s what impressed me, and of course, 

the team’s ambitions and goals. The first 

year beginners will play in a professional 

league, and in four years the club should 

reach the level of the championship. This 

is a new challenge for me. There are ambitious 

people in the leadership, and the 

CSK. 

CONDITIONS OF RUGBY IN 

RUSSIA 

In the club capital of Russian rugby – 

Krasnoyarsk, there are two purely rugby 

stadiums. There’s a longitude in Monino 

where one of our strongest clubs trains 

«VVA – Podmoskovye». They’ve been 

building it for ten years. There’s going to 

be a rugby center of attraction. In Moscow 

there is a classic old stadium “Slava“on 

Selezhnovskaya which is currently 

under reconstruction. The excellent infrastructure 

in Zelenograd is a modern 

artificial field, and there’s a whole sports 

complex. There’s a reason why kids’ rugby 

is so good. 

RUGBY FOR KIDS 

Our sport is introduced in schools and 

almost in kindergartens. Tag rugby rules 

are like regular rugby, only instead of 

gripping, kids should tear down ribbons 

that are attached to the player’s belt. For 

children, even in a mixed format, boys 

and girls have a lot of fun. And then 

there’s the touch-rugby, where instead 

of a grab, you touch the other guy with 

two hands. 

I’m against of specializing at an early 

age. Especially in gaming there’s no 

need. Sometimes it’s even bad. In rugby, 

you learn dynamically and evolve in 

different directions. As my trainer in the 

90s Kazak Vasily Filipovich said: “Rugby 

player should be the Candidate for Master 

of Sport in handball, volleyball and 

football“. There should always be a spirit 

of competition. We have a very demanding 

look for force, functional, technical 

preparation. There are tendencies in 

Russia when force training is given too 

early, but tactical understanding of the 

game by such guys limps, and it is rare 

for anyone to achieve high-level results 

in sports. 

INJURIES AND PROTECTION 

In the first line one of the situations 

of the game is called “appointed fight“, 

or, in English, scrum. That’s when 8 people 

queue up 3–2–3 and on command 

of the judge begins the struggle with 

the rival. There’s a risk of injury at this 

point. If there’s a lot of trauma in a row, 

the ears are flooded like wrestlers. To 

keep them from sticking out during the 

game, they’re often tagged. Personally, 

I play without a helmet, and most 

kids as well. It depends on attitude and 

habit. But it’s best for children to use 

it. 15-year-old Japanese rugby players 

came to Krasnoyarsk once. They were 

all wearing helmets. In Russia, there’s no 

such thing as a bonnet. And in Ireland, 

before the match, the referee kept a 

close eye on it. 

Our uniform for the last 15 years 

has undergone many changes. For example, 

the rugby (rugby T-shirt) used 

to be wide and waxed during the run 

like a sail. Now it’s stretching the body, 

and it’s harder to stop the rival. Now 

you can’t make a clutch, you have to 

take the right position. Sometimes they 

torn-apart and can get blood-stained. 

In these cases, you have to change it 

during a match. It’s not right to play in 

bloody uniform. 

ABOUT HIS POSITION ON 

THE FIELD 

My position is the extreme 

three-quarters. It’s used in the final 

stage of the attack. I play number 15 

to track the other guy’s leg. We have a 

lot of them - tactical, offensive kicks. I 

have a wide-ranging role in the attack 

– to see where you’re more useful and 

to take part in the attacks. I played with 

different captains. Someone talked less 

and did a lot, someone talked and did a 

lot. I’m more of a second choice – I like 

to play on the field, because my position 

is a little stretched. I’m not always 

in the thick of it. 

ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE 

JUDGE 

The fundamental thing about rugby 

is respect for the partners, the opponent 

and, above all, the judge. He is a king 

and a god on the field. You can only address 

him as «sir» and I am serious. If you 

touch a referee, as it happens sometimes 

to push a referee in football, then you 

will get a disqualification for six months. 

The only way to communicate with the 

judge is through the Captain. Before the 

game, he always comes into the locker 

room and communicates with us. 



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RUGBY AND AMERICAN 

FOOTBALL 

Rugby is a better game because of 

lack of protection? Maybe. There are 

traditions, and dirty play is always punished. 

Nobody wants to get a long-term 

disqualification. Some kind of sneaky 

blow can’t go unnoticed – all the players' 

actions get caught on the video. 

At the last World Cup, a Frenchman elbowed 

his opponent and received a red 

card. His team eventually lost and was 

eliminated from the playoffs. 

THE FAMOUS WORLD CUP 

INTERVIEW AND MEDIA 

It’s a regular flash interview – a tradition 

of such big tournaments. It was broadcast 

throughout the stadium after the game. 

We saw a lot of our fans at the stadium, 

and then even foreigners were wearing 

Russian tricolour. They were all very supportive, 

and it was very nice, given the remoteness 

of Japan. Do people recognize 

me on the street? Not very often, but they 

do. They came up a few times and asked 

me carefully: «Do you play rugby? We’ve 

seen you». Mustaches must be conspicuous, 

not everyone walks like that. And I 

started wearing them by accident. Once I 

was sitting at the gym, and I decided not 

to shave. The beard doesn’t grow, so I left 

a mustache. I thought that at the training 

camps, my wife won’t see them. Then I’ve 

decided not to shave them until the World 

Cup and ended up going like that to Japan. 

HAKA DANCE 

This is one of the world rugby feature. 

The audience is willing to pay a lot of 

money for it. It was used by the New Zealand 

Maori tribes. They danced Haka to 

pay homage to the gods or to intimidate 

the opponent. The main thing in its performance 

was to flush the eyes and stick 

out the tongue. New Zealanders also 

dance in both basketball and hockey. 

Russia does not have this tradition. We 

don’t dance, and besides the anthem, 

we don’t sing anything. There are a lot of 

suggestions that can be used before the 

games. The last one was a wall-to-wall 

fight. I think it would be very intimidating 

for the opponent. Joke (laughs). 

LOVE FOR THE THEATRE 

My family members play in the theatre. 

I used to go to ballet a lot when I was a 

kid. My grandfather’s sister was a Russian 

folk artist, lead singer of the Bolshoi Theatre 

Maria Bylova. My brother is a theater 

director Pavel Artemiev. His productions 

go to the Provincial Theatre and MTYUZ. 

I go to all his productions. I can recommend 

lyrical drama with elements of 

comedy “Beautiful future“. In it plays Anton 

Bogdanov (has got notoriety on the 

role of Antoja in «Real Boys»). A very positive 

guy. He always had a dream to play in 

the theatre, and this is his debut role. 

The second play is called «The Disturber». 

It is an acute social drama. One 

of Pavel’s first plays, his thesis, which 

goes to MTYUZ, is “The Four-Legged Raven“ 

by Daniel Harms. I loved Harms my 

whole childhood, and I’m reading it to 

my daughter now. 

WISH FOR YOUNG 

ATHLETES 

First of all, I wish you good health. 

Stretch a lot and do the warm-up. It’s 

very important. Second, I wish you get 

the highest achievements. Do not fear 

the highest goals and achieve them! 

Dmitry Mirsky 

Photo: personal archive of Vasily Artemyev, 

RK CSKA, screenshot video 

Youtube channel https://www.world.rugby/ 


T 

OLYMPIANS, 

his year we celebrate the 75th 

anniversary of the Great Victory 

of our nation in the Great 

Patriotic War. From the first days of the 

war, the entire Soviet nation rose up to 

fight the fascist invaders. Athletes could 

not stay away. Athletes formed reconnaissance, 

fighter and assault squads, 

which have been assigned in responsible 

and difficult combat tasks. 

On June, 27 in 1941, sportsmen volunteers 

were formed in the first detachments 

of The Special Forces Brigades of 

the USSR NKVD (OMZDN). The JZDN consisted 

of many special units, all or part of 

which were made up of athletes. 

Among the first volunteers at the Moscow 

Stadium “Dinamo“ there were a large 

number of outstanding Soviet athletes: 

one of the world’s strongest weightlifters, 

N. Shatov, wrestlers Grigory Polhnov 

and L. Egorov, boxers Nikolai Korolev and 

Igor Miklashevsky, Brothers Seraphim 

WAR HEROES – 

SPORTS HEROES 

and Georgiy Znamensky, the country’s 

record-holder on the barrier run I. Stepanchenok, 

cyclists F. Tarachkov, N. Denisov, 

discobols A. Isaev and L. Mitropolsky, 

jumper G. Mazurov, skater Anatoly Kapchinsky, 

skier Liubov’ Kulakova, boar Alexander 

Dolguskin and many others. 

Known and aspiring athletes were 

active assistants for experienced commanders, 

the athletes were the best 

fighters in the perfect combat and physical 

training for the front – trained miners, 

scouts, sniper shooters, comms, grenade 

launchers, motorcyclists, parachutists. 

They have fought heroically against 

fascist invaders, derailed military echelons 

with arms, they destroyed bridges 

and crossings, aircrafts, tanks and other 

enemy equipment. 

On the eve of the celebration of the 

75th anniversary of the Great Victory we 

would like to recall our famous athletes, 

who fought for the country at the front 

and at the end of the war defended the 

honor of the country in sporting battles. 

It is impossible to name all those who 

heroically fought the enemy and who 

glorified Soviet sports with their records 

and achievements both before the war 

and after the Great Victory. 

The first post-war Olympics was held 

in Helsinki, Finland, in 1952. Athletes 

of the Soviet Union participated in the 

Olympic Games for the first time in history. 

Our athletes took second place in the 

team by the number of medals, behind 

the USA team. 

The Soviet team had 295 members 

(255 men, 40 women), they won 22 gold, 

30 silver and 19 bronze medals. They won 

medals in nine sports. For the first time in 

history, medals were won in boxing, basketball, 

rowing barre and canoeing. The 

feats of the athletes – how many there 

were! Remember our Olympians - heroes 

of war and heroes of sports battles. 

BERDIEV IOSIF KONSTANTINOVICH (26 NOVEMBER 1924 — 27 FEBRUARY 1992) 

Soviet gymnast, 1952 Olympic champion 

in the team championship, multiple 

USSR champion. 

Member of the Great Patriotic War 

was awarded the Order of the Red Star 

and the Order of the Patriotic War of the 

II degree. His exploits during the Great 

Patriotic War in the archives are described 

in details: 

• y «On April 6, in 1945, in the battle for 

the breakthrough of the fortified 

area, comrade Berdiev organized his 

reconnaissance well and, in the combat 

mode of the infantry, The fire of 

his battery suppressed the mortar 

battery and the machine gun of the 

enemy». 

