Anatoly Kharlampiev managed to create combat system capable of making a superhero out of a simple Soviet citizen. Having absorbed all the best, sambo has become our answer to judo, karate and boxing. An answer that is understandable without any words.

Kharlampiev family

The surname Kharlampiev is translated from Greek as "shining light". The grandfather of Anatoly Kharlampiev, Georgy, conscientiously rose to the rank of court adviser, was a respected person in society and a real strongman.

In the book of Eduard Khrutsky "This Furious Russian", it is said that in the Kharlampiev family great importance was given to exercise, Georgy Kharlampiev raised his son Arkady in strict discipline, conducted athletic classes with him.

Kharlampievs participated in fisticuffs on the bank or ice of the Dnieper. Georgy Kharlampiev did not position himself as a fighter, at that time all physically developed people were simply called gymnasts.

But the gymnast Georgy Kharlampiev was special, he tore a three-kopeck coin with his fingers, once he stopped a running horse with his hands.
George's son, Arkady, was an artist, climber and the first professional Russian boxer. In order to earn money to support his family and study at the Paris Academy of Fine Arts, he took part in fights for money under the pseudonym Charles Lampier. Returning to Russia, he developed boxing, taught at the central police school and other educational institutions, wrote in collaboration with Gretier and Gradopolov study guides boxing, calling it "the noble art of self-defence".

A worthy son and grandson

Anatoly Kharlampiev was thus a hereditary fighter. His grandfather is a strongman and father is a boxer with early childhood raised the child in an atmosphere of respect for athleticism and hard work. At the age of six, the future "father of sambo" performed in the circus, performing gymnastic somersaults under the dome of the arena.

At the age of 16, he was already a versatile athlete, while still at school he was engaged in strength athletics, gymnastics, wrestling, boxing, mountaineering.

However, Anatoly Kharlampiev was not just a strongman and athlete, but he was also keenly interested in art, studied painting, sculpture, and studied at a music college. However, martial arts still remain his true passion. After school, Anatoly Kharlampiev completed courses for sports instructors and began working in the Society of Builders of the International Red Stadium and the Red University of the Workers of the East as a teacher of physical education. At the same time, Kharlampiev met Nikolai Podvoisky, chairman of the Sportintern, who "thrown" him the idea of ​​​​creating a universal freestyle wrestling. Apparently, then Kharlampiev "fired up."

teachers

Until now, when Kharlampiev is called the "father of sambo", heated debates flare up on the Internet about his "paternity". Kharlampiev's teacher was a friend of his father, Vasily Oshchepkov. He was a real "locomotive" for the development of martial arts in Russia. In 1913, Oshchepkov graduated from the Kudokan school in Japan, he studied with Jigoro Kano himself and became the third European to receive a second dan in judo.

In Russia, Oshchepkov opened a judo school, taught hand-to-hand combat policemen and soldiers of the Red Army, held tournaments.

However, Oshchepkov not only promoted judo, but also went further: he introduced the Russian names of techniques, replaced the bow with a handshake before and after the fight, introduced weight categories and "wrestling", changed the cover of the jacket and introduced into the arsenal of judo techniques from national types of wrestling, which he studied while traveling around the republics of the Union. Oshchepkov can indeed be considered one of the patriarchs of sambo, but not a father, but rather a "grandfather". Anatoly Kharlampiev systematized the techniques of Soviet freestyle wrestling in clothes (as sambo was originally called).

Adopting Skills

Even during his work at the Red University of the Workers of the East, Kharlampiev got the opportunity to study various martial arts techniques, as students from different parts of the country studied at the educational institution: from Central Asia, from Siberia, from the Far East. There were also foreigners - Mongols, Chinese.

Later, Kharlampiev, like Oshchepkov, began to travel around the regions, to the Caucasian and Asian republics, he himself participated in fights, never getting tired of mastering new techniques.

