Grishin is an Olympic champion. Skating
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(05.06.1918 - 25.03.2011)
- outstanding Soviet speed skater, three-time world champion in classical all-around (1948-1950), six-time champion of the USSR (1945-1950, 1951), world record holder at a distance of 1500 meters (2:29.5), Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.
She played for the Voluntary Sports Society "Dynamo", Moscow. Since 1952, she worked as a coach at the USSR Speed Skating Federation. Awarded the Order of Lenin.
Honorary citizen of the city of Kirov.
Silver coin of the Bank of Russia, 2012
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(born 03/08/1939)
- legendary Soviet speed skater, the only six-time Olympic champion in speed skating history. In 1960 she won at distances of 1500 and 3000 meters, in 1964 - the absolute champion of the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck (Austria), won at four distances, two-time absolute world champion (1963, 1964), set world records at distances of 1000 meters (1963 -1968), 1500 meters (1960-1962) and 3000 meters (1967). She played for the Chelyabinsk "Burevestnik" and received the sports nickname, "Ural Lightning". At the end of her career she played for Lokomotiv Moscow. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1964), Candidate of Historical Sciences, Professor. She was awarded two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor (1960 and 1964), the Order of the Badge of Honor and the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 3rd degree (1999).
Silver coin of the Bank of Russia, 2012
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(born 03/23/1931)
- outstanding Soviet skater, multiple champion of the USSR (1956-1965), multiple world champion (1955-1968), author of many world records at distances of 500 meters (1956-1968), 1000 meters (1955-1967) and 1500 meters (1956-1959), two-time champion of the Olympic Games (1956 and 1960), absolute champion of Europe (1956). In the 1970s and 1980s. - in coaching, coached a number of leading athletes, in 1972 and 1976. - coach of the Soviet Olympic speed skating team. Awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1957), the Order of Lenin (1960). Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1952), Honored Coach of the USSR (1973).
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(born 04/29/1942)
- Soviet skier.
- Won every possible gold medal at the 1972 Olympics in Sapporo (10 km, 5 km and 3x5 km relay);
- 1976 Olympic champion in the 3x5 km relay;
- Vice-champion of the Olympic Games in 1968 (5 km, only Kulakova’s fall 500 meters before the finish allowed Swede Toini Gustafsson to get ahead of the Soviet skier) and 1980 (4x5 km relay);
- Bronze medalist at the 1968 Olympic Games (3x5 km relay) and 1976 (5 km);
- Won all possible gold medals also at the 1974 World Championships in Falun (10 km, 5 km and 4x5 km);
- Two-time world champion in 1970 in the 5 km and 3x5 km relay;
- 39-time champion of the USSR: 5 km (1969, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1979), 10 km (1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1982), 20 km) (1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981), 30 km (1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980), 4x5 km relay (1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 976, 1978, 1979, 1981).
- Winner of the very first World Cup 1978/79
- She was awarded the Order of Lenin, 3 orders of “Badge of Honor”, “For Services to the Fatherland” IV degree, the Silver Order of the IOC (1984) for services to world sports.
Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, Honored Worker of Physical Culture of the Russian Federation. - The best athlete of Udmurtia of the 20th century.
Silver coin of the Bank of Russia, 2013
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(born 02/29/1952)
- Soviet skier,
4-time Olympic champion.
In Innsbruck (1976) she won two gold medals in the 10 km race. and in the relay, and was second at a distance of 5 km. In Lake Placid (1980) she won at a distance of 5 km. and won silver in the relay race, in Sarajevo (1984) she won two silver medals at distances of 10 and 20 km, in Calgary (1988) she won a silver medal in the 10 km race. and bronze at a distance of 20 km, in Albertville (1992) she received a gold medal in the relay.
Five-time world champion. She won more than twenty gold medals at the USSR championships (1974, 1976-1977, 1983-1986, 1989, 1991) at various distances.
She was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Red Banner of Labor, Friendship of Peoples, and the Badge of Honor. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.