• y On April 7, in 1945, in the Wilkie area, 

Berdiev repulsed the enemy’s infantry 

counterattack with his guns, suppressing 

the fire of the cannon, and 

killed 20 German soldiers». 

• y On April 9, in the battles near the 

village of Moditen under heavy enemy 

fire, advancing on the front line, 

Beridev discovered two direct-fire 

weapons and two enemy machine 

guns, which prevented the advance 

of our infantry. With the fire of his 

battery he destroyed the points of 

fire, thus providing the opportunity 

to break into the settlement of our 

infantry». 



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BELYAKOV VLADIMIR TIMOFEYEVICH (02.01.1918 — 21.05.1996) 

Soviet gymnast, 1952 Olympic champion 

in the team championship, multiple 

USSR champion, Honored Master of Sports 

of the USSR, Honored Master of Sports of 

the USSR (1947). Participant of the Great Patriotic 

War, and was awarded with medals. 

ANUFRIYEV ALEXANDER ALEKSANDROVICH (10.05.1926 — 26.09.1966) 

Soviet athlete who competed in the 

1952 Summer Olympics in the 10000 

metres where he won the bronze medal. 

Participant of the Great Patriotic 

War, was awarded by medals. 

In 1944 Alexander Aleksandrovich 

has been called up for military service, 

he fought at war on the Karelian front, 

was wounded, awarded with medals. 

BOGDANOV ANATOLY IVANOVICH (01.01.1931 — 30.09.2001) 

Soviet sport shooter, double Olympic 

champion (1952 and 1956), repeatedly 

world champion in Europe and the 

USSR on bullet firing in rifle exercises, 

Honored Master of Sports of the USSR 

(1952). World champion (1954), 17-time 

champion of the USSR (1952–57, 1960 – 

in personal and team competitions), 

12-time and 2nd prize-winner in championships 

of the USSR (1954, 1955, 1957, 

1958 – in personal competitions), 5-time 

3rd prize-winner in championships of 

the USSR (1952–54 – in personal competitions). 

Olympic champion (1952 – in exercises 

3×40 shots from any rifle, 1956 – in 

exercises 3×40 shots from a small-caliber 

rifle). The world champion (1954 – in firing 

from a small-caliber rifle: 3×40 shots, 

40 shots from a knee, 40 shots standing 

from any rifle; 3×40 shots, 40 shots lying, 

40 shots from a knee). 

Champion of Europe in firing from 

any rifle (1955 – 3×40 shots; 1959 – 3×40 

shots, 40 shots lying, 40 shots from a 

knee, 40 shots standing). the 4-fold world 

champion (1954) and the 6-fold champion 

of Europe (1955, 1959) in team competitions. 

2nd and 3rd prize-winner of the 

World Cup (1954) and European championship 

(1955). World record-holder 

1954–59. 


War, served as a gunner on a gunboat, 

and at the end of war – was a trombone 

pupil in the military orchestra. It 

is awarded with medals. Phd in philosophical 

science. He was a professor 

at Moscow highest general command 

school, and later – the senior professor 

of Military academy of chemical 

protection of a name of S. K. Tymoshenko. 

Anatoly Ivanovich was awarded 

with the Order of Lenin (1957). The 

author of books “I See the Purpose“ 

(1971), “Special training of the shooter 

from onions“ (1971). Anatoly Ivanovich 

died on September 30, 2001. It 

is buried on the Danilovsky cemetery 

in Moscow (columbarium, section 16, 

place 70). 


VOROBIEV ARKADII NIKITIICH (03.10.1924 — 22.12.2012) 

Soviet weightlifter, 1952 bronze medalist, 

Olympic Champion (1956, 1960), Honored 

Master of Sports of the USSR (1952), 

Honored Coach of the USSR (1964), fivetime 

World Champion, five-time European 

Champion, ten-time Champion of the 

USSR. Arkady Vorobiev at the age of 36 

became a two-time Olympic champion 

in 1960 at the Rome Olympics. During his 

middle and light heavyweight career, he 

set 21 world records and 37 USSR records. 

Participant of the Great Patriotic War. 

Awarded many combat awards, including 

the medal “For courage“, Order “For 

services to the Motherland“ of the IV degree 

and the Order of the Patriotic War 

of the II degree. On the front Arkady Vorobiev 

turned out to be a tenth grader. A 

strong young man was immediately sent 

to the diving school, and then joined the 

Black Sea Navy. 

After the war, Nikitich graduated from 

the Sverdlovsk Medical Institute in 1957. 

Doctor of Medical Science (1970), Professor 

(1972). Rector of MOGIFK college, 

1977–1995. Author of Modern Weightlifting 

Training, “Weightlifting“, Three 

Olympiads» (1963), “Strong Worlds“ 

(1972), “Iron Playing“ (1980), textbook 

“Weightlifting for sports schools“. 

VLASOV VIKTOR PETROVICH (1.11.1925 — 11.08.2002) 

Soviet basketball player, coach, silver 

medalist of the Olympics (1952), 

two-time champion of Europe in 1951 

and 1953, 1955 bronze medalist, USSR 

champion (1948), silver medalist (1956), 

bronze medalist (1957, 1959), silver 

medalist of the I Spartakiad of the 

peoples’ of the USSR (1956), two-time 

winner of the World Student Games, 

two-time winner of the International 

Youth Sports Games, Honored Master 

of Sports of the USSR (1953), Honored 

Coach of the USSR. 


Awarded the Order of the Patriotic War 

of the II degree. 

During the Great Patriotic War in 1943 

at the Main Labour Reserve Department of 

the Soviet Union Peoples’ Commissars The 

All-union Voluntary Sports Society (DSO) 

“Labour Reserves»“ was established Bringing 

together students and employees of the 

vocational education system. The fighter of 

the labor front V. Vlasov, who at that time 

worked at one of the Moscow defense factories, 

joined the DSO and, despite the difficulties 

and constraints of wartime, continued 

to pursue basketball on a regular basis. 

DZHORDZHIKI NODAR KONSTANTINOVICH (15.11.1921 — 02.06.2008) 

Soviet basketball player, silver medalist 

of the Olympiad (1952), champion 

of Europe (1947), champion of the USSR 

(1944, 1946, 1950, 1953, 1954), silver 

medalist (1945), bronze medalist (1952), 

winner of the USSR Cup (1950, 1951), 

honored master of sports. 


Chevalier of the Order of the Patriotic 

War of the II degree, awarded medals 

“For courage“ and “For the defense of the 

Caucasus“. When the Great Patriotic War 

broke out, Nodar was only 19 years old. 

The Second Lieutenant of Georgia in the 

North Caucasus fought with the rank of 

Assistant Chief of Staff. His unit fought in 

the Nalchik direction and in the last days 

of August 1942, he repulsed the Nazi 

tank attacks, advanced and liberated 

several towns. Nodar as a participant of 

these fights was awarded the medal “For 

courage“. 



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GOROKHOVSKAYA MARIA KONDRATYEVNA (17.10.1921 — 07.07 2001) 

Soviet gymnast, the first-ever absolute 

Olympic champion in 1952 in 

gymnastics. 1954 World Champion in 

the Team Championship, multiple USSR 

Champion, Honored Master of Sports 

of the USSR (1952), International Judge 

(1964). 

Knight of the Order of the Red Banner 

of Labour. Winner of the highest number 

of medals (seven) won by a woman in 

one Olympiad. She became an Olympic 

champion at the age of 30, exceeding 

the age of all other absolute Olympic 

champions. 

In 1941 she went to the Leningrad Institute 

of Physical Culture. At the beginning 

of the blockade of Leningrad, she worked 

in a military hospital and was on the roofs 

of Leningrad buildings at night. In a state 

of extreme exhaustion, she was taken to 

Kazakhstan and miraculously left. 

ZYBINA GALINA IVANOVNA (22.01.1931) 

Soviet athlete, Olympic champion 

(1952), Silver medalist (1956), bronze medalist 

(1964), champion of Europe (1954), 

Bronze medalist of the European Championship 

(1962) in the push of the nucleus. 

She set eight world records and four 

USSR records not officially registered as 

the world records (1952–1956); first-ever 

has pushed a core further 16 m (1953). 

Bronze medalist of the European Championship 

1950 in spear throwing (1954) 

in disc throwing – She is the only female 

athlete in history who has won European 

Championship in both types of throwing 

and pushing of the nucleus. Six-time 

USSR champion in shoving the core 

(1952–1955) and throwing the spear 

(1952, 1957). Zibina retired in 1969, at 

the age of 38. She was a member of the 

USSR national team for 21 years. 

She graduated from the Leningrad 

State Pedagogical Institute named 

after A. I. Herzen (1957) and P. F. Lesgaft 

GDOIFK. At the end of her career 

she worked as a coach-teacher. 

For valiant and selfless work during the 

war she was awarded the medal “For the 

defense of Leningrad“, the Order of the 

Red Banner of Labour. In the summer 

of 1942 Galina together with her classmates 

in the most difficult conditions 

worked on gardens of the State Farm 

“Lanskoy“, In the summer of 1943 – in the 

fields of the Sovkhoz “Petroraysovet“, in 

order to provide food to the population 

of the blockaded Leningrad. 


KAZANTSEV VLADIMIR DMITRIEVICH (06.01.1923 - 22.11.2007) 

Soviet track and field athlete, Olympic 

silver medalist (1952), champion of 

the USSR (1946, 1948, 1950 and 1951 in 

the 5,000 m race, 1951 in the 10,000 m 

race, 1950, 1951, 1952 and 1953 in the 

3,000 m hurdles race), Honored Master 

of Sports of the USSR. Coach of the USSR 

national track and field athletics team at 

the 1964 Olympic Games. 

A participant in the Great Patriotic 

War. In 1941, went to the front, was contested 

in battles on the Kalinin front. Later 

he served in the Kremlin guard, played 

for “Dynamo“ (Moscow). 

After his sports career, he taught military 

physical training at the Academy of 

the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the 

Foreign Intelligence Service. 

KANAKAS ALEXANDER SPIRIDONOVICH (29.03.1912 — 1995) 

Soviet athlete, nine-time champion of 

the USSR in ball-pushing, 110 m hurdles, Decathlon 

(1936–1940) and Hammer Throwing 

(1948–1950), Honored Master of Sports 

of the USSR (1939), Honored Coach of the 

USSR. 

Participant in the Great Patriotic War. 

Awarded the Order of the Red Star. After 

graduating from the Kiev Infantry School 

with honors, he then graduated from the 

Kharkiv Institute of Physical Culture in 

two years. 

