Anatoly Kharlampiyev | |
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Training self-defense techniques, 1957, Moscow Power Engineering Institute
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Born | Anatoly Arkadyevich Kharlampiyev 29 October 1906 Smolensk, Russia |
Died | 16 April 1979 Moscow, Soviet Union |
(aged 72)
Nationality | Russian |
Style | Sambo |
Teacher(s) | Vasili Oshchepkov |
Rank | Merited Master of Sports of the USSR |
Anatoly Arkadyevich Kharlampiyev (Russian: Анато́лий Арка́дьевич Харла́мпиев; 29 October 1906 – 16 April 1979) was the world famous researcher of various kinds of national wrestling and martial arts, Merited Master of Sports of the USSR, Honored Coach of the USSR. He was one of the founders of Sambo, a martial art developed in the Soviet Union. Kharlampiyev worked as a physical education trainer at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East, and also was dedicated student of boxing, having also studied fencing, acrobatics, and mountaineering. In 1938, Kharlampiyev presented Sambo to the USSR All-Union Sports Committee, which recognized the martial art as an official sport.
Santa AA Kharlampiev - Georgy Harlampiev - was a gymnast and pugilists. For many years he collected, studied and classified the various techniques of unarmed combat, combat and self-defense. There are legends of his strength: his fingers tore trёhkopeechnye coins; suffered three horses stopped (in a carriage which was his future wife), and others.
Father - Arkady G. Harlampiev (1888-1936) - graduated with honors from the Imperial Academy of Arts and to continue their studies in Paris was sent at public expense. After some time, due to lack of funds to continue the study began performing professionally European ring. Soon he became the champion of France, and then - and in Europe (in the absolute category). Back in Russia, Arkady G. began to popularize boxing. He is considered one of the founders of the Russian school of boxing.
From his early childhood Harlampiev trained father and grandfather. For six years he served in the room trapeze artists under the big top. The sixteen - was quite versatile and well-trained athlete and a champion boxer.
AA Harlampiev dedicated his life to the creation and development of a new application of the sport - Sambo. Since the beginning of 1920 he began to collect and systematize national games containing methods of struggle; since 1934 - to describe and classify the sports and fighting techniques. In 1936 he graduated from the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism (Department of judo directed by Vasili Oshchepkov).