About this period of his life in 1983, the film "Invincible" was shot, in which the role of Kharlampiev was played by Andrei Rostotsky. By 1936, when Kharlampiev defended his diploma, he had already collected more than 1000 receptions from different types struggle.
Immediately after the start of World War II, Kharlampiev volunteered for the front. Having ended the war in the troops that defeated the Kwantung Army, he also learned to wrestle from captured Japanese, in whose convoy there were about a dozen tatami. Starting to fight as a simple soldier, Kharlampiev was demobilized with the rank of senior lieutenant, and earned orders and medals.

open system

Unlike all traditional martial arts, sambo is still an open system. The initial impetus for development was given by judo, but sambo quickly outgrew it, including in its arsenal not only techniques from national types of wrestling (kuresh, chidaoba and others), but also techniques of army combat systems.

In the early 60s, on the eve of the Tokyo Olympics, the best judokas of Japan arrived in the USSR for the first time with their coaches.

When they got acquainted with Soviet sambists, they had no doubts - sambo is a fundamentally new system.

Everything for sambo

In the 50s, the Japanese awarded Kharlampiev an honorary eighth dan in judo, which was simply unthinkable for a non-Japanese. Over the years of his coaching(only at MPEI Kharlamipiev taught for 25 years), he trained 70 masters of sports. In 1961, judo was included in the program Olympic Games, sambo wrestlers began to leave sambo for judo, which, of course, could not run into Anatoly Kharlampiev, but this "outcome" showed how versatile sambo is.

This is also proved by the successes of Russian sambo masters in competitions in mixed martial arts.

Kharlampiev was devoted to sambo, putting his whole self into its development. Even when sambo became a popular sport (it was even included in the TRP-2 standards) and there was not enough space in the halls, Kharlampiev did not refuse anyone. The first training with the master began at 9 am, the last at 9 pm.
Kharlampiev himself did not demand anything for his achievements for himself and his family, for a long time he lived in a communal apartment. One room was for him both a bedroom, an office, and a kitchen.
The "father of sambo" died in 1979, leaving behind a school, masters and a new efficient view martial arts.

Anatoly Kharlampiev's awards

Order of the Red Star

Medal "For the Defense of Moscow"

Medal "For Military Merit"

Medal "For the Capture of Koenigsberg"

Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1947)

Honored Trainer of the USSR (1958)

Memory of Anatoly Kharlampiev

The first All-Union SAMBO tournament in memory of A. A. Kharlampiev was held in Moscow in the Druzhba universal sports hall on October 10-11, 1980. Since 1982, these competitions have become international.

One of the streets of the "New Moscow" was named after the founder of sambo A. Kharlampiev. Anatoly Kharlampiev Street is a new territory in the settlement of Filimonkovsky, located between Kievsky and Kaluga highway. The length of the street is 1 kilometer. In the area of ​​this street it is planned to build sports complex with halls for sambo.

On October 18, 2018, the Institute for the Development of SAMBO named after A. A. Kharlampiev was opened at the National Research University "MPEI", designed to become the basic research organization for the development of sambo in Russia and the world

A memorial plaque to Kharlampiev was installed on the building of the MPEI library building (sculptor - Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts Salavat Shcherbakov)

Books by Anatoly Kharlampiev

Kharlampiev A. A. SAMBO system (collection of documents and materials, 1933-1944). - M.: Zhuravlev, 2003. - 160 p. - ISBN 5-94775-003-1.
Kharlampiev A. A. SAMBO wrestling. - M .: "Physical culture and sport", 1949. - 182 p.
Kharlampiev A. A. Tactics of fighting SAMBO. - M .: "Physical culture and sport", 1958.
Kharlampiev A. A. SAMBO wrestling. - M .: "Physical culture and sport", 1964. - 388 p.

Family of Anatoly Kharlampiev

Grandfather - Georgy Yakovlevich Kharlampiev, was a gymnast and fist fighter. For many years he collected, studied and classified various methods of hand-to-hand combat, wrestling and self-defense.

Father - Arkady Georgievich Kharlampiev (1888-1936), graduated with honors from the Academy of Arts and was sent to Paris to continue his studies at public expense. After some time, due to lack of funds to continue his studies, he began to perform in the professional European ring. Soon he became the champion of France, and then - of Europe (in absolute category). Returning to Russia, he began to popularize boxing. He is considered one of the founders of the Russian boxing school.