From the first days of the Great Patriotic 

War, Alexander Kanaki was at the front. At 

the end of 1942, while on one of the Don 

Front stations near Stalingrad, senior lieutenant 

Kanaki was assigned with a group 

of volunteers to cross the river and attack 

unexpectedly, giving the enemy the impression 

that this is the beginning of a decisive 

breakthrough. The mission was completed, 

but Kanaki was stabbed in the chest with a 

bayonet, and a bursting bullet shattered the 

radius bone of the right hand. The long treatment 

in the hospitals could not restore the 

working capacity of the right hand – neither 

the weapon nor the core could be contained. 

After training in throwing the hammer in 

1945, Kanaki became the second in the USSR 

championship two years later, and in 1948 

became the champion and record holder 

of the USSR. His results in 1948–1950 were 

among the top ten results of the season in 

the world (1949 – the second result), and in 

personal meetings with 1948 Olympic champion 

Imre Nemeth 3 out of 4 wins Kanaky. 

KOMAROV ALEXEY FILIPPOVICH (10.12.1921 — 10.05.2013) 

Soviet rower (academic rowing) and trainer, 

silver prize-winner of the summer Olympic 

Games (1952), triple champion of Europe 

(1953,1954, 1956), the 5-time champion and 

the 7-time prize-winner of the championships 

of the USSR in four classes of boats, 

winner of the Henleysky regatta (1954), Honoured 

Master of Sports of the USSR, honored 

trainer of the RSFSR, judge of all-Union category. 

Alexey Filippovich was the founder of 

the Rowing Sports Department of HZKLIFK: 

teacher, head of the department, professor. 

He was one of founders of the modern theory 

and a rowing technique. 


He was awarded with medals “For a Victory 

Over Germany“, “For Services in Battle“, 

“For Valorous Work“. 



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KATULIN ALEKSEY ZAKHAROVICH (06.02.1906 - 1982) 

Soviet classical wrestler, champion 

(1933-1935) and winner (1938) of championships 

of the USSR, Honored Master 

of Sports of the USSR (1936), Judge of 

the International Category (1955), Honored 

Coach of the USSR (1956), Honorary 

Judge of the All-union category (1956), 

Honored Cultural Worker of the RSFSR 

(1972). 

Head of the Department of Wrestling, 

Dean of the Sports Faculty of Gzolifka 

(1937-1939 and 1958–1972). Coach of 

the USSR Free Wrestling Team. Chairman 

of the Federation of Wrestling of the 

USSR. In 1956–1970, he was vice-president 

of the International Amateur Wrestling 

Federation. He became the President 

of the Soviet Federation of Struggle 

and the first Russian Vice-president of 

the International Federation of Struggle. 

Member of the Great Patriotic War, 

Commander of the Order of the Red Star, 

Commander of the Order of the Red Banner 

of Labour and Medals of War. During 

the Great Patriotic War, he commanded 

a guerrilla detachment in the Smolensk 

region. During one of the fights, he was 

severely injured and captured. After 

four unsuccessful escape attempts, he 

managed to escape from captivity and 

continue fighting the fascist invaders. 

He’s the only one on our list who hasn’t 

won Olympic gold as an athlete. When 

wrestler Alexei Katulin reigned on the 

carpet, the Soviet Union did not participate 

in the Olympics. But it was Katulin, 

as coach and president of the federation, 

who organized the triumphant debut of 

the Soviet wrestlers at the 1952 Helsinki 

Olympics, The winners were Boris Gurevich, 

Yakov Punkin, Shazam Safin and Johannes 

Kotkas. 

In 1956–1970, Aleksey Zakharovich 

was the vice-president of the International 

Federation of Wrestling. 

KOTKAS, JOHANNES JOHANNESOVICH (03.02.1915 G. — G. 08.05.1998) 

Soviet and Estonian classical wrestler, 

Olympic champion (1952), World Cup 

silver medalist (1953), World Cup winner 

(1956), European champion (1938, 1939, 

1947), USSR champion (1940, 1943–1946, 

1948, 1950–1953, 1955, 1956, among 

them in 1940, 1943, 1944, 1945), absolute 

champion of the USSR, 22-time champion 

of Estonia. He is also a seven-time 

champion and record holder of the USSR 

(1943) in hammer throw, Estonian champion 

in hammer throw, USSR champion 

in freestyle wrestling (1947), two-time 

USSR champion in Sambo, Honored Master 

of sports of the USSR (1943), Honored 

Worker of physical culture and sports of 

the Estonian SSR (1964), judge of the all- 

Union category (1965). 

Participant of the great Patriotic war. 

Awarded the order of the Red Banner, 

the Order of Lenin, the Order of “Badge 

of Honour“. 

During the war he served in the 8th 

Estonian rifle corps. 


LITUEV YURI NIKOLAEVICH (11.04.1925-02.03.2003) 

Soviet track and field athlete, Olympic 

silver medalist (1952), European Championship 

silver medalist (1954), USSR Сhampion 

and European Champion (1958), 

multiple USSR Сhampion and medalist in 

hurdles and decathlon. Honored Master 

of Sports, Honored Coach of the USSR, 

coach of the USSR national team and 

Head of the CSKA team. At the Olympic 

games in 1964 Yuri Lituev was the coach 

of the Soviet Union. 

He participated in the Great Patriotic 

War, was awarded the Order of the Red 

Star and medals. 

During the war, he commanded an 

artillery battery. Once during the battle, 

the Hitlerites unexpectedly brought in 

fresh reserves – several tanks. They were 

counting on a panic among our soldiers. 

One of the first to quickly Orient themselves 

and open fire on the armored 

vehicles was 19-year-old battery commander 

Yuri Lituev. With a well-aimed 

shot from an anti-tank gun, he destroyed 

a fascist tank. Other fighters also strove. 

The Germans retreated with losses. He 

finished the war as a Lieutenant. 

LOPATIN YEVGENY IVANOVICH (26.12. 1917 — 21.07. 2011) 

Soviet weightlifter, Olympic silver 

medalist (1952), European championship 

silver medalist (1947), European champion 

and world championship silver medalist 

(1950), USSR championship medalist 

(1945, 1946), USSR champion (1947, 1948, 

1952). 


Awarded the Order of the Red Star and 

medals. 

With the beginning of the Great Patriotic 

War, he was called up to the 2nd 

Leningrad rifle and machine gun infantry 

school. After the siege of Leningrad 

was established, the school was moved 

to the city of Glazov in Udmurtia. In the 

spring of 1942, immediately after graduating 

from the school, they took courses 

for company commanders. After completing 

the course, he was sent to the 

Stalingrad front as a commander of a 

company of anti-tank guns with the rank 

of Lieutenant. He fought in the 120th rifle 

division of the 66th army. At the end 

of September 1942, in the battle of Yerzovka, 

he was wounded by machine-gun 

fire in the left arm. After the hospital, he 

was sent as a physical education teacher 

to the Kuibyshev Military School of Communications. 

LYSSOV JOANN FEDEROVICH (10.09.1921-03.08.2000) 

Soviet and Estonian basketball player 

and coach, Olympic silver medalist 

(1952), two-time European champion, 

Honored Master of Sports of the 

USSR (1947). As a senior coach of the 

USSR women's national team, he won 

the European Championships in 1954 

and 1956. Honored Coach of the USSR 

(1957). 

He participated in the Great Patriotic 

War, was awarded the Order of the Red 

Star and medals. 

During the Great Patriotic War, John 

Lyssov served in the 7th rifle division and 

took part in heavy fighting on the Leningrad 

front. 



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MESHKOV LEONID KARPOVICH (01.01.1914 — 04.03.1986) 

Soviet swimmer, Honored Master of 

Sports (1940), Honored Coach of the 

RSFSR (1963), Honored Worker of Culture 

of the RSFSR (1973). In 1932–1952, multiple 

champion of the USSR (42 gold medals). 

He set over 120 records at the USSR, 

European and world Championships. He 

competed at the 1952 Olympic Games 

in the 4×200 m. Head coach of the USSR 

national swimming team – 1953–55. 


Awarded 3 orders-knight of the Order of 

the Patriotic War I, II and III degrees and 

medals. 

At the beginning of the war, Leonid 

Meshkov voluntarily joined the active 

army and was sent to a reconnaissance 

unit of one of the Leningrad front's 

units. 

One day, he and his comrade Kulakov 

were assigned to swim across 

the Luga river, penetrate the location 

of the enemy unit, find out the location 

of firing points and the number 

of personnel. They got the necessary 

information and began to go down to 

the river. Here they were discovered by 

German posts and opened fire. Meshkov 

shouldered a badly wounded 

comrade and crawled to the river, but 

a mine that exploded nearby wounded 

him in the right arm. With an effort 

of will, Meshkov retained consciousness. 

His right arm did not work, he 

pressed it to his torso, and with his left 

hand he picked up his wounded comrade 

and swam only with the help of 

his legs. Courage, high skill in swimming, 

endurance helped to save the 

life of a wounded comrade and himself 

and deliver important data to the 

command. 

NOVAK GRIGORY IMOVIC (05.03.1919 G. — G. 10.07.1980) 

The first Soviet weightlifter in 

history – world champion, silver 

medalist at the 1952 Olympics, Honored 

Master of Sports of the USSR 

(1945),Honored Artist of the RSFSR 

(1969). During the Great Patriotic War, 

22-year-old Lieutenant Grigory Novak, 

who was refused to be sent to 

the front, was appointed to the post 

of head of physical training at the red 

Army House in Novosibirsk, where he 

trained ski units. 

PARFENOV ANATOLY IVANOVICH (17.11.1925 — 28.01.1993) 

Soviet classical wrestler, Olympic champion 

in 1956, champion of the USSR in 

1954 and 1957, Honored Master of Sports 

of the USSR (1955), Honored Coach of the 

USSR (1976). 


He was awarded the Order of Lenin 

(February 22, 1944), orders of the Patriotic 

War I and II degrees, two Orders 

of "Badge of Honor" (1957, 1976) and 

medals. 

He was not even 17 years old when, 

in October 1942, he was sent to the front 

as part of the 69th guards rifle division. 

In October 1943, his 208th guards rifle 

regiment crossed the Dnieper river at the 

village of Gradizhsk. His company was 

given the task of using improvised means 

to cross the Dnieper river with a machine 

gun and capture the strategically important 

unnamed island. During the crossing, 

the group was noticed by the Germans. 

They opened fire, and many were killed 

immediately. Parfenov was seriously injured, 

but managed to get a machine gun 

from the bottom that fell out of the hands 

of a comrade. When he reached the shore, 

he returned fire and later, in the trench, 

managed to deal with three enemies. 