- Most medals for women in the history of the Winter Olympics (10 medals)
- The first athlete (both women and men) to win medals at 5 Winter Olympics in a row
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(14.10.1952 – 21.03.2011),
gymnast, absolute champion of the 1976 Olympic Games, winner of 7 gold, 5 silver and 3 bronze medals at the 1972, 1976 and 1980 Olympics,
world champion 1974 (rings), 1978 (all-around and rings), European champion 1971 (pommel horse and vault), 1973 (floor exercise and vault) and 1975 (all-around, floor exercise, vault).
Winner of the World Cup competition 1975-1977.
Multiple champion of the USSR. Awarded the Order of the USSR: Lenin, Red Banner of Labor, Badge of Honor.
Silver coin of the Bank of Russia, 2014
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(born December 27, 1934),
outstanding Soviet athlete - gymnast, the absolute champion of the Olympic Games in 1956 and 1960, until 2012 she had the largest collection of Olympic medals in the history of sports - 9 gold, 5 silver and 4 bronze.
Absolute world champion in 1958 and 1962, Europe in 1957 and 1961, Soviet Union in 1961 and 1962.
She was awarded the Order of the USSR - Lenin, Friendship of Peoples, three times "Badge of Honor", the Russian Federation - "For Services to the Fatherland" III Art. and IV Art., Honor, Ukraine - the Order of Princess Olga, III Art., Silver Olympic Order of the IOC.
Silver coin of the Bank of Russia, 2014
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(27.02.1932 – 30.05.2008),
outstanding Soviet athlete - gymnast, absolute champion of the 1960 Olympic Games, Olympic champion in competitions on various gymnastic apparatus in 1956 (pommel horse and team championship) and 1964 (high bar), absolute world champion 1958, European champion 1955, USSR 1954, 1957 -1960 and 1963, world champion 1954 and 1958, European champion 1955 and 1963, USSR 1957-1964. in certain types of all-around. Winner of the USSR Cup 1955-1962. Awarded the Order of the USSR: Lenin, Red Banner of Labor, Badge of Honor.
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(22.10.1929 - 20.03.1990)
- one of the best goalkeepers in the history of world football.
From 1949 until the end of his sports career in 1971, he played for the Dynamo sports club (Moscow). Since 1957 - Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, multiple winner of championships and cup tournaments of the USSR, winner of the European Cup,
champion Olympic Games
L.I. Yashin is a Hero of Socialist Labor, awarded the Order of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, medals, the IOC Olympic Order and the FIFA Golden Order.
Silver coin of the Bank of Russia, 2010
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(18.11.1920 - 06.05.2006)
- Soviet football player and a football coach.
Since 1944, he played as a forward in the Dynamo team (Moscow). Honored Master of Sports (1948), Honored Trainer of the USSR (1968). USSR champion (1945, 1949), winner of the USSR Cup (1953), member of Grigory Fedotov's scorers club (126 goals). K.I. Beskov was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree, Friendship of Peoples, two orders of the Badge of Honor, the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II and III degree, and many medals.
Silver coin of the Bank of Russia, 2010
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(21.07.1937 - 22.07.1990)
- one of best Soviet strikers throughout the history of football, he played in the Torpedo team. At the age of 17 he made his debut in the USSR national team, at the age of 18 he was the top scorer of the USSR championship (1955),
at 19 years old - Olympic champion(1956 Melbourne - Australia).
The best football player of the USSR (1967, 1968), member of Grigory Fedotov's scorers club. The prestigious Russian Sagittarius award, which has been awarded annually since 1997 to the country's best football players, is named in his honor. E.A. Streltsov was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor, and the Torpedo stadium in Moscow was named after him.
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(01.12.1922 - 01.07.1979)
- Honored Master of Sports, Honored Trainer of the USSR.
In the world history of sports he was the only one, who combined his performances in football with ice hockey (1947 - 1953). Champion of the Olympic Games (1956), world (1954, 1956) and European (1954 - 1956) in hockey, repeated champion of the USSR in football and hockey, scored 332 goals in total.
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Vsevolod Bobrov
Postage stamp, Russia, 2013.
XXII Olympic Winter Games - Sochi-2014.
Silver coin of the Bank of Russia, 2009
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(born 04/20/1949)
- legendary Soviet hockey player.
Since 1968, as a member of the USSR national ice hockey team, Honored Master of Sports, 9-time world champion, 8-time European champion and 2-time Olympic champion, absolute record holder of the USSR national team. Played 530 matches and scored 329 goals. In 1970, at the World Championships, he topped the list of snipers, scoring 15 goals, and was recognized as the best striker on the planet.