Brother - Georgy Arkadyevich Kharlampiev

Spouse - Nadezhda Samoilovna

Daughter - Lyudmila Kharlampieva

Son - Alexander

Grandson - Arkady

16.04.1979

Kharlampiev Anatoly Arkadievich

Soviet sports figure

Honored Master of Sports of the USSR

Honored Coach of the USSR

Anatoly Kharlampiev was born on October 29, 1906 in the city of Smolensk. From early childhood he studied martial arts, first under the guidance of his grandfather Georgy Yakovlevich, an outstanding gymnast and fist fighter, and then his father Arkady Georgievich, a boxing champion of France and Europe, considered the founder of the Russian school of boxing. Already at the age of six he was performing in aerial gymnasts under the dome of the circus, and at the age of sixteen he was a versatile athlete and a well-trained wrestler and boxer. Even while studying at school, he was engaged in power athletics, gymnastics, mountaineering. He was also interested in art, studied painting, sculpture, studied at a musical college.

Later, Kharlampiev studied Judo Kodokan under the guidance of Vasily Sergeyevich Oshchepkov, who is also considered to be one of the founders of Sambo wrestling, along with Viktor Afanasyevich Spiridonov. But he was especially interested in the national types of martial arts of the peoples of the USSR, which he studied and systematized for many years, describing and classifying their techniques.

Almost immediately after completing his studies, Anatoly Kharlampiev began teaching physical education at the Communist University of the Workers of the East, where representatives of different nationalities studied, including those from the Central Asian and Caucasian republics, many of whom mastered national martial arts. Thus, teaching students, he studied himself. Organizing and participating in fights with his students, he adopted from them unique hand-to-hand combat techniques, peculiar only to certain ethnic groups.

In addition to teaching practice, Anatoly Arkadyevich regularly, at least once a year, went on research expeditions to Soviet republics where he studied new styles of martial arts and improved his skills. Since 1935, he conducted freestyle juu-do training at the Moscow Wings of the Soviets Sports Palace. In 1936 he graduated from the Russian State University physical education, sports, youth and tourism.

The result of many years of research and regular and intensive practice was the creation of the Sambo combat system, which included two sections: the sports section - the basis of the style and the combat section, which includes additional techniques intended for employees power structures. The official date of the creation of freestyle wrestling, as Sambo was then called, is considered to be 1938, when the system was recognized as an independent sport in the USSR, and Anatoly Kharlampiev was appointed head coach.

The most important stage in the life of the master was the Great Patriotic War. During the war, Kharlampiev repeatedly showed courage and valor, for which he was awarded the Order of the Red Star, medals "For the Defense of Moscow", "For Military Merit", "For the Capture of Königsberg". After the Victory, he transferred to the troops who managed to defeat the Kwantung Japanese Army. Even during the war, he continued to study, showing interest in the captured Japanese, learning from them and arranging fights with them. Passion for martial arts helped win over the prisoners and make them respect themselves even under such difficult circumstances.

After the end of the war, Anatoly Arkadyevich directed all his efforts to the development and popularization of Sambo. Since 1947, the championships of the USSR have been continued. In the same year, on his initiative, the second all-Union meeting of coaches was held. It was decided the new kind wrestling in clothes, call it sambo wrestling, and also create a sambo wrestling federation.

Sambo wrestling competitions began to be held regularly in cities, regions and republics Soviet Union. The publication of educational and methodological literature on sambo has begun. Sports and educational work with youth, teenagers and employees of law enforcement agencies in sambo sections, which was carried out by Anatoly Arkadyevich Kharlampiev and his associates, contributed to an increase in the number of sambo wrestlers in the USSR.

Since 1953, Anatoly Arkadyevich was an associate professor at the Department of Physical Education of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute. From that time on, sambo wrestling began to spread in non-sports and non-military universities of the country. During his work, he trained dozens of masters of sports of the USSR in sambo. Among them are three-time USSR middleweight champion Alfred Karashchuk, USSR flyweight champion Vadim Izbekov, silver and bronze medalist of the USSR championships in light heavyweight Yuri Zabolotsky, bronze medalist Viktor Golyakov.

