From time immemorial, the Russian land has been famous for heroes with remarkable physical strength, ingenuity, agility and fighting skills. It goes without saying that in the twentieth century there was such a person on the territory of the Soviet Union who became famous throughout the world, creating a new wrestling system for those times, one might even say a whole direction. The name of this hero is Anatoly Arkadievich Kharlampiev. We will talk about the life and fate of this outstanding athlete and coach in this article.
Birth and ancestors
Anatoly Kharlampiev was born in 1906, far from us. Today he is positioned as a researcher of the national types of struggle of the peoples living then in the USSR. He is considered the founder of modern martial arts called sambo.
The grandfather of our hero - Georgy Yakovlevich - was an excellent gymnast and an excellent fighter. Possessed extreme physical strength. According to his contemporaries, he could bend a coin with a face value of three kopecks with his fingers. There is even a legend according to which he met his wife due to the fact that he was able to stop the three horses that drove her and carried her abruptly forward.
Anatoly Arkadyevich's father at one time received a distribution for training in Paris at state expense. But left there without any means of livelihood, he was forced to start performing in the ring, where he became famous. Upon returning to Russia, he was able to become practically the ancestor of the Soviet boxing school.
Martial Arts
At the age of six, Anatoly Kharlampiev, training under the guidance of both his grandfather and father, began his performances as an aerialist under the circus dome. And at the age of 16 he was an experienced fighter and, in general, a very versatile athlete. Then he began to strive to develop something of his own in martial arts.
Jobs at the Red University of the East Workers
Many revolutionaries with extensive experience from the countries of the Far East studied at this university. Most of them were also notable martial artists. Therefore, Anatoly Arkadievich had a great opportunity to practice with representatives of various fields. In addition, he ran well, fenced, was an upscale acrobat and climber. He was personally acquainted with Poddubny, Bul, Spul.
Sambo creator
By and large, Anatoly Kharlampiev devoted his entire life path to adulthood. As early as the beginning of the 1920s, he began to put together various games and wrestling of the peoples he knew. Already in 1943 he classified and described military and sports techniques.
In fact, Kharlampiev divided sambo into two main components: sports and combat. The first implied a foundation for a fighter, and the second was a targeted applied superstructure focused on a narrow circle of professionals.
An outstanding Russian sports figure took judo as the basis for his brainchild. It was this type of Japanese martial arts that he studied under the guidance of his good friend Oshchepkov Vasily Sergeyevich, who lived in the Land of the Rising Sun for a rather long period of time and even graduated from the Kodokan.
Activities during the Second World War
Kharlampiev Anatoly Arkadyevich went to the front as a volunteer. During the service, he was repeatedly awarded orders and medals, taught fighters hand-to-hand fighting skills, helped to master ski equipment, made a number of programs for the treatment of violations of various functions after injuries and injuries. He was slightly injured. He had the rank of senior lieutenant.
Life after the war
In the postwar years, Anatoly Kharlampiev actively continued to develop and promote sambo coaching techniques. Since 1953, he becomes an assistant professor of physical education at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute.
The classes for Anatoly Arkadevich were attended not only by ordinary inhabitants, but even by eminent athletes who achieved high rates in other sports. Also, his training was attended by people whom doctors were not allowed to attend classes in other martial arts schools.
In the 1950s, Japanese masters awarded Kharlampiev the eighth dan in judo. Such a level for a non-Japanese person in those days was simply unattainable, and the Soviet representative was for some time the only trainer of its kind.
Anatoly Kharlampiev, for whom sambo was a matter of his life, died on April 16, 1979.
The heirs
In honor of the great coach, starting in 1980, the Anatoly Kharlampiev Memorial World Cup in Sambo was held. The most famous pupil of the legendary sports figure is Valery Volostnykh, who is today awarded the title of Honored Coach of Russia. It was he who managed to prepare a whole galaxy of outstanding athletes who became masters of sports of international class, world and European champions and successfully representing their homeland in international tournaments.