Silver coin of the Bank of Russia, 2009
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(14.01.1948 - 27.08.1981)
- since 1969 as a member of the USSR national team in hockey with a puck, Honored Master of Sports. He played 438 matches for CSKA and scored 293 goals, 123 matches for the USSR national team at the World Championships and Olympic Games and scored 89 goals. For the period from 1969 to 1981. became champion of the USSR 11 times, European champion 7 times, world champion 8 times, Olympic champion twice. Forward Kharlamov V.B. generally recognized as one of the most technical forwards in world hockey.
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In 2013, a film about Valery Kharlamov was released - “Legend No. 17”.
Silver coin of the Bank of Russia, 2010
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(born 09/12/1949)
- outstanding figure skater, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1969), competed in pairs figure skating for CSKA in 1968-1972. with Ulanov A.N., and since 1973 - with Zaitsev A.G. Rodnina I.K. - champion of the USSR in 1970-1971, 1973-1975 and 1977, Europe and the world in 1969-1978 and 1980,
Olympic Games in 1972 with Ulanov A.N., in 1976 and 1980. with Zaitsev A.G. Zaitsev Alexander Gennadievich
(born June 16, 1952)
- outstanding figure skater, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1973), performed in pairs figure skating for CSKA with Rodnina I.K. Zaitsev A.G. - champion of the USSR in 1973-1975, 1977, Europe and the world in 1973-1978, 1980,
Olympic Games in 1976 and 1980
Silver coin of the Bank of Russia, 2010
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(31.12.1946 - 17.05.1986)
And Gorshkov Alexander Georgievich
(born 10/08/1946)
competed in ice dancing for Dynamo (Moscow). Multiple champions of the USSR, Europe, world and Olympic Games(1976). L.A. Pakhomova was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor. A.G. Gorshkov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, Friendship of Peoples, "Badge of Honor", "For Services to the Fatherland" IV degree. As six-time world and European champions in ice dancing, they are included in the Guinness Book of Records.
Evgeny Grishin crashed. Four-time Olympic champion sold his medals to survive
On July 10, 2005, the legendary Soviet athlete, four-time Olympic champion in speed skating, participant in five Olympics, Evgeny Grishin, died in the city hospital of Dedovsk near Moscow. The second heart attack, which happened a year after the first, the heart of the 74-year-old “sir” (as he was once called in the national team, which meant: speed, elegance, record) could not withstand...On July 10, 2005, the legendary Soviet athlete, four-time Olympic champion in speed skating, participant in five Olympics, Evgeny Grishin, died in the city hospital of Dedovsk near Moscow. The second heart attack, which happened a year after the first, the heart of the 74-year-old “sir” (as he was once called in the national team, which meant: speed, elegance, record) could not withstand...
Evgeniy Romanovich was buried in Moscow at the Troekurovsky cemetery. His great coach also found his final rest there. Konstantin Kudryavtsev, two-time Olympic champion Lyudmila Averina and world champion Boris Stenin, the same legends of domestic speed skating as Grishin. “Romanych will not be bored,” his famous student told me Valery Muratov. May be. But almost no one knows that Romanych was buried in this cemetery... due to a misunderstanding. His wife thinks so. The workers of the ritual service Marina Valentinovna, who wanted to bury her husband at the Novokuntsevskoye cemetery (created instead of the closed Kuntsevskoye), which is next to Troekurovskoye, did not hear something or, perhaps, misunderstood. Her parents, famous father, first vice-president of FIFA, rest there Valentin Granatkin. When she was confronted with the fact that the grave had been dug at the Troyekurovsky cemetery, it was too late to change anything. Incredible. But it's a fact. Exceptional, unlike everyone else, Grishin remained true to himself even after death...
DEMARCHES IN OLYMPIC HELSINKI
“There is only one place - the first, and everything else is an addition to it.” These words from the winner of the Tour de France Louisona Bobe, read in a sports magazine as a boy became Grishin’s life motto. He remained a maximalist in any situation, even when it seemed crazy.