After treatment, he completed training 

courses and continued to fight as a 

mechanic-driver on the T-34 in the 108th 

tank brigade. 


IGOR NIKOLAEVICH POLYAKOV (01.08.1912 — 16.05.2008) 

Soviet rower, Olympic silver medalist 

(1952), six-time champion of the USSR, 

Honored Master of Sports of the USSR 

(1946), Honored Coach of the USSR 

(1965). He has trained 12 honored masters 

of sports and about 200 masters of 

sports. 

Participant of the Great Patriotic War, 

awarded the Order of the Red Star and 

medals “For Courage“, “For Military Merit“, 

“For the Victory over Germany“. 

Poliakov fought with the rank of senior 

technician-Lieutenant. He managed 

the dismantling and Assembly 

shop-workshop, which during the war 

produced more than 1,400 cars from 

repair and provided great technical assistance 

to passing vehicles of military 

units. In addition, the group under his 

leadership evacuated ten captured vehicles, 

equipment and auto property, 

during which he was injured. In 1945, 

on the instructions of the command, 

he went to Germany, from where, upon 

repatriation, he brought equipment for 

rowing, on which different teams of the 

country trained until 1952. 

SOLOGUBOV NIKOLAY MIKHAILOVICH (08.08.1924 — 08.1988) 

Soviet ice hockey player, defender, 

champion of the Winter Olympic Games 

1956, bronze medalist of the Olympic 

Games 1960, World Champion 1956 

and 1963, second medalist of the World 

Cup 1955 and 1957–1959, third medalist 

of the World Cup 1960 and 1961, 

European champion (1955, 1956, 1958, 

1959, 1963), champion of the USSR 

(1950, 1955, 1956, 1958–1961, 1963, 

1964), second prize-winner of the USSR 

Championships 1952–1954, 1957, third 

prize-winner (1962), winner of the USSR 

Cup (1954–1956, 1961), Honored Master 

of Sports of the USSR (1956). 

Only one hockey player in history 

was twice recognised as the best 

player of the Olympics, in 1956 and 

in 1960. This is the Soviet defender, 

front – line soldier, army man Nikolai 

Sologubov. 


He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic 

War II degree, the medals “For Military 

Merits“ and “For the Victory over Germany 

in the Great Patriotic War of 1941- 

1945“. 

Sologubov was taken to the war 

only in 1942 and sent to serve on the 

Leningrad front. A year later, Nikolai 

Mikhailovich was wounded in the 

leg and stayed in the hospital for a 

month and a half, but returned and 

continued to fight as a scout. During 

the offensive on village Krasnoe, a 

mine exploded near Sologubov – 

doctors believed that amputation of 

part of his leg was inevitable, but he 

managed, having undergone seven 

operations. After the war, he continued 

his army service in the far East, 

where he began playing Russian ice 

hockey for the Khabarovsk house of 

officers, and switched to ice hockey 

in 1949. 

RODIMUSHKIN VLADIMIR ALEXANDROVICH (22.12.1921 — 15.01.1986) 

Soviet rower, Olympic silver medalist 

(1952), three-time European champion 

in the eight, USSR champion in 1948 in 

the two-man rowing, 1951 champion 

in the four-man rowing, in 1946, 1947, 

1952, 1953, 1954 and 1956 champion in 

the eight-man rowing, Honored Master 

of Sports of the USSR (1952). 


awarded the Order of the Patriotic War 

II degree, the Order of the Red Star, the 

medal “For Courage“. 



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SAXONOV NIKOLAY NIKOLAEVICH (06.01.1923 — 02.11.2011) 

Soviet weightlifter, Olympic silver 

medalist (1952), world and European 

champion (1953), USSR champion (1949, 

1952, 1953), Honored Master of Sports of 

the USSR. He set 12 world records. 


awarded the Order of the Red Star, the 

Order of the Patriotic War I degree and 

the medal “For Courage“. 

By the beginning of the war, Nikolai 

Saxonov had completed the first year 

of the Marine technical school, after 

which he was mobilized and sent to 

the Sverdlovsk infantry school. However, 

he did not become an officer, 

as the personnel at the front suffered 

heavy losses, and an accelerated release 

was made. Saxonov went to the 

front as a Sergeant. Fought in a reconnaissance 

platoon. During a sortie to 

the rear of the enemy, he captured a 

prisoner and, despite the fact that he 

was wounded, dragged a seriously 

wounded German. For this, Saxonov 

was awarded the Order of the Red 

Star. 

After retiring from sports, he worked 

as a district doctor. In 1969, he defended 

his thesis. Candidate of medical Sciences, 

associate Professor. He led and 

taught at the Department of Athletics 

of the State Central Institute of physical 

culture. 

PUNKIN YAKOV GRIGORYEVICH (08.12.1921 — 12.10.1994) 

Soviet classical wrestler, Olympic champion 

(1952), five-time USSR champion 

(1949, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1955), two-time 

winner of the Championships held in the 

framework of the World festivals of youth 

and students, Honored Master of Sports 

of the USSR (1952). In April 1941, he was 

drafted into the Red Army and sent to the 

tank school in Volkovysk, and in June he 

was on the front line. In one of the first battles 

for Brest, shell-shocked, was captured. 

Until the summer of 1942, he was held in 

the Fullen prison camp in northwestern 

Germany, and then transferred to a concentration 

camp near Osnabrück, where 

he was sent to perform agricultural work. 

Twice unsuccessfully tried to escape from 

captivity. In 1945, he was in the Mennen 

camp, from where he was released by our 

soldiers. After rehabilitation for three years, 

he completed military service in Magdeburg, 

resuming wrestling during this period. 

In 1947, he became the champion of 

the Armed forces in classical wrestling. 

SUKHAREV VLADIMIR GEORGIEVICH (10.07.1924 — 30.04.1997) 

Soviet track and field athlete, Sprinter, 

Olympic silver medalist (1952 and 1956), 

nine-time champion of the USSR in individual 

sprint disciplines and in relays, Honored 

Master of Sports of the USSR (1951). 


Awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II 

degree and medals. 

In 1942, at the age of 18, he went to war. 

After demobilization, he entered 

the Kazakh Institute of Physical Culture, 

at the same time served in the 

troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs 

and played for Dynamo Almaty. 


TYUKALOV YURIY SERGEEVICH (04.07.1930 — 19.02.2018) 

The first Soviet rower-Olympic 

champion (rowing), two-time Olympic 

champion (1952 and 1956), Olympic 

silver medalist (1960), six-time European 

champion (1954, 1956–1959, 1961), 

USSR champion (1948-1962), Honored 

Master of Sports (1952), Honored Rowing 

Coach, artist, architect, honorary citizen 

of St. Petersburg (2002). 

A graduate of the Leningrad higher 

art and industrial school named after V. 

I. Mukhina. 


War. He spent all the days of the siege 

in the besieged city. Barely alive, he 

helped those who were completely 

weakened, put out fires. During 

the war, Tyukalov was on duty on the 

roofs, extinguishing incendiary bombs 

– there were almost three dozen of 

them. In the summer, at a state farm 

near the Nevsky forest Park, he worked 

as a water carrier, filling an 8-liter bucket 

with three 300-liter barrels of water 

from the Neva river a day. At the age 

of 12, Yura was awarded the medal “For 

the Defence of Leningrad“, the medal 

“For Labor Valour“ – for successful performances 

in the XVII Summer and VIII 

Winter Olympics in 1960, as well as for 

outstanding sports achievements. The 

Order of the Red Banner of Labor – for 

the success achieved in the development 

of mass physical culture movement 

in the country, improving the 

skills of Soviet athletes and successful 

performance at international competitions, 

the medal of the order of Merit 

for the Fatherland, II degree (may 5, 

2010) – for a great contribution to the 

development of domestic rowing and 

many years of conscientious work. 

CHUKARIN VIKTOR IVANOVICH (09.11.1921— 25.08.1984) 

Soviet gymnast, absolute champion of 

the Olympic Games (6 awards in 1952, 5 

awards in 1956), world champion (1954), 

thirteen-time champion of the USSR in 

individual sports (1948–1956), Honored 

Master of Ssports of the USSR (1951), 

Honored Coach of the USSR (1972), associate 

Professor (1963), Head of the Department 

of Gymnastics of the Lviv Institute 

of Physical Culture (since 1971). 


Awarded the Order of Lenin (1957). 

At the beginning of the Great Patriotic 

War, he went to the front as a volunteer. 

He fought in an artillery unit in the 

1044th rifle regiment of the 289th rifle 

division of the South-Western front, defending 

Kiev. He was wounded and shellshocked, 

being captured near Poltava. 

The Germans sent him to a concentration 

camp, then to another, a third. In 

total, he changed 17 camps, including 

Buchenwald. Was on the verge of death, 

but miraculously managed to escape: 

he was among the prisoners who were 

loaded into a barge intended to be sunk. 

However, the plan failed, and the ship 

was abandoned in the Baltic sea. There 

he was picked up by an English patrol 

vessel. When he returned home at the 

end of the war, his own mother did not 

recognize the emaciated man as her 

own son. His weight at that time was no 

more than 40 kg. 

Soon Victor started training and returned 

to his fitness. In 1946, he took 

part in the USSR gymnastics championship, 

and in 1948 became its winner. 

Further-more. He got into the national 

team, went to the Olympic games – 1952 

in Helsinki. There he made a splash, becoming 

the absolute champion: he won 

4 gold and 2 silver medals. Moreover, 

four years later in Melbourne he repeated 

the success. And at the time of the 

Finnish Olympics, he was 31 years old, 

and in Australia – 35. Currently, at this 

age, gymnasts are retired. 



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CHIKHLADZE SHALVA KONSTANTINOVICH (12.07.1912 — 14.01.1997) 

Soviet classical and freestyle wrestler, 

Olympic silver medalist in classical 

wrestling (1952), four-time USSR champion 

(1936, 1946, 1949, 1950), four-time 

Vice-champion of the USSR in classical 

wrestling (1935, 1944, 1947, 1951), 

twice the third prize-winner of the USSR 

Championships in classical wrestling and 

freestyle wrestling (1937, 1941), Honored 

Master of Sports of the USSR. 


Awarded the Order of “Badge of Honor“. 

During the Great Patriotic War, like 

many other athletes, he fought as a 

volunteer in a separate motorized rifle 

brigade of the special purpose of the 

NKVD of the USSR. Participant of the Red 

Square Parade on November 7, 1941. 