Anatoly Arkadyevich Kharlampiev died on April 16, 1979 at the age of seventy-two. He was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

Anatoly Arkadyevich Kharlampiev is a man who has made a huge contribution to modern martial arts. He actively explored the martial arts and national types of wrestling of different peoples of the USSR. It was Anatoly Kharlampiev who became one of the founders of the now famous martial art sambo.

The surname Kharlampiev is translated from Greek as “shining light”. The grandfather of Anatoly Kharlampiev, Georgy, conscientiously rose to the rank of court adviser, was a respected person in society and a real strongman. In the book of Eduard Khrutsky “This Furious Russian”, it is said that physical exercises were of great importance in the Kharlampiev family, Georgy Kharlampiev brought up his son Arkady in strict discipline, conducted athletic classes with him.

The Kharlampievs took part in fisticuffs on the banks or on the ice of the Dnieper. Georgy Kharlampiev did not position himself as a fighter, at that time all physically developed people were simply called gymnasts. But the gymnast Georgy Kharlampiev was special, he tore a three-kopeck coin with his fingers, once he stopped a running horse with his hands. George's son, Arkady, was an artist, climber and the first professional Russian boxer. In order to earn money to support his family and study at the Paris Academy of Fine Arts, he took part in fights for money under the pseudonym Charles Lampier. Returning to Russia, he developed boxing, taught at the central police school and other educational institutions, co-wrote boxing textbooks with Gretier and Gradopolov, calling it "the noble art of self-defense."

Anatoly Kharlampiev was thus a hereditary fighter. His grandfather, a strongman and father, a boxer, raised the child from early childhood in an atmosphere of respect for athleticism and hard work. At the age of six, the future “father of sambo” performed in the circus, performing gymnastic somersaults under the dome of the arena. At the age of 16, he was already a versatile athlete, while still at school he was engaged in power athletics, gymnastics, wrestling, boxing, and mountaineering. However, Anatoly Kharlampiev was not just a strongman and athlete, but he was also keenly interested in art, studied painting, sculpture, and studied at a music college. However, martial arts still remain his true passion. After school, Anatoly Kharlampiev completed courses for sports instructors and began working in the Society of Builders of the International Red Stadium and the Red University of the Workers of the East as a teacher of physical education. At the same time, Kharlampiev met Nikolai Podvoisky, chairman of the Sportintern, who “thrown” him the idea of ​​​​creating a universal freestyle wrestling. Apparently, then Kharlampiev “fired up”.

Until now, when Kharlampiev is called the “father of sambo”, heated debates flare up on the Internet about his “paternity”. Kharlampiev's teacher was a friend of his father, Vasily Oshchepkov. He was a real “locomotive” for the development of martial arts in Russia. In 1913, Oshchepkov graduated from the Kudokan school in Japan, he studied with Jigoro Kano himself and became the third European to receive a second dan in judo. In Russia, Oshchepkov opened a judo school, taught hand-to-hand combat to policemen and soldiers of the Red Army, and held tournaments. However, Oshchepkov not only promoted judo, but also went further: he introduced the Russian names of techniques, replaced the bow with a handshake before and after the fight, introduced weight categories and “wrestling”, changed the cover of the jacket and introduced techniques from the national types of wrestling that he studied into the judo arsenal. traveling through the republics of the Union. Oshchepkov can indeed be considered one of the patriarchs of sambo, but not a father, but rather a “grandfather”. Anatoly Kharlampiev systematized the techniques of Soviet freestyle wrestling in clothes (as sambo was originally called).

Even during his work at the Red University of the Workers of the East, Kharlampiev got the opportunity to study various martial arts techniques, as students from different parts of the country studied at the educational institution: from Central Asia, from Siberia, from the Far East. There were also foreigners - Mongols, Chinese. Later, Kharlampiev, like Oshchepkov, began to travel around the regions, to the Caucasian and Asian republics, he himself participated in fights, never getting tired of mastering new techniques. About this period of his life in 1983, the film “Invincible” was shot, in which Andrei Rostotsky played the role of Kharlampiev. By 1936, when Kharlampiev defended his diploma, he had already collected more than 1000 tricks from different types of wrestling. Immediately after the start of World War II, Kharlampiev volunteered for the front. Having ended the war in the troops that defeated the Kwantung Army, he also learned to wrestle from captured Japanese, in whose convoy there were about a dozen tatami. Starting to fight as a simple soldier, Kharlampiev was demobilized with the rank of senior lieutenant, and earned orders and medals.