At his first Olympics, in July 1952 in Helsinki, he came first in the Soviet cycling team in the sprint race and in the 1 km standing round. But he never made it to the start. Why? As presented by the athlete himself, this story looks like this.
On the eve of the competition, he and his coach were summoned by the head of the Soviet delegation Nikolay Romanov and, referring to the instructions of the Central Committee of the party, ordered to switch from an English-made bicycle, on which Grishin was going to perform, to a domestic “KhVZ”, specially manufactured for our Olympians by the Kharkov bicycle factory. In vain Evgeniy tried to convince him that he had never seen a product of poorer quality than the “HVZ-special order”; in vain he showed him the still unhealed wounds from the terrible fall that happened after this bicycle broke down during one of the training sessions. Romanov was adamant: Soviet athletes must promote domestic technology...
And then Grishin loudly slammed the door, not forgetting to finally offer the head of the delegation a ride on the “miracle bike.” And a few minutes later, the man sent by Romanov gave Evgeniy an order: to urgently get ready to go home...
Character, they say, is determined by actions. Only an overconfident person could afford such a thing at that time (and it was 1952, don’t forget).
People who knew Romanych well can, however, object: it is easy to be a rebel, having such a patron as “the son of the father of all nations” Vasily Stalin. Indeed, Grishin did not hide the fact that Vasily played a huge role in his fate. In particular, thanks to the commander of the Moscow Military District aviation, he changed his Tula registration to Moscow and became an officer, a member of the famous Air Force team. But in Helsinki, Stalin Jr. had nothing to do with it: integrity, quarrelsomeness and prickliness were the innate qualities of Yevgeny Romanovich...
BEATING IN TARASOVKA
Already being a famous athlete, Olympic champion, world record holder and absolute European champion, he became restricted from traveling abroad.
The problems began after, on the eve of the Moscow speed skating match between the USSR and Norway, he beat up his understudy, a teammate, at the Spartak base in Tarasovka Gennady Voronin. This happened after the morning of the start, when excited Gennady suddenly began running from room to room, preventing everyone from resting. And when he saw several hockey players of the USSR national team in Grishin’s room (they also had a training camp in Tarasovka), he went wild in public. The Presidium of the USSR Skating Federation later regarded Evgeniy’s decision to calm down the uninvited guest as “an action discrediting the dignity of a Soviet athlete,” removed him from the national team and “deprived him of the right to travel abroad.”
They “pardoned” him, however, quickly, in the winter of 1959, but only after a serious conversation in the Central Committee of the party. And in January 1966, the sports world was rocked by a terrible tragedy - a four-time world champion in speed skating was stabbed to death in her apartment. Inga Artamonova. The killer turned out to be her husband, the same understudy who was offended by Grishin. “If then the federation had objectively sorted out the situation and punished not me, but this psychopath, Inga would still be alive,” this thought tormented Romanych to the end.
SKATES OR BICYCLE?
In the summer of 1956, two-time Olympic champion in speed skating, silver medalist of the USSR Championship and the World University Games in cycling, Evgeniy Grishin made another attempt to compete at the Summer Games. In a then new form of bicycle racing - tandem. But Kudryavtsev intervened, very unhappy that his passion for cycling was distracting his student from skating. He made an appointment with Romanov and posed the question bluntly: if Grishin is allowed to start in Melbourne, we will forever lose him as a speed skater. The minister, in love with skates, immediately issued an order prohibiting Grishin from combining two sports.
How worried Evgeniy was! He was confident that he would have won a medal in Melbourne. And when I found out that the silver medalist there was a Czechoslovakian couple, who were not our rivals, I completely lost my head...
But Kudryavtsev and Romanov could be understood: speed skaters like Grishin are born once in a century; at the age of 16 he was already the world leader at a distance of 500 meters...
In 1956, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Grishin became the first to win the Winter Olympics with a world record. It is symbolic that this happened in the very first race, which fell to him by lot in his favorite “five hundred”. But “sir,” who arrived at the Olympics already as a world record holder, was not satisfied with this: he won the second distance - 1500 meters - with a world record.