During the battle near the village of 

Verkhne-Kuklino in the Kaluga region, he 

was wounded with nerve damage in the 

left forearm, lay in a hospital until March 

1942, after which he went to Tbilisi for 

treatment. 

TOCHENOVA CLAUDIA ALEXANDROVNA (16.11.1921 — 30.05.2004) 

Soviet track and field athlete, shot 

putter, Olympic bronze medalist (1952), 

European silver medalist (1950), USSR 

champion (1951), 10-time winner of 

the USSR Championships (1946-1951); 

2-time winner of the World University 

games (1951, 1953), Honored Master of 

Sports of the USSR (1950). 


Awarded the medal “For the Defence of Leningrad“. 

She survived the blockade and after 

the end of the war remained to live in the city. 

UDODOV IVAN VASILYEVICH (20.05.1924 — 16.11.1981) 

The first Soviet weightlifter, Olympic 

champion in 1952. World record holder 

(1952–1956), World champion, twice 

silver medalist, 2-time European champion, 

4-time winner of the USSR Championships, 

Honored Master of Sports of 

the USSR (1952). 

At the age of seventeen, Ivan Udodov, 

after trying to escape from forced labor 

in Germany, ended up in the Buchenwald 

concentration camp. He remained 

in Buchenwald until the end of the war, 

but survived. By the time the prisoners 

were released by American troops, he 

was unable to move independently from 

exhaustion. In 1947, on the advice of 

doctors, in order to improve his health 

through systematic sports, he began to 

train in the weightlifting hall. 


SHAGINIAN GRANT AMAZASPOVICH (30.07.1923 G. — G. 29.05.1996) 

Soviet gymnast, Olympic champion 

in team and ring exercises (1952), 

Olympic silver medalist in individual 

and horse exercises (1952), two-time 

world champion in team and horse 

exercises (1954), seven-time champion 

of the USSR (1948–1949, 1951–1952, 

1954–1955), absolute champion of the 

USSR (1952), Honored Master of Sports 

of the USSR (1952), International category 

judge (1957), Honored Coach 

of the Armenian SSR (1961), Honored 

Worker of Physical Culture and Sports 

of the Armenian SSR (1966). 


War. Awarded the Order of the Patriotic 

War II degree, the medal "for the defense 

of the Caucasus". For sports services, 

he was awarded the Order of the 

Red Banner of Labor, the medal “For 

Labor Valour“ and the Order “Badge of 

Honor“. 

At the beginning of the Great Patriotic 

War, Grant Shaginyan volunteered 

for the front at the age of 18. In 1943, he 

was seriously wounded in the leg. The 

doctors managed to save the leg, but 

not its mobility. He was commissioned 

from the army, but did not quit gymnastics. 

He independently began to 

develop the leg, achieved that it again 

began to unbend almost completely, 

but the limp remained. Despite this, 

Grant Shaginyan returned to full training, 

which itself can be considered a 

sporting feat. 

SHERBAKOV SERGEY SEMENOVICH (20.07.1918 G. — G. 24.01.1994) 

Soviet boxer and trainer, Olympic 

silver medalist (1952), European silver 

medalist (1953), the only 10-time champion 

of the USSR (1944–1953), Honored 

Master of Sports of the USSR, Honored 

Coach of the USSR (Head Coach of the 

USSR at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne 

and 1960 in Rome). 

Participant of the Great Patriotic War. He 

was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War I 

degree, the Order of “Badge of Honour“, the 

medals “For Courage“ and “For Battle Merit“. 

With the beginning of the Great Patriotic 

War, he volunteered through the 

Dynamo sports society in Separate Motor 

Rifle Brigade. During sabotage operations 

in the enemy's rear, he received two 

severe wounds, one of which almost led 

to the amputation of his leg (Sherbakov 

begged the surgeon not to cut off his 

injured leg below the knee, arguing that 

Boxing is everything for him). For undermining 

communications in the rear of 

the enemy, wounding and organizing 

the capture of heights, th Red Army soldier 

Sherbakov was awarded the medal 

“For Courage“ for destroying a train of 

27 cars, delivering food to a detachment 

in the rear of the enemy and carrying a 

wounded comrade across the front line. 

All athletes who participated in the 

Great Patriotic War and their coaches 

were awarded high state awards. Many 

of them, after the war, continued their 

activities, becoming scientists, managers, 

coaches, passing on their knowledge, 

experience, and love for sports. 

Their courage and bravery are passed 

down through a generation! 

Modern youth engaged in physical 

culture and sports will become the same 

strong foundation for our country as the 

athletes of that time became during the war. 

Remember! Through the centuries, 

through the years – Remember! About 

the feats of our famous athletes that 

they performed on the battlefield and in 

sports battles. 



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SPORTS, PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SCIENCE 

NEW APPROACHES IN DIAGNOSTICS 

AND PREVENTION OF POSTURE DISORDERS 

IN 12-14 YEARS OLD ADOLESCENTS 

SOKOLOVA V. S. 

Doctor of medical Sciences, 

Professor of Moscow State 

Pedagogical University. Moscow 

IVANOV K. V. 

first-year master's student 

at Moscow State Pedagogical University. 

Moscow 

OLEYNICHENKO, A. D. 

first-year student of a bachelor course of 

the Moscow State Pedagogical University. 

Moscow 

Sokolova V.S. doctor of medical 

sciences Professor of Moscow State 


Ivanov K.V. First-year student of the 

Moscow State Pedagogical University. 

Moscow Tel. 89670264670 e-mail: 

ikv89670264670@yandex.ru 

Oleinichenko A. D., first-year student of 

the Moscow State Pedagogical University. 

Moscow 

Kulikov N.V., 4th year student of the 

bachelor's program of Moscow State 

Pedagogical 

University. Moscow 

Filiptsov I. A., first-year student of the 


Moscow 

INTRODUCTION 

According to the WHO, in 80% of the 

world's population there are various diseases 

of the musculoskeletal system. Observations 

conducted in schools in Moscow 

and the Moscow Region over the 

past decade revealed that 25.5 thousand 

children aged 0–17 were recognized as 

disabled, having disorders associated 

with the musculoskeletal system (OA). 

Most often, an OA disease occurs early. 

NIKITA KULIKOV 

4th year undergraduate student 

of Moscow State Pedagogical University. 

Moscow 

FILIPTSOV ILYA ANATOLYEVICH 

first-year master's student 

at Moscow State Pedagogical University. 

Moscow 

• y Relevance: The formation of posture in children and adolescents should be 

given sufficient attention, since the development of many diseases of the body 

depends on the health of the spine. Modern school children lead a sedentary 

lifestyle, and physical education classes go by the wayside, so today it is very 

important to monitor the formation of students ' posture, since the health of 

the child depends on the state of the spine. 

• y Objective: To improve the functional state of the back muscles in adolescents 

12-14 years of age through the use of eccentric training. 

• y Abstract: The study involved 20 participants, divided into control and experimental 

groups of 10 people each. In the control group, the method of training 

on special simulators according to a specially developed program was used, 

and in the experimental group, classes on simulators Of G. Zander and the 

method of self-correction were used. 

• y Keywords: G. Zander fitness equipment, impaired posture, mechanotherapy, 

self-correction by Schroth. 



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Fig. 1. Optical system METOS Fig. 

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: 

To improve the functional state of 

the back muscles in adolescents 12–14 

years old through the use of an eccentric 

training on G. Zander's simulators 

and using the self-correction method 

according to Schrot. 

Eccentric exercises were first applied 

in 1813 by Henry Per Ling. Counteraction 

gymnastics is performed when two forces 

interact: Instructor and Patient. Gustav 

Zander, in parallel with Ling's research, is 

creating his line of simulators that are 

actively used in the rehabilitation of patients 

with disorders with ODA. Gustav 

Zander’s training apparatuses are built 

on the principle of a 2-shoulder lever, 

where one shoulder serves as a point of 

contact between the two forces, and the 

load on the other shoulder is located, the 

AS A RESULT OF CLASSES, THERE IS STRENGTHENING OF THE MUSCLE 

CORSET, ALIGNMENT OF POSTURE, NORMALIZATION OF THE PATTERN 

OF MOVEMENTS, ESTABLISHMENT OF THE WORK OF INTERNAL 

ORGANS AND BODY SYSTEMS AS A WHOLE 

displacement of which regulates the resistance. 

Zander also invented simulators 

for passive gymnastics, which had a mechanical 

drive, driven by an electric motor. 

Some devices were intended for massage, 

and some for stretching the spine 

in case of violation of posture. Mechanotherapy 

has a positive effect on almost 

all body systems: musculoskeletal, nervous, 

cardiovascular, digestive, etc. 

The basis of this technique is the elimination 

of muscle imbalances and functional 

blocks in the human body with 

the help of special simulators that can 

selectively affect any damaged tissue: 

muscle, connective, nervous, etc. The 

modern mechanotherapy system is built 

using biomechanical techniques of N. A. 

Bernstein, K. A. Semenova, L. F. Vasiliev 

and others. [1] 

The basis of work on these simulators 

are the following principles: block and 

pendulum; balancing pendulum; two 

shoulders lever; active-passive movement. 

When performing training exercises 

on the simulator, it is important to observe 

the following rules: the axis of the 

joint should be in the same plane with 

the simulator block; limb must be properly 

fixed. At the same time, the rule of 

individual dosing of physical activity is 

observed according to the number of 

approaches and the number of exercises 

performed. 

As a result of classes, there is 

strengthening of the muscle corset, 

alignment of posture, normalization of 

the pattern of movements, establishment 

of the work of internal organs and 

body systems as a whole. As you know, 

there are several types of muscle contraction: 

concentric, isometric, eccentric 

and auxotonic. [1] 

Concentric muscle contraction – with 

muscle tension, the two attachment 

points come closer to each other, while 

limb or trunk flexion occurs. 

Isometric contraction a– in which 

the length between the points of attachment 

of the muscles does not 



change, muscle tension is maintained 

and the limb is held. 

An eccentric contraction is an increase 

in the length between the points 

of attachment of the muscles while 

maintaining its tension. Isotonic contraction 

– an increase or shortening of 

the distance between the points of attachment 

of muscles without muscle 

tension. 

Auxotonic – shortening the length 

of the muscle between two points of 

attachment with increasing muscle tension. 

[2] 

In the complex of preventive measures, 

in addition to physiotherapy exercises, 

simulators apply self-correction 

methods according to Schrot. Self-correction 

is the patient’s ability to take the 

correct position of the body in space, 

from which all movements are performed 

while maintaining anatomical 

symmetry. 