Unlike all traditional martial arts, sambo is still an open system. The initial impetus for development was given by judo, but sambo quickly outgrew it, including in its arsenal not only techniques from national types of wrestling (kuresh, chidaoba and others), but also techniques of army combat systems. In the early 60s, on the eve of the Tokyo Olympics, the best judokas of Japan arrived in the USSR for the first time with their coaches. When they got to know Soviet sambists, they had no doubts - sambo is a fundamentally new system.

In the 50s, the Japanese awarded Kharlampiev an honorary eighth dan in judo, which was simply unthinkable for a non-Japanese. Over the years of his coaching activity (only at MPEI Kharlamipiev taught for 25 years), he trained 70 masters of sports. In 1961, judo was included in the program of the Olympic Games, sambists began to leave sambo for judo, which, of course, could not run into Anatoly Kharlampiev, but this “outcome” showed how versatile sambo is. This is also proved by the successes of Russian sambo masters in mixed martial arts competitions. Kharlampiev was devoted to sambo, putting his whole self into its development. Even when sambo became a popular sport (it was even included in the TRP-2 standards) and there was not enough space in the halls, Kharlampiev did not refuse anyone. The first training with the master began at 9 am, the last at 9 pm. Kharlampiev himself did not demand anything for his achievements for himself and his family, for a long time he lived in a communal apartment. One room was for him both a bedroom, an office, and a kitchen. The “father of sambo” died in 1979, leaving behind a school, masters and a new effective type of martial arts.

Family and early years

Grandfather A. A. Kharlampiev - Georgy Yakovlevich Kharlampiev - was an outstanding gymnast and fist fighter. For many years he collected, studied and classified various methods of combat, struggle and self-defense. Being extremely strong, he could tear a coin of three kopecks with his fingers. There is a legend that he future wife once she rode a troika and the horses carried her; disaster seemed imminent. However, Georgy Yakovlevich was walking along the same street, who was able to stop the troika - that's how they met.

Father - Arkady Georgievich Kharlampiev - graduated with honors from the Academy of Arts and was sent to study in Paris at public expense. After some time, he was left without funds and, in order to continue his studies, began to perform in the professional European ring. Soon he became the champion of France, and then of Europe, in the absolute category. Returning to Russia, over time, he became the founder of the Russian, and then the Soviet school of boxing.

At the age of six, Anatoly Arkadyevich, who was trained by his grandfather and father, performed in aerial gymnastics under the dome of the circus. At the age of sixteen, he was already a mature fighter and a very versatile athlete.

Sambo

Based on these travels of A. A. Kharlampiev, in 1983, the film "Invincible" was filmed.

Already an outstanding master, Kharlampiev studied classical judo under his father's friend, Vasily Sergeevich Oshchepkov, who lived in Japan for a long time and trained at the Kodokan judo school.

In 1938, sambo wrestling gained official status, and Kharlampiev headed the USSR Sambo Federation, however, the development of a new type of wrestling was suspended by the Great Patriotic War. In its very first days, Kharlampiev volunteered for the front; his service has been recognized with many awards. Having finished the war in the Far East, he learned to wrestle already from Japanese prisoners, in whose convoy there were ten mats for judo.

After the war, he continued his work on the spread and development of sambo. Already after leaving the post of head of the federation, Kharlampiev remained the generally recognized leader of this struggle and had unquestioned authority in this area.

Also, Anatoly Arkadevich was an associate professor of the Department of Physical Culture of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute. A memorial plaque to Kharlampiev (sculptor - Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts Salavat Aleksandrovich Shcherbakov) was installed on the building of the MPEI library building.

Anatoly Arkadyevich Kharlampiev (1906 - 1979) - Honored Master of Sports, Honored Coach of the Soviet Union, hereditary researcher of the national types of martial arts of the peoples of the USSR, who created a unique sambo wrestling system, made a significant contribution to the development of Russian martial arts.