Grishin called his fifty-sixth year his own because, firstly, he won all the major competitions of the season, except for the World Championship, and secondly, he met his future wife, the USSR champion in pairs figure skating, on the Riga seaside Marina Granatkina…
RED IN BLUE
For his second Winter Olympics in '60, he flew across the ocean to Squaw Valley with the dream of becoming the world's first speed skater to run 500 meters in under 40 seconds. It didn’t work out at official competitions, although he again won Olympic gold medals at his two signature distances. In the 500m race, he exactly repeated his world record from four years ago - 40.2. But when, after the Games, the owners organized special competitions to break records at the same skating rink, he still fulfilled his dream, running in 39.6 seconds. He later considered this result his main achievement in Squaw Valley. Although no. When journalists asked: “What struck you with America?”, he answered: “The red Soviet flag in the blue American sky. It was very beautiful!..”
0.04 SECONDS AND FOUR YEARS
The tragedy of the great weightlifter Yuri Vlasov at the 64 Olympics in Tokyo eventually became the talk of the town. More than confident in his victory, he was eventually content with silver and lived with this pain every day. Grishin had the same story, and also - at the 64 Olympics, only winter, in Innsbruck (interestingly, both were the team’s standard bearers at the opening ceremony of the Games). That season, before the main start, Evgeniy competed in more than fifty competitions, including the World, European, and USSR Championships, did not lose even once, and did not see anyone who could prevent him from winning his third Olympics. And when such a sprinter was found - an American Richard McDermott who showed a result four hundredths of a second better, was, by his own admission, ready to fall into the ground from shame.
“On the second step of the podium I found myself as an uninvited guest,” Grishin later recalled. - That evening I did not go to the Olympic Village, but went to visit our tourists at the monastery where they were accommodated. I walked along the alleys and watched how the monks read the Bible every free minute. And I, like those monks, remembering by heart all the commandments of sports, I realized: my consolation is only victory in the future!”
EVIL GENIUS MCDERMOTT
McDermott forced Grishin to stay in the sport for another four years. But “sir” never had the chance to win the Olympics again. This had to happen, but it was this American who stood in the way of 36-year-old Romanych at the Games in Grenoble, depriving him of even a bronze medal in the last race...
In the same 1968, after the USSR-Norway match in Sverdlovsk, Grishin ended his career as an athlete. He became the senior coach of the CSKA cycling team and the USSR national team.
In 1970, at the World Championships, the Soviet cycling team, which mainly included army athletes, won the 100-kilometer road race for the first time, and in ’73, Evgeniy Romanovich’s student Valery Muratov won the world sprint all-around championship. Nevertheless, in the late 70s I had to leave coaching...
“The greater the success of my team, the more I moved away from my family. From month to month, he appeared at home only for two or three days, a maximum of a week. My daughter has already begun to forget that I am her father,” he later recalled. In the end, he abandoned the national team, but it was too late: his wife filed for divorce.
He didn’t even try to dissuade her, because he understood that it was not only constant travel that prompted his wife to make such a decision: the main reason was his, figuratively speaking, constant search for truth at the bottom of the glass...
COGNAC AS AN ANCOSIS
Why did Grishin start drinking? No one can give an exact answer to this question. I don’t remember who once said that drunkenness is a surrogate for freedom. What kind of freedom did this legendary speed skater, famous coach, man who made the history of Russian sports require?
Maybe it's all about genes? In one of his books, Romanych said that his paternal grandfather in his youth “three liters of moonshine was just enough for the evening.” But I’m sure that’s not the reason. Alcohol after sports, in my opinion, became his only salvation, which allowed, at least illusory, to rise to the heights at which he was accustomed to being. “Every morning began with cognac, and all day - until late evening - there were always friends and complete strangers in my apartment,” he recalled, several years later, about that period shrouded in alcohol fumes.
He infused himself with cognac as an anesthesia, so as not to feel the realities of a real, uncomfortable life outside the skating rink oval, otherwise there would be a catastrophe akin to the one when a terminally ill patient suddenly wakes up on the operating table and begins to look at a world that no longer belongs to him. It was then that he took an irreparable step, which he was ashamed of all his life: he sold all his Olympic medals...
And yet, one day Romanych, as it seemed to many, stopped. The “last straw” was a serious conversation with his daughter Elena, who threatened to separate her beloved grandson from him forever if the spree did not stop. The verdict was not subject to appeal: “Gosh should not see his grandfather, once invincible, strong and strong-willed, slowly but surely sinking to the bottom.”