Self-correction according to Schrot 

begins from the usual position lying on 

the back, where all its violations of posture 

are revealed. When violations are 

detected, the pelvic mat is repositioned. 

Further, if necessary, the cervical spine is 

leveled. The instructor gives kinesthetic 

tips to help the patient, and the patient 

himself takes the correct position of the 

body. In parallel with muscle exposure, 

special breathing exercises should be 

used. [3] 

For the study, 20 teenagers of both 

sexes were selected, divided into 2 

groups: control (CG) and experimental 

(EG), 10 people each. Posture correction 

was performed for 2 months in the 

classroom in the mechanotherapy room 

2–3 times a week, lasting 60 minutes. 

The lesson included a warm-up on the 

simulator for 10-15 minutes in order to 

include the muscles of the upper, lower 

limbs and trunk, while the cardiovascular 

system is effectively included in the 

work. In the main part of the lesson, the 

patient is actively engaged in simulators 

that are aimed at eliminating the 

basic disorders in the pelvic area and 

other parts of the spine. The final part 

of the lesson is aimed at relaxing the 

working muscles and checking the anatomical 

position of the main elements 

of the body. 

In the main part of the lesson, the patient 

is actively engaged in simulators 

that are aimed at eliminating the basic 

disorders in the pelvic area and other 

parts of the spine. The final part of the 

lesson is aimed at relaxing the working 

muscles and checking the anatomical position 

of the main elements of the body. 

In the first 2–3 classes, training was 

conducted on a set of exercises for 

studying at home and testing the development 

of the complex. 

THE DATA OBTAINED DURING THE STUDY SHOWED 

THAT WHEN SCHROT INCLUDED SELF-CORRECTION 

TECHNIQUES IN THE REHABILITATION PROGRAM, 

THEY YIELDED A MORE PRONOUNCED POSITIVE RESULT 

THAN ORDINARY CLASSES ONLY ON G. ZANDER’S 

SIMULATORS WITHOUT 

THE USE OF SELF-CORRECTION 

Unlike work on simulators, which 

is performed in an eccentric mode, a 

set of independent exercises includes 

exercises in concentric and isometric 

modes. [7] 

All patients at the time of the examination 

were diagnosed with of the II and 

III degree scoliosis of the thoracic and 

lumbar spine. 

2. Printed topographic image “METOS” 



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Diagnostics of the abnormalities was 

performed using the METOS optical 

topograph, which allows detection of 

scoliotic arches, muscle imbalances, and 

various asymmetries. [5] 

When examining an optical topograph, 

a photograph is printed. Figure 

2 shows a snapshot of Ivanov, a 12-yearold 

practitioner, in which the following 

violations can be observed in three 

planes: frontal, sagittal, horizontal. In 

the frontal plane, the distortion of the 

shoulder girdle is 2.72 degrees, the level 

of the shoulder blades in this case is normal, 

the distortion of the pelvic girdle is 

3.49 degrees and scoliosis of the spine is 

stage 2. A strong torso forward of 4 degrees 

is expressed in the sagittal plane, 

due to this a compensatory ventral displacement 

of the head by 36.68 degrees 

is also observed flattening of chest kyphosis, 

but lumbar lordosis is normal. 

In the horizontal plane – rotation of the 

shoulder girdle relative to the pelvis by 

Fig. 3. Rieser's sign on the iliac crest. Fig. 

UNLIKE WORK ON SIMULATORS, 

WHICH IS PERFORMED IN AN 

ECCENTRIC MODE, A SET OF 

INDEPENDENT EXERCISES 

INCLUDES EXERCISES IN 

CONCENTRIC AND ISOMETRIC 

MODES 

6.11 degrees. On the graph of paravertebral 

asymmetry, pronounced hypertonicity 

of the paravertebral muscles is 

observed. 

In addition, all the subjects underwent 

an X-ray examination of the pelvic 

bones in order to detect the degree 

of ossification or Rieser's test with the 

identification of the rhizic zones. As you 

know, complete ossification, or complete 

maturation of bone tissue, is completed 

by 16–18 years in boys and by 16 years in 

girls. The smaller the degree of ossification, 

the greater the effectiveness of posture 

correction. In fig. Figure 3 shows the 

ossification zones identified at the apex 

of the iliac crest. [6] 

Classes on G. Zander simulators were 

held in both groups. In the control group, 

the program included only exercises on 

mechanical simulators. In the experimental 

group, self-correction techniques 

according to Schrot and classes on mechanical 

simulators were additionally 

connected according to an individual 

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EG ЭГ 

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4. Change the angles of Koba 

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KG КГ 1 stage эт ап 1 КГ KG 2 stage эт ап 2 

Э EG Г 1 stage эт ап 1 

EG Э Г stage 2 эт ап 2 

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technique, taking into account severity. 

In the same group exercises for exercises 

at home were painted. 

The results of the study characterized 

the dynamics of changes in posture in 

both groups according to two indicators, 

the Cobb angle in the x-ray image and 

KG КГ 1 stage эт ап 1 KG КГ stage 2 эт ап 2 Э EG Г 1 stage эт ап 1 EG Э Г 2 stage эт ап 2 

Fig. 6 

CONCLUSIONS 

1. The data obtained during the study 

showed that when Schrot included 

self-correction techniques in the rehabilitation 

program, they yielded a 

more pronounced positive result than 

ordinary classes only on G. Zander’s 

simulators without the use of self-correction. 

2. Classes on mechanical simulators 

strengthened the muscle corset of 

the subjects, visually increased the 

volume of the muscles of the back, 

trunk, upper and lower extremities. 

3. The application of self-correction 

techniques according to Schrot developed 

a stereotype of the correct 

body position among the students 

and thus made it possible to maintain 

correct posture in the future. 

4. Exercises on mechanical simulators 

increased the elasticity of ligaments 

and muscles compared to the beginning 

of classes. 

COMPLETE OSSIFICATION, OR COMPLETE MATURATION OF BONE 

TISSUE, IS COMPLETED BY 16–18 YEARS IN BOYS AND BY 16 YEARS 

IN GIRLS. THE SMALLER THE DEGREE OF OSSIFICATION, THE GREATER 

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF POSTURE CORRECTION. IN FIG. FIGURE 3 

SHOWS THE OSSIFICATION ZONES IDENTIFIED AT THE APEX OF THE 

ILIAC CREST 

according to the data obtained on the 

METOS optical topograph. The Cobb angle 

is a value showing the curvature of 

the spinal column in degrees in the frontal 

plane. The following norms exist at 

different stages of scoliosis: stage I, the 

Koba angle is not more than 10 degrees, 

stage II is equal to 10 to 25 degrees, III is 

from 25 to 50 degrees, IV is more than 50 

degrees. 

At the end of the experiment, the 

following data were obtained: the Koba 

angle in the control group at the first 

stage averaged 27.4 degrees, at the second 

– 24.8 degrees, that is, the average 

decrease in the angle of the subjects 

was 2.6 degrees. In the experimental 

group, at the first stage, the angle averaged 

27.9 degrees, at the second – 23.7 

degrees, that is, the angle decreased by 

4.2 degrees. In the experimental group, 

in contrast to the control group, the difference 

in the angles of the scoliotic arc 

(Cobb) was 1.6 degrees. Therefore, the 

smaller the scoliotic arc, the smaller the 

Coba angle. 

According to the METOS surveyor, 

the following results were obtained: 

the pelvic skew angle (Fig. 5) in (CG) at 

the initial stage was on average 3.782 

degrees, after the end of the experiment 

–from 2.814 degrees. That is, 

there was an equalization of the position 

of the pelvis by 1 degree. In the 

EG, the angle of distortion of the pelvis 

at the beginning of the experiment 

was 3.814, and at the end of the experiment 

2.289 degrees. That is, the angle 

of distortion of the pelvis decreased by 

1.5 degrees. In the EG, the dynamics 

of changes in the skew of the pelvis, 

in contrast to the CG, differed by 0.55 

degrees. Pelvic skew angles should 

normally be from 0 to 2 degrees, a 

moderate indicator – 3–4 degrees, expressed 

– more than 4 degrees. 

The dynamics of the change in 

the distortion of the shoulder girdle 

showed the following: in the first 

stage, the CG amounted to an average 

of 2.887 degrees, in the second – 2 degrees, 

that is, on average decreased 

by 0.887 degrees. In the EG at the first 

stage, the skew angle averaged 2.875 

degrees, at the second 1.31. Thus, the 

angle changed by 1.565 degrees, due 

to normalization of muscle imbalance, 

due to the training of muscles in a 

state of hypotension. 

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UDC 796.011. 

PHYSICAL REHABILITATION 

OF ELDERLY PEOPLE AFTER 

A STROKE BY MEANS 

OF NORDIC WALKING 

Darya Isayeva 

Instructor of physical therapy center 

«Scandinavian health center» LLC-Institute 

of physical culture and sports of Moscow 

pedagogical state University, 

Moscow, Russia, 

E-mail: 79091637308@yandex.ru 

Sokolova, Vera S. Doctor 

of medical Sciences, Professor of the 

Department of theoretical foundations 

of physical culture and sports, Moscow 

pedagogical state University, 

Moscow, 

Email: vera_sokolova2@bk.ru 

Komissarova Alexandra Sergeevna 

Institute of physical culture and sports of the 

Moscow pedagogical state University, 

Moscow, Russia, 

E-mail: alexkom96@yandex.ru 

SOKOLOVA V. S. 

Doctor of medical Sciences, 

Professor of Moscow State 


ISAYEVA D. M. 

Second-year student of the 


Moscow 

ccording to WHO, the number 

of elderly people who have 

A had a stroke is growing steadily 

and takes 3rd place among 

all diseases of the nervous system. In 

Russia, 5–6 million elderly patients with 

a post-stroke condition are registered 

annually, with 32% of diseases ending in 

death. 

The most common form of stroke in 

old age is ischemic stroke (80% of cases) 

[5]. 

One of the ways to solve the problems 

of rehabilitation after a stroke is 

to exercise, in particular Nordic walking, 

which has several advantages over 

other physical activities. Nordic walking 

training strengthens the musculoskeletal 

system of an elderly person, 

develop coordination and increase 

endurance, harmoniously develop all 

muscle groups, improve metabolism, 

and also reduce excess weight. Currently, 

Nordic walking is considered 

one of the best means of physiotherapy 

for health promotion and disease 

prevention. 

