According to the fans, the hockey player Boris Alexandrov was like Zhirinovsky in politics. He always climbed into scandals or fights, was rude to judges, threw a stick at the audience, allowed himself a lot, but he was a hockey player from God.
Nugget from Ust-Kamenogorsk
The future hockey player of CSKA Boris Alexandrov was born on November 13, 1955 in Ust-Kamenogorsk, in an ordinary working-class family. Nobody was involved in sports, but senior Aleksandrov loved hockey. In winter, he poured an ice patch in the yard so that the boys could throw the puck. This homemade skating rink was the first in the life of Boris. When his ice palace appeared in the city in 1969, the 14-year-old Boris immediately enrolled in the hockey section. His first coach was Yuri Tarkhov. Two years later, Boris began to go out on the ice for the local Torpedo team.
March 1973 is coming. The Moscow team of CSKA comes to the city to conduct a series of friendly matches. Then the playing coach of the army was Anatoly Firsov. He noticed a short, quick guy. In the summer, Boris receives an invitation from CSKA, he moves to Moscow.
In Moscow
18-year-old Boris got into the link to a little older and more experienced Vikulov and Zhluktov. Having a small height and weight, the hockey player Boris Alexandrov shows a wonderful game (height 174 cm, weight - less than 80 kg). The young guy stood very well on skates, the game showed excellent and quickly became his own in the famous team.
Boris falls into the youth team of the USSR and in 1974-75. participates in the youth championship of the USSR. The team wins both tournaments. In November 1975, Boris made his debut in the main national team, participating in a match with the Czechs. A year later, the Winter Olympics takes place in Innsbruck. The Soviet team takes first place. Alexandrov at the age of 20 becomes the owner of the Olympic "gold".
In the same year, the USSR national team fights for the Canada Cup. Boris plays so actively and well that Canadians consider him the best Russian player. As Vladislav Tretyak later recalled those games , Canadians were delighted. The New York Times wrote a huge article about a Russian hockey player who made a splash.
But the teammates took Boris's game for granted. They knew his abilities well, in training, he threw more goals to the Tretyak than Kharlamov, and were not surprised at how enthusiastic and energetic Boris had meetings with Canadians.
Alexandrov himself, recalling these games, said that he did not feel any fear of powerful Canadians and boldly went to power tricks.
The arrival of Viktor Tikhonov in the national team
A year later, in 1977, Anatoly Tarasov, the head coach of the national team, was replaced by Viktor Tikhonov. He becomes the coach of CSKA and the coach of the USSR team.
Tikhonov’s coaching style did not please Boris. The guy is young and hot, not always correctly evaluating everyday situations due to little experience then, he begins to conflict with Tikhonov. Boris did not conceal that the experience and authority of such a mentor as Tarasov was more important to him than the authority of Tikhonov. Tikhonov came to coaching from Riga Dynamo, he did not reach special heights as a player. At the same time he was demanding and did not tolerate violators of discipline.
All this together and the wayward, conflicting character of Aleksandrov ultimately played a sad role in his career, and maybe even his whole future life.
Tikhonov saw a negative attitude towards himself a young player, and, of course, he was unpleasant. Clashes and friction occurred between them constantly, especially since Boris constantly gave rise to this.
Tikhonov, characterizing Boris, emphasized his lack of discipline, moodiness, and even foolishness. Paying tribute to the talent of the hockey player, Tikhonov believed that the glory that had come so early to a weak moral guy did not do him any good. As Tikhonov recalled, not only his assertiveness and daring, but also frank rudeness, rudeness, and hostility to the opponent were striking.
Translation by Boris Alexandrov
In 1979, there was another verbal skirmish between the coach and Boris because of a violation of the regime. Boris boorishly responded to the remark, for which he was transferred from CSKA to the lower level team of the SKA MBO.
He did not stay long in this team, and former coach of the national team Boris Kulagin helped transfer back to the big leagues. Alexandrov begins to play for the Moscow Spartak. As part of Spartak, he is in the top three with Shalimov and Rudakov. Hockey players win the prestigious prize "Three scorers."
Hockey player Boris Alexandrov: personal life
Playing in CSKA, Boris made friends with Viktor Zhluktov. He recalled that at first he did not like the cocky and arrogant Boris, but then they became best friends. Boris then had an affair with the daughter of Nikolai Kryuchkov Ella. The young couple did not have their apartment, they often met in Victor's apartment.
Soon the guys got married. Magnificent celebration was celebrated in the restaurant of the hotel "Ukraine". The daughter Katya was born. Young did not live long. There was a divorce. Boris after some time met Jeanne. In his second marriage, he had two sons. The boys followed in the footsteps of their father and also became hockey players. Senior Alan outlived his father by a year and a half. Like Boris, he crashed to death in a car accident on April 6, 2004.
"Bastard"
When Boris first appeared in CSKA, the young cocky guy was given the nickname "bastard." The captain of CSKA and the national team Boris Mikhailov recalled that the nickname was accurate. Boris was beyond his years of high skill and fighting character. But at the same time he did not look at authorities, allowed himself to reckless actions.
A painful impression on everyone was made by a trick in 1977 at a match in Luzhniki. Played CSKA and Spartak. At the end of the second period, Boris disabled the main striker of the red-white Valentin Gureev. Having gained speed, Aleksandrov crashed into Gureev, who had not seen anything. He hit his head on the side and lost consciousness. Boris was removed for 5 minutes for being rude, and Gureev was taken to a hospital with a concussion. He did not go out on the ice anymore: the guy became disabled.
The next day, a glaring case was given an assessment. The team captain Mikhailov, the Komsomol Tretiak sharply condemned the friend's trick. Aleksandrov was disqualified for two games, and then removed from the national team and was not invited to join her anymore.
Remembering later this time, Aleksandrov regretted his actions.
Leaving Spartak
Until 1982, hockey player Boris Alexandrov, whose biography is brought to your attention in the article, played for Spartak. Then, at one of the trainings, he received a serious fracture injury and went to be treated in Ust-Kamenogorsk. There was a question about leaving sports.
At this time, the local “Torpedo” was headed by Viktor Semykin, who invited Boris to play in the team. He agreed.
With Aleksandrov, the provincial middle team was able to qualify for the big leagues; at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano , they reached the quarter-finals and became fifth. At Torpedo, he played several seasons. In 1988, together with Igor Kuznetsov, he won the prize “Knight of Attack”.
At this time, he receives an invitation from the Italian club "Milan", and Boris leaves to play in Italy. After 2 years he returned to Moscow, playing for the student team "Alice".
In 1994, Boris was invited to his homeland, in the “Torpedo”, playing coach. He agrees. The position of the club is not the most brilliant, including financially, but he agrees. Soon he was appointed head coach of Torpedo and the national team of Kazakhstan. In this status, he works until July 2002.
Last summer
In July 2002, a tournament was held in Chelyabinsk. The team "Spartak" was played by his youngest son, Victor. Boris went to the game in his BMW car to cheer on his son. At the village of Ust-Katav, Aleksandrov's car drove into the oncoming lane when overtaking and collided with the Volga. Aleksandrov and the passenger of the Volga were killed.
Today, on the site of the death of a hockey player there is a monument in the form of a puck. Hockey player Boris Alexandrov was buried, the cause of death of which you already know, in Moscow, at the Mitinsky cemetery.
In Ust-Kamenogorsk, in memory of the illustrious player, an annual ice hockey tournament is held among amateurs and veterans. A memorial plaque is installed on the house where he grew up . The Ice Palace, in which the hockey player began his career, bears his name since 2010.
Aleksandrov became the Olympic champion, but he never received the title of Honored Master of Sports.