“Believe me, everything that a person has to overcome in life: unbearable pain, physical and mental torment is nothing compared to overcoming the craving for alcohol. Just child's play. No one here knows when this torment will end or whether it will end at all. We only know: if you relapse even once, the addiction will remain for the rest of your life. That is why a person who has overcome the craving for alcohol, and with it himself, must live every day under strict self-control.” Grishin wrote this himself. In 2000. I have never read such confessions in autobiographical books of famous athletes before, and it is unlikely that I will ever read them. Courage for such revelations is a thing...
CHAMPION KILLED BY CHAMPIONSHIP
Evgeniy Romanovich did not lose Gosha. And he even brought his family back. In recent years he lived with his wife, daughter and grandson. But he still didn’t have enough willpower to fight the addiction...
If it weren’t for the World Speed Skating Championships, which took place in early February of this year at the new skating rink in Moscow, Grishin would be alive now. I will allow myself such a categorical statement, because while working on this material, I was irrevocably convinced of this.
“He didn’t drink for a long time, and when he arrived at the championship, he lost his temper, which led to a second heart attack,” is the opinion of the head of the Union of Athletes of Russia, three-time Olympic champion Galina Gorokhova. But not everyone I spoke to was so specific.
Valery Muratov, world champion in sprint all-around, Olympic medalist, Grishin’s student, says:
In recent years, Evgeny Romanovich lived almost constantly at his dacha in the village of Sokol, which is a little over twenty kilometers from Moscow along the Volokolamsk Highway. I went there in the spring and until the first frost. The last time I saw him was at the World Championships. After a long break, he again plunged into the world that he probably dreamed of at night. Dozens of familiar faces, including those in foreign delegations, almost forgotten interest in himself among journalists, crowds of fans eager for an autograph, a new ultra-modern skating rink in the end, which he was never destined to go to - all this became for the extremely emotional Romanych extreme stress. He was, of course, very worried.
The hearing aid, which was not adapted to such an intense load, which he began to use in recent years due to the consequences of a concussion received during the war, also played a negative role.
However, there were no signs of illness. On the contrary, Romanych was in excellent shape: sociable, cheerful, and joked a lot. Asked me to hand over my latest book Vyacheslav Fetisov, to whom I was very grateful for securing scholarships for Olympic champions.
But when the next day my brother Yuri came to Romanych to take him to the skating rink again (the championship lasted two days), he flatly refused. He said that he felt very bad, his head was pounding: long-term communication through a hearing aid was still a serious burden. And his heart was beating even when playing sports. He once told me that back in the early 50s, doctors discovered he had arrhythmia, blockade of the left ventricle of the heart and zero lower pressure caused by heavy loads...
As for the alcoholic breakdown at the championship, I don’t know. Did not see…
“IT HAS NEVER HAPPENED SO MUCH...”
Valery Alekseevich does not want to talk about this. But, unfortunately, there was a breakdown. Yevgeny Romanovich could not resist the temptation to drink a glass or two on occasion with friends. But he was categorically forbidden to do this, because at that moment he was coded for alcohol dependence...
Georgy, grandson of Evgeniy Romanovich, says:
After the World Cup, my grandfather spent several days in Moscow, in an apartment on Novopeschanaya, since the dacha was undergoing renovations at that time. One evening I went to see him and saw him lying on the sofa and holding his chest. His heart, he says, is pounding. I immediately called an ambulance. The doctor did an ECG and diagnosed a heart attack. They took him to a regular city hospital, I no longer remember its number. He spent two weeks there, and when the doctors allowed him to be transported, Yuri Alekseevich Muratov, one of my grandfather’s students, and I transported him to the cardiology center in Khovrino.
He remained there until the end of May. After being discharged, I spent some time in Moscow, waiting for the construction work at the dacha to be completed. Then I took him there. Throughout June he seemed to feel fine. The ninth of July was the birthday of his daughter, my mother. We sat in the family circle and talked. All was good. In the evening I left for Moscow, and in the morning I found out that my grandfather had passed away. He felt bad at night and had a heart attack. “It has never hurt so much before” - these, as my mother later told me, were his last words. The ambulance arrived quite quickly, his mother went with him to the nearest hospital in Dedovsk, but they couldn’t do anything there, since a blood clot had broken off and blocked the artery...