PHYSICAL REHABILITATION OF ELDERLY PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUFFERED A 

STROKE BY MEANS OF NORDIC WALKING 

Darya Isayeva Instructor of physical therapy center «Scandinavian health center» 

LLC-Institute of physical culture and sports of Moscow pedagogical state University, 

Moscow, Russia, E-mail: 79091637308@yandex.ru 

Sokolova, Vera S. Doctor of medical Sciences, Professor of the Department of 

theoretical foundations of physical culture and sports, Moscow pedagogical state 

University, Moscow, Email: vera_sokolova2@bk.ru 

Komissarova Alexandra Sergeevna Institute of physical culture and sports of the 

Moscow pedagogical state University, Moscow, Russia, E-mail: alexkom96@yandex.ru 

• y Annotation. The article deals with physical rehabilitation for elderly people 

who have suffered a stroke. Nordic walking was used to restore the physical 

and functional state. At the stages of rehabilitation, an objective assessment 

of the physical condition was carried out. The developed method of Nordic 

walking allows you to strictly dose physical activity depending on the condition 

of patients after a stroke. 

• y Keywords: physical exercises, Nordic walking, rehabilitation methods, 

functional state, drinking regime. 

The aim of the work was a theoretical 

justification and verification of the effectiveness 

of the rehabilitation technique 

by means of Nordic walking for people 

who have had a stroke in old age. 

The work was carried out in conjunction 

with the Department of Physical 

Rehabilitation of the Medical University 

I.M.Sechenova. The study involved 30 people 

who had a stroke, aged 63–66 years. 



The study was conducted for twelve months. 

The training week consisted of 3 lessons, each 

lasting 30–60 minutes, depending on the patient's 

condition and well-being. 

Before the study, patients were given personal 

diaries to fill in daily data, which included 

items: 

1. Blood pressure (mmHg) 

2. 2. Heart rate (bpm); 

3. 3. Nutrition and drinking regimen; 

4. 4. An objective assessment of well-being. 

At the beginning of the study, patients underwent 

tests to determine the level of depression 

and mobility: 

1. Assessment of the level of depression; 

2. Rivermead Mobility Index. 

THE WORK IS CARRIED OUT JOINTLY WITH 

THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL REHABILITATION 

OF THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY. I.M.SECHENOVA. 

THE STUDY INVOLVED 30 STROKE SURVIVORS 

AGED 63–66 YEARS 

Nordic walking classes included a preliminary 

warm-up, which contributed to the preparation 

of muscles and the cardiovascular system before 

starting classes. The warm-up complex consisted 

of 8 exercises with sticks to develop flexibility and 

exercises in pairs for coordination. The experimental 

group at the beginning of classes performed 

walking at a slow pace – 60–80 steps per 

minute (speed 2–3 kilometers per hour). After a 

week of classes, the pace of walking increased to 

an average of 90–110 steps per minute (4–5 kilometers 

per hour). 

Further, the number of steps increased to 

120 or more per minute (fast pace), and patients 

covered a distance of 5-6 kilometers per 

hour. Monitoring of the state of the cardiovascular 

and respiratory system of walking was 

carried out in certain places of the distance by 

the methodologist for exercise therapy. During 

classes, all patients were offered a certain diet 

and fluid intake per day. In food and drinking 

regimen, patients had to observe certain conditions: 

If classes are held in he morning, then you 

need a light carbohydrate breakfast. 

Undesirable intake of milk, as there may be 

sensations of bloating and diarrhea. 

It was not recommended to use caffeine-containing 

drinks, as they affect the production of 

insulin. 

It is advisable to replenish fluid during training 

and after its completion. 

It is necessary to include protein products 

in the ratio 4: 1, i.e. 4 grams of carbohydrates, 1 

gram of protein – meat, fish, poultry, etc., to restore 

tissue, improve muscle hydration, increase 

insulin production, which leads to an increase in 

glycogen stores . 

The “Depression Level Assessment” questionnaire 

allowed us to evaluate the mood of 

an elderly person in points. The questionnaire 

includes 21 questions. The level of depression 

was characterized by the answers “yes”, “direct”, 

and the answers “no” – “reverse”. The calculation 

was carried out according to the formula: UD = 

Sum of “direct” + Sum of “inverse”, where Sum 

of “direct” is the sum of crossed out numbers 

to “direct” statements: No. 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 

15 ,19; The sum of the “inverse” is the sum of 

the crossed out numbers to the “inverse” statements: 

No. 2, 5, 6, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20. As 

a result, a UD that ranges from 20 to 80 points 

is obtained. 

If the UD is not more than 50 points, then a 

state without depression was diagnosed, if the 

UD is in the range from 50 to 59 points – mild depression 

of situational or neurotic genesis, 60–69 

points - subdepressive state, or masked depression. 

A true depressive state is diagnosed with UD 

of more than 70 points. 

In the study, the severity of the stroke was 

determined by the Rivermead Mobility Index. 

Mobility Index allows you to measure mobility. 

Patients were asked 15 questions regarding their 

functional status, and each positive answer was 

rated one point. 

This test was conducted for all students at the 

beginning and at the end of the course. Rehabilitation 

of patients after a stroke was carried out for 

3–4 weeks. The development of the program and 

the selection of rehabilitation tools depends on 

the neurological deficit. 

RESEARCH 

RESULTS 

1. After conducting research and processing 

the obtained data, the following was 

revealed: the control of heart rate and 

blood pressure allowed us to determine 

the presence of pathological abnormalities 

in the cardiovascular system at the 

beginning of the study and at the stages 

of training. 

2. 2. The use of a comprehensive methodology 

of exercise therapy and Nordic walking has 

led to an improvement in both morphofunctional 

indicators in students and their psychosomatic 

state. 

3. With the right diet and drinking diet, blood 

pressure normalizes, weight and cholesterol 

levels decrease, and back pain disappears. 



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4. All practitioners note a significant improvement 

in their general condition, an increase 

in working capacity, and mental and emotional 

activity. 

As can be seen from chart No. 1, eight patients 

show an increased level of depression in the initial 

stages of rehabilitation. In most cases, the answer 

to the questions “What has brought me great 

pleasure, and now causes me the same feeling?” 

and “It seems to me that I began to do everything 

very slowly?“ students noted a negative answer, 

due not only to the level of physical, but also psychological 

state. 

As can be seen from this diagram, 88% of the 

subjects showed an increase in the dynamics of 

mobility, which is noted by a decrease in the level 

of stress and depression. This is because the fixation 

of progress (testing at the intermediate stages 

of rehabilitation) motivated students to continue 

the assigned program. 

CONCLUSIONS 

1. The program of Nordic walking developed 

and proposed by us for elderly people who 

have suffered a stroke, aimed at physical rehabilitation, 

is effective and can be recommended 

for use in the practice of physical 

rehabilitation. 

2. As a result of the impact of the Nordic walking 

program in the elderly of the experimental 

group, statistically significant changes occurred 

in almost all studied parameters, which 

is confirmed by clinical and functional data 

(heart rate and blood pressure had a significant 

decrease). 

3. A positive impact on the psycho-emotional 

state of the students was noted, which was 

manifested by a significant increase in interest 

in classes both during and after the classes. 

4. All students noted an improvement in their 

general physical condition, improved sleep, 

increased performance and overall stamina. 

An important factor affecting health are outdoor 

activities, the community of interests 

of those involved, motivation to achieve 

positive result after the disease. 

14 

12 

10 

8 

6 

4 

2 

0 

35 

30 

25 

20 

15 

10 

5 

0 

Questionnaire "Assessment of the level of depression" 

Chart 1 

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1 3 5 7 9 1 1 1 3 1 5 1 7 1 9 2 1 2 3 2 5 2 7 29 

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

Depression Level Assessment 

Chart 2 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 0 1 1 1 2 1 3 14 

Yes answers 

Depression level 

No answers 

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young scientists: proceedings of the XI International Scientific Conference. July 5–6, 

2018 / Comp. Sokolova V.S. Sh.: Publishing house of the Shuy branch of IvSU, 2018.S. 

111–113. 

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Health is the basis of human potential: problems and solutions. 2013.V. 8, No. 2. – S. 768 – 

773. 

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S. 47– 49 

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ANALYSIS OF CHESS 

PLAYERS GROUPS IN THE 

REGIONS OF THE RUSSIAN 

FEDERATION 

Akimushkin R.V., PhD student 

of the Department of theory and 

methodology of individual-game 

and mind sports at the Russian State 

University of Physical Culture, Sports, 

Youth and Tourism (SCOLIPE), Moscow, 

Russia, akromaserp@mail.ru 

Gabbazova A.Ya. – PhD, Associate 

Professor at the Russian State University 

of Physical Culture, Sports, Youth and 

Tourism (SCOLIPE), Moscow, Russia, 

a_y_q@mail.ru 

R 

elevance of the research topic. 

The Russian chess school 

is still considered one of the 

leading in the world. At the same time, 

in different regions of Russia, chess is 

developed unevenly, management 

of chess development in the country 

lags behind the real needs of society – 

there are not enough qualified trainers 

and teachers, and the state order 

for their preparation is also very insignificant. 

Objective: to analyze the contingent 

of qualified chess players in the regions 

of Russia. 

Research methodology: statistical 

analysis of the data of the state census 

and rating of the RCF sheet. 

Research results and discussion. Currently, 

the leading chess regions in the 

Russian Federation are the Novosibirsk 

region and Kalmykia. In these regions, 

the highest percentage of qualified chess 

players to the total population is 0.31%. 

In the leading group for this indicator are 

the city of St. Petersburg, Sverdlovsk and 

GABBAZOVA A.YA. 

PhD, Associate Professor 

at the Russian State University of 

Physical Culture, Sports, Youth and 

Tourism (SCOLIPE) 

AKIMUSHKIN R.V. 

PhD student of the Department of theory 

and methodology of individual-game 

and mind sports at the Russian State 

University of Physical Culture, Sports, 

Youth and Tourism (SCOLIPE) 

ANALYSIS OF THE CONTINGENT OF QUALIFIED CHESS PLAYERS IN THE RE- 

GIONS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION 

Akimushkin R.V., PhD student of the Department of theory and methodology of individual-game 

and mind sports at the Russian State University of Physical Culture, 

Sports, Youth and Tourism (SCOLIPE), Moscow, Russia, akromaserp@mail.ru. 

Gabbazova A.Ya. – PhD, Associate Professor at the Russian State University of Physical 

Culture, Sports, Youth and Tourism (SCOLIPE), Moscow, Russia, a_y_q@mail.ru. 

• y Abstract: in the article is analyzed the contingent of qualified chess players in 

the Russian Federation in relation to the total population, the number of adults 

and school-age chess players. The regions of the country with a high level of 

population involvement in the Russian chess movement and lagging behind in 

this area are identified. 

