Viktor Spiridonov
| Viktor Spiridonov | |
|---|---|
| Born | Viktor Afanas'yevich Spiridonov 20 December 1882 |
| Died | 7 September 1944 (aged 61) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Style | Sambo |
| Rank | Merited Master of Sports of the USSR |
| Notable students | Anatoly Kharlampiyev |
Viktor Spiridonov was a researcher of various kinds 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.
Private business, zavedёnnoe on Spiridonov as "Dynamo" employee, it was destroyed in 1941. The only source of information about its pre-revolutionary biography is his own business as an employee of Universal Military Training courses, found a historian of Russian systems of unarmed combat MN Lukashev in the Central State Military-Historical Archive of the USSR. According to the written Spiridonov own track record, he descended from the philistines Vyatka province. At seventeen, not graduating from high school, he went to the army as a private - "volunteer In his paper he was sent to the Kremlin battalion. Earned non-commissioned officer's stripes and was sent to Kazan Infantry School, where he studied in the same platoon with the future Marshal of the Soviet Union AI Egorov.
In 1905, VA Spiridonov in the rank of second lieutenant went to the Russian-Japanese War, fought in the cavalry reconnaissance. He was awarded the Order of St. Anne IV-nd and III-rd degree and the Order of Stanislaus III-th degree with a sword and a bow.
Since 1906, VA Spiridonov carried away fashionable then in Europe "jiu-jitsu", which he studied for unreleased then in Russia and in Europe, benefits and self-instruction.
At the rank VA Spiridonov met senior pupil, schoolgirl, a merchant's daughter Claudia finishing, which began to help in high-school classes. It was at this time that he received the order for a transfer to a third Siberian Reserve Infantry Regiment Nerchinsk. In order not to be separated from his future wife, he sacrificed a career: resigned, having lost the right to get the next rank. A few months later, he again entered the service, but in the military unit, which was based not far from its restriction - in the 238th Klyazminskoe reserve battalion, formed more by Peter I.
In the First World War VA Spiridonov from the first day it proved to be at the front. He was seriously wounded, he spent a year in the hospital, after which he was "dismissed from the service with the production of the next rank and awarded the uniform and pensions
The revolution has deprived the retired Stabskapitän, even that little officer's pension which he received. He odd jobs, once was briefly arrested. In 1919 he became an accountant in the main armor control of the Red Army.
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