PRIVATE BUSSINESS
Grishin Evgeniy Romanovich. The world's best sprint speed skater of the 50s and early 60s, the first to run 500 m faster than 40 seconds. Born on March 23, 1931 in Tula. Honored Master of Sports. Honored Coach of the USSR (1973). He played for CSKA. Participated in one summer (1952, cycling) and four winter Olympics (1956, 1960, 1964, 1968). Four-time Olympic champion: in 1956 - at distances of 500 m (40.2) and 1500 m (2.08.6), in 1960 - at distances of 500 m (40.2), 1500 m (2.10.4). Absolute European champion 1956 (190.692 points in the all-around). Silver medalist of the 1964 Winter Olympics at a distance of 500 m (40.6). Bronze medalist at the 1954 (200.353) and 1956 (188.660) world championships. Twelve-time world record holder (1955 – 1968) at distances of 500, 1000, 1500 and 3000 m. Ten-time champion of the USSR 1956, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965. at distances of 500 and 1500 m. Awarded the Order of Lenin (1960) and the Red Banner of Labor (1957).
The history of post-war speed skating is replete with the names of Soviet champions. From 1948 to 1966, girls from the USSR only missed out on the all-around championship title once. Isakova, Selikhova, Stenina, Skoblikova - this is an incomplete list of athletes who did something unimaginable on the ice. But she managed to surpass them all Inga Artamonova, who won four world titles for the first time in history. However, the fate of the outstanding athlete can hardly be called happy: she never competed at the Olympics and did not live to be 30 years old - she was killed by her cruel and jealous husband.
War, tuberculosis, rowing
Inga had an ordinary military childhood - difficult and hungry. The war broke out when the girl was not even five years old. The family was malnourished, Inga was often sick, and the next doctor’s visit completely upset the whole family - the girl was diagnosed with tuberculosis. The doctor recommended that his relatives prepare for the worst: in the difficult conditions of wartime it was almost impossible to recover; this required good nutrition and comfort. Fortunately, exacerbations of Inga’s disease occurred infrequently. Yes, and live a couple of years after the war
It became easier: my mother got a job on a steamship that sailed along the Volga and received a decent salary, although she was not home for weeks. The children were looked after by their grandmother Evdokia Fedotovna, who loved her granddaughter Inga very much.
The windows of the old house on Petrovka, where the Artamonov family lived, overlooked the Dynamo stadium, and Inga as a child spent hours on the stadium’s skating rink. Sometimes I just ran in circles there when there was no one else my age to have fun with. But when it came to serious sports, the girl was sent to rowing. This sport helped develop the chest and fight tuberculosis. And by the age of 18, Inga managed not only to cope with the disease, but also to fulfill the standard of a master of sports, and also become a contender for inclusion in the Soviet Union national team. However, the girl never really fell in love with rowing - her passion for skating was stronger.
Two laurel wreaths
“Rowing is not my thing,” Inga told her coach. “I will go in for speed skating.” He retorted: “You are 177 centimeters tall! But in skating you need short muscles.” But Artamonova firmly decided to switch to speed skating: “Just think! I’ll show everyone with my long ones!” And it’s true, it showed! But not at once. At the USSR championship in 1955, the athlete took only 21st place, but hard training bore fruit: the following year she became the absolute champion of the country, setting a new world record for the all-around total. However, the competition in the Soviet Union national team was colossal, and Inga was not accepted into the team. People really believed in it only in 1957. Artamonova went to the World Championships in Imatra for the first time and immediately became the owner of the champion’s laurel wreath. The spectators were so delighted with the girl’s performance that after the end of the competition they rocked her in their arms for several minutes. Happy Finnish spectators stole the laurel wreath as souvenirs.
The war broke out when the girl was not even five years old. The family was malnourished, Inga was often sick, and the next doctor’s visit completely upset the whole family - the girl was diagnosed with tuberculosis.