• y Key words: statistical data, regions of Russia, total population, skilled chess 

players, young chess players, RCF rating list. 

Chelyabinsk regions. In Yakutia, Krasnoyarsk, 

Perm and Stavropol Territories 

the lowest rates are up to 0.1%. Figure 1 

shows the percentage of qualified chess 

players of the total population in the regions. 

Figure 2 shows the percentage of 

young qualified chess players (b. 2013– 

2001) of the total number of chess players 

in the country's regions. According to 

the data received, the largest percentage 

of school-age children playing chess 

in the Stavropol Territory is 93.85%. On 

average in Russia, the proportion of 

children among qualified chess players 

exceeds 70%. In Yakutia this indicator is 

the lowest in the country, young chess 

players make up only 48.76% of the total 

number of qualified chess players in the 

region. 



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The percentage of chess players in the region’s population 

Figure 1 - Percentage of qualified chess players of the total population in the regions of the Russian Federation 

Percentage of young chess players, 2001–2013 

Figure 2 - Percentage of young qualified chess players (b. 2013–2001) of the total number of chess players in the regions of the Russian 

Federation 

CONCLUSION 

Thus, chess as a sport in the Russian 

Federation is developed unevenly. 

Along with regions with high rates 

of chess development – Kalmykia, 

Tatarstan, Krasnodar and Primorsky 

Territories, Novosibirsk, Sverdlovsk, 

Chelyabinsk Regions, Moscow and St. 

Petersburg – regions with low rates 

were identified. Perm Territory and 

Stavropol. Yakutia has the lowest rate 

characterizing the development of 

children's chess in the region. This indicates 

a significant imbalance in the 

organization of chess as a sport in the 

country. 

The results obtained in the study can 

be used to improve the chess management 

system in the Russian Federation, 

to develop relevant directions for the 

development of chess sports in the regions. 

LITERATURE: 

1. Statistics of the population of Russia. – Access 

mode: www.statdata.ru. – 11/23/2019; 

2. The RCF rating list. – Access mode: http:// 

www.ratings.ruchess.ru/. – 11/18/2019. 

REFERENCES: 

1. Population statistics of Russia www.statdata. 

ru/. – 23.11.2019; 

2. RCF rating list http://www.ratings.ruchess. 

ru/. – 18.11.2019. 



EVOLUTION OF WOMEN’S 

PENTATHLON AND 

HEPTATHLON IN THE 

OLYMPIC GAMES 

EVOLUTION OF WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD 

PENTATHLON AND HEPTATHLON AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES 

Ushakova Natalya Aleksandrovna, candidate of pedagogical Sciences, associate Professor, 

rsupesy & t 

• Abstract: the article gives a brief history of the inclusion of the women’s pentathlon 

and heptathlon competitions in the Olympic athletics program with 

the indication of the winners. 

• Key words: Olympic games, athletics, track and field all-around, decathlon, 

women’s track and field pentathlon, heptathlon. 

Ushakova Natalya Alzeksandrovna, 

candidate of pedagogical Sciences, 

associate Professor 

T 

he victory in the multiathlon competitions 

was especially distinguished at 

the ancient Olympic Games in Greece, 

and the prestige of the winner in the track and 

field athletics competitions in men’s decathlon 

and women’s heptathlon is high. 

Sweden made a great contribution to the development 

of athletics all-around events, which 

included three all-around events in the program 

of the V Olympic Games in 1912 in Stockholm: 

pentathlon, men's decathlon in athletics and 

modern pentathlon. Undoubtedly, this decision 

was associated with the increased attention to 

comprehensive physical development of a human. 

After its Olympic debut in 1912, decathlon 

remained unchanged to this day. Dozens compete 

for two days. The long-term existence of 

decathlon shows that this exercise is quite well 

balanced in terms of skill and physical fitness of 

athletes. 

The development of women's athletics is inextricably 

linked with the struggle of women for 

their rights in sports. The International Olympic 

Committee (IOC), which included competition 

of male athletes in the program of the I Olympic 

Games in 1896 in Athens, did not recognize 

women's athletics for a long time. An active role 

in the development of women's sports in the 

early 20s of the 20th century was played by the 

Frenchwoman Alice Milliat, who created first the 

national, and then in 1921, the International Federation 

of Women's Sports (IFJS). This federation 

organized women's world championships (World 

Women's Olympiads) like the Olympic Games in 

1922, 1926.1932 and 1934. 

The international women's athletics pentathlon 

competition was first held at the World Women's 

Olympics in 1922 in Monte Carlo and ended 

in victory for the Englishwoman Lovman. Then 

pentathlon competitions included: running 60 

meters, long and high jumps, javelin throwing 

and 200 meters running. 

The International Athletics Federation (IAAF) 

in 1926 created a women's committee in conjunction 

with the International Federation of 

Women's Sports. Subsequently, the IAAF was not 

satisfied with the activities of the joint committee 

and in 1936 decided to lead women's athletics 

around the world. 

The IOC only in 1964 at the Tokyo Olympics 

allowed the women's pentathlon to be included 

in the athletics program. At the Olympic Games, 

pentathlon competitions were held 5 times from 

1964 to 1980. Competitions were held on the 

same day. The victory in the 1964 competitions 

with a new world record was won by the Soviet 

all-around Irina Press, Galina Bystrova received a 

bronze medal. 



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In subsequent years, Ingrid Becker (FRG, 

1968), Mary Peters (Great Britain, 1972), Zigrun 

Siegl (GDR, 1976) and the last Olympic champion 

in the pentathlon at the 1980 Olympic Games in 

Moscow became the Soviet athlete Nadezhda Tkachenko. 

. Together with N. Tkachenko, her teammates 

won the Olympic medals: silver Olga Rukavishnikova 

and bronze Olga Kuragin. All three 

exceeded the world pentathlon record. 

Since 1981, the IAAF has decided to replace 

the heptathlon in the program of international 

pentathlon competitions. Two new species are 

added in the program, and the competition takes 

place in two days. The first heptathlon competitions 

as part of the Olympic Games program were 

held in 1984 at the Los Angeles Games, in which 

the USSR did not participate. The victory was then 

won by G. Nunn from Australia. 

Subsequently, the title of Olympic champion 

in heptathlon was won by: J. Joyner-Kersey (USA, 

1988, 1992). G. Shua (Syria, 1996), D. Lewis (Great 

Britain, 2000), K. Kluft (Sweden, 2004), N. Dobrinskaya 

(Ukraine, 2008), D. Ennis (Great Britain, 

2012), N. Tiam (Belgium , 2016). Semiborka of Russia 

several times became winners of the Olympic 

Games: 1992 – Irina Belova, 2nd place; 2000 – Elena 

Prokhorova, 2nd place; 2008 – Tatyana Chernova, 

3rd place. 

LITERATURE: 

1. Orlov R.V. Legkaya atletika: spavochnik. – M.: Sovetski 

sport, 2011. 

2. IAAF Scoring Tables for Combined Events. 1998. Ushakova 

N.A., Ushakov A.A. Legkoatleticheskoe desyatiborie 

ha olimpiickihigrah. – M.: Olimpiiskibuy letten 

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FLAG TRAVELS THE PLANET 

A 

nd again, we report on travelling 

of the flag of MSSUOR 

No. 1. There are new stops on 

the way of the flag in exotic and colorful 

places of our planet. 

STOP – UTESA MOHER IN 

IRELAND 

Teacher of foreign languages of the 

Olympic Reserve School No. 1 Evteeva 

Ekaterina Borisovna has visited Ireland 

this year. And, of course, she could not 

help but stop at the cliffs of Moher, mesmerized 

by its grandeur, rightfully deserving 

of the title of the main attraction 

of Ireland. The cliff got its name in honor 

of Fort Moher, which was located on the 

coast and was destroyed during the war 

with Napoleon to erect a signal tower 

here. Cliffs of Moher became an involuntary 

participant in an episode that happened 

in the history of Ireland. In ancient 

times, these territories were inhabited by 

Druids – Celtic priests who possessed secret 

knowledge. When they felt that their 

religion was coming to an end due to the 

invasion of new settlers, many decided 

to commit suicide and threw themselves 

into the sea from the highest cliff. 

A sad legend is also associated with 

the southern point of the ridge of the 

Moher Cliffs. Once upon a time, the 

witch Mal fell in love with the courageous 

warrior Kuhulin and constantly 

pursued him. In the hope of lagging 

behind his mistress, Kukhulin easily 

jumped from stone to stone, moving 

away from her, and Mal was not so dexterous 

and, falling from a cliff, drowned 

in the deep sea. This rock is called Head 

of the Witch. The height of this cliff is 

120 m, further to the north it increases, 

and the highest point is 214 m. There is 

an observation tower built by the local 

landowner Cornelius O`Brien at the beginning 

of the 19th century, which is 

still operating today. 



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STOP IN CHICHEN ITZA 

The employees of our school, Ilya Viktorovich 

and Tatyana Vitalievna Kutiny, 

together with their son Yegor, while having 

holidays in Mexico, could visited one 

of the main attractions of the country – 

the Kukulkan pyramid, located in the 

ancient Mayan settlement in the state 

of Yucatan, 200 kilometers from Cancun. 

Chichen Itza is one of the largest, majestic 

and most well restored monuments of 

the Mayan era. 

And the Kukulkan pyramid is the most 

popular structure in the archaeological 

park of Chichen Itza. Four stairs lead to the 

temple on the platform of the priest, and 

the entrance to it is decorated with the 

mask God of the Rain Chaak. In the traditions 

observed during the construction of 

the Kukulkan pyramid, the ancients' commitment 

to numerology is traced. 

A notable feature of this temple 

building is its exact geographical position 

relative to the cardinal points and 

strict geometric shapes. So, twice a year, 

on March 20 and September 21, during 

the autumn and spring equinoxes, the 

“feathered serpent” descends – the visual 

appearance of the jagged body of 

a mystical deity in the form of a shadow 

cast by the geometric curves of the pyramid’s 

shapes. A chain of seven isosceles 

triangles and a stone head at the foot of 

Kukulkan amaze tourists coming to the 

ancient city of Chichen Itza from around 

the world. 


ANNOUNCEMENT OF UPCOMING SPORTS EVENTS 

BE PATIENT, 

FOLLOW THE 

RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE 

MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND 

PROTECT YOUR HEALTH 

THE SPORT WILL BE BACK 

SOON!

"Olympic Reserve" Scientific and Methodological Journal № 5, 2020

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