Anatoly Harlampiev - judoist, sambo wrestler, coach

From time immemorial, the Russian land was famous for its heroes, who possess remarkable physical strength, ingenuity, agility and fighting skills. Of course, as in the twentieth century there was such a person in the territory of the Soviet Union who became famous for the whole world, creating a new wrestling system for those times, one can even say, a whole direction. The name of this hero is Anatoly Arkadievich Kharlampiev. About the life and fate of this outstanding athlete and coach, we'll talk about this article.

Birth and ancestors

Anatoly Kharlampiev was born in 1906, far from us. Today, it is positioned as a researcher of national types of struggle of peoples living then in the USSR. He is considered the founder of modern single combat under the name Sambo.

Grandfather of our hero - George Yakovlevich - was a wonderful gymnast and an excellent fighter. Possessed extreme physical strength. According to his contemporaries, he could bend a coin worth three copecks with his fingers. There is even a tradition, according to which, he met his wife due to the fact that he was able to stop a troika of horses who were carrying her and sharply incurred forward.

Father Anatoly Arkadievich once received a distribution for training in Paris for public account. But remaining there without any means of livelihood, was forced to start performing in the ring, where he became famous. Upon his return to Russia, he was able to become almost the ancestor of the Soviet boxing school.

Admission to martial arts

At the age of six, Anatoly Kharlampiev, training under the guidance of his grandfather, and his father, began his performances as an aerial gymnast under the dome of the circus. And already 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.

Work in the Red University of the Working People of the East

In this university many revolutionaries with great experience from the countries of the Far East were trained. Most of them were also notable masters of martial arts. Therefore, Anatoly Arkadievich had an excellent opportunity to practice with representatives of various fields. In addition, he ran well, fenced, was a high-class acrobat and climber. He was personally acquainted with Poddubny, Bule, Spoel.

The Creator of Sambo

By and large, the creation of this struggle, Anatoly Kharlampiev devoted his entire life to his adult life. Back in the early 20-ies, he began to collect in a single whole the various games and the struggle of the peoples known to him. Already in 1943 he classified and described combat and sports techniques.

Properly speaking, Kharlampiev divided Sambo into two main components: sports and combat. The first implied the foundation for the fighter, and the second was a target applied superstructure, focused on a narrow circle of professionals.

As the basis for his offspring, the outstanding Russian sportsman took judo. It was this type of Japanese martial arts that he studied under the guidance of his good friend Oschepkov Vasily Sergeevich, who lived in the Land of the Rising Sun for a long enough period of time and even graduated from Kodokan.

Activities during the Second World War

Kharlampiev Anatoly Arkadevich went to the front as a volunteer. During the service, he was repeatedly awarded orders and medals, taught combat skills of hand-to-hand combat, helped to master ski equipment, made a number of programs for the treatment of violations of various functions after injuries and wounds. Was slightly injured. He had the rank of a senior lieutenant.

Life after the war

Anatoly Kharlampiev in the postwar years actively continued to develop and promote coaching techniques on sambo. Beginning in 1953, he became an associate professor of the Physical Education Department of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute.

Anatoly Arkadievich went to classes not only simple townsfolk, but even well-known athletes who achieved high performance in other sports. Also, his training was attended by people whom doctors did not admit to studies in other martial arts schools.

In the 1950s, Japanese masters awarded Kharlampiev the eighth dan in judo. Such a level for a person who is not Japanese, in those days was simply unattainable, and the Soviet representative was for a while a unique coach of his kind.

Anatoly Kharlampiev, Sambo for whom was the work of his whole life, died on April 16, 1979.

Heirs

In honor of the great coach, since 1980, the Sambo Cup "Anatoly Kharlampiev Memorial" is held. The most famous pupil of the legendary sportsman is Valery Volostnykh, to whom he has been awarded the title of Honored Coach of Russia. It was he who managed to prepare a whole galaxy of outstanding athletes who have become world-class sports masters, world and European champions and successfully representing their homeland in international tournaments.