However, a year later, Inga still managed to bring home a memorable prize. In Kristinehamn, the Soviet speed skater won her second title in a row. Artamonova also brought back memories of her first serious love from Sweden. At the tournament, she met a wealthy Swede from the organizing committee named Bengt. The romantic relationship between the Soviet champion and the Swedish millionaire became known when one evening Inga was missed while going to the cinema. She arrived at the hotel in the morning, explaining her absence by saying that she was riding in a car with Bengt. Such behavior was considered unacceptable in the 50s. The athlete was awaiting trial at home.
Restricted champion
Artamonova enjoyed enormous popularity in the country, thousands of fellow citizens worried about her at domestic and international competitions, but this did not stop the KGB from banning her from traveling abroad for several years. Because of this, the strongest Soviet athlete did not go to the 1960 Winter Olympics. The start of a new Olympic cycle was also not easy for Inga - due to lung problems in childhood, it was difficult for the athlete to perform at high-altitude skating rinks. However, due to the peculiarities of her character, Artamonova never retreated from difficulties. She managed to overcome them this time too: in 1962, Inga became the absolute world champion for the third time, repeating the achievement of Maria Isakova and simultaneously updating a number of world records.
Thousands of fellow citizens worried about Artamonova at domestic and international competitions, but this did not stop the KGB from banning her from traveling abroad for several years.
It seems that Inga’s family life has also changed for the better. Even before the 1960 Olympics, she married a speed skater Gennady Voronin. However, it soon became clear that the husband was far from the girl’s ideals. He was an unpleasant, cruel man and jealous of his wife's victories. The more she won, the more often he raised his hand to her, trying to assert himself. Voronin struck so that the bruises were not visible to anyone, and his wife hid the discord in family relationships.
Moscow lightning rod
After the victory in 1962, Inga again began to be haunted by failures. In 1963, she underwent a long course of treatment for an ulcer. By the time of the USSR Championship, the athlete had almost recovered and even fulfilled the conditions that the national team coaches had set for her - she was among the top three winners in one of the distances. However, Voronin was not accepted to the World Championship. She also did not go to the Olympics, which took place in Innsbruck. However, even after this, the athlete did not give up, but continued to fight with her rivals on the ice. At the USSR Championships at the end of the Olympic season, she again proved her strength to everyone, including ahead of Lydia Skoblikova, who won four gold medals at the Games in Austria. “A Moscow lightning rod was found for the Ural lightning,” wrote Inga’s fans, pleased with the return of their favorite.
The 1965 World Championships, held in the Finnish city of Oulu, were marked by a confrontation between two Soviet athletes: Inga Voronina and Valentina Stenina. Valentina was close to winning her third title and equaling Inga. The fate of the championship wreath was decided by the outcome of the 1000 meter race. Voronina was two seconds faster than her compatriot and became the first four-time world all-around champion in the history of speed skating. She won the world championships at individual distances 10 times, updated world records almost a dozen times and, perhaps, could have achieved more, because she was only 29 years old. All that remained was to go to the 1968 Olympics and win gold there.
"My darling, my darling"
At the skating rink, Voronina was a happy winner, but returning home brought her only misfortunes - her relationship with her husband became worse and worse. Inga did not dare to file for divorce for many years, believing that this story would become a bad example for thousands of Soviet people. However, on the eve of 1966, the decision to divorce was still made. Gennady and Inga, by mutual agreement, decided to put an end to family quarrels and scandals. Before the New Year holidays, Inga turned to Dynamo with a request for help with the exchange of living space. The chairman of the club’s board wrote a note to Voronin asking him to come to a meeting with him on January 4 at 9:00. However, in the morning he went not to Dynamo, but to the store. Having bought a bottle of wine there, Voronin drank it without eating, and went to his mother-in-law, where his wife had recently lived. They let him into the house, asked what he needed, and he, quietly and calmly saying “my darling, my darling,” stabbed his wife in the heart. One blow was enough: the ambulance doctors did not have time to save the champion.
They let him into the house, asked what he needed, and he, quietly and calmly saying “my darling, my darling,” stabbed his wife in the heart.
Thousands of people from all over Moscow came to bury Artamonova. Some wreaths especially resembled laurel wreaths - those that Inga received four times. And the next day after the funeral, it seems that someone noticed a richly dressed foreigner crying inconsolably. It was rumored that he introduced himself as a certain Bengt.