Anatoly Kharlampiev was born on October 29, 1906 in Smolensk. His grandfather Georgy Yakovlevich - an outstanding gymnast and fist fighter - for decades collected, analyzed, systematized, classified information about various combat techniques, types of struggle and self-defense.

There is information about the fantastically incredible strength of Kharlampiev Sr.: they say he could break a three-kopeck coin with his fingers! Also, the Kharlampiev family tradition says that one day young Georgy Yakovlevich with bare hands, single-handedly stopped the three rushing horses, thereby preventing an imminent catastrophe. The saved woman, unable to resist the crushing power of the charm of the handsome strong man Kharlampiev, became his wife.

Anatoly Kharlampiev's father also excelled in the boxing field. After graduating with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts, he went to Paris to continue his studies. After some time, he lost his livelihood and, in order not to quit his studies, entered the professional boxing ring (fortunately, the hereditary power was passed on to him), where he became absolute champion France and Europe. After returning to Russia after some time, Arkady Georgievich Kharlampiev founded the Russian, and then Soviet school boxing.

As you can see, Anatoly Arkadyevich, who grew up and trained under the watchful eye of his father and grandfather, had practically no chance to stay away from sports in general and from martial arts in particular. So, six-year-old aerialist Anatoly Kharlampiev has already performed under the dome of the circus! And at the age of 16, he was already a mature fighter and a superbly developed physically very versatile athlete.

It was 1922 ... Young Kharlampiev taught physical education at KUTV (Red University of the Workers of the East) and OSMKS (the society of builders of the International Red Stadium), and also worked part-time in one Moscow theater - he taught artists to move correctly. At this time, fate brought Anatoly to Nikolai Ilyich Podvoisky, a famous revolutionary and military figure. Podvoisky "infected" the talented athlete with the idea of ​​developing a universal wrestling system.

KUTV gathered Far Eastern revolutionaries under its vaults. Among them were people from Mongolia, China and other countries, who own national martial arts, in which physical education teacher Kharlamov regularly practiced without leaving sports hall educational institution. "Caught" among the students and the Tatars, with whom Anatoly improved in the national Tatar belt wrestling. He also mastered the techniques french wrestling, English and French boxing, ran well, fenced, was a high-class acrobat and climber. He was personally acquainted with such outstanding wrestlers as Bull, Spool, Poddubny and others. Traditional for Kharlampiev were trips to the republics of Central Asia and the Caucasus, where he studied national types of martial arts.

He not only studied the methods of wrestling, but also fought himself - sometimes for many hours in a row. The fighter weighed 72 kg, but, being a great master, he often defeated opponents 2 times heavier than himself! The motives of these eastern travels of Anatoly Arkadyevich Kharlampiev inspired the creation in 1983 of the feature film - the action movie "Invincible" with Andrei Rostotsky in the title role. Main character ribbons - Andrey Khromov (the prototype of Anatoly Kharlampiev), is obsessed with the idea of ​​​​creating self-defense without weapons ... Getting into many difficult situations, the master gets out of them with honor.

… Being already a well-known fighter, Anatoly Kharlampiev mastered classical judo under the guidance of V. Oshchepkov, a friend of his father, who lived in Japan for a long time.

In 1938, Kharlampiev headed the Sambo Federation, which at that time acquired an official status. But the war began, Kharlampiev was among the first to go to the front as a volunteer, and the development of a new type of martial arts was suspended. The military service of Anatoly Arkadyevich was marked by many notable awards. Having taken part in the defeat of the Kwantung Army, Kharlampiev continued to learn wrestling directly from the defeated Japanese, in whose convoy there were a dozen tatami mats for judo.

After the war, Invincible continued active work on the development and dissemination of sambo in Soviet Russia. The indisputable authority of the master in this area is confirmed by the fact that the Japanese themselves awarded Kharlampiev the honorary 8th dan in judo in the 50s, which was and is akin to science fiction, since it is known how zealously the indigenous inhabitants of the Land of the Rising Sun treat their martial traditions and how carefully they protect them from "foreign" interventions.

Anatoly Arkadyevich Kharlampiev - the official founder of the creation of sambo wrestling, the first head of the "All-Union Section of Freestyle Wrestling". He wrote the book "Sambo Wrestling", which has successfully withstood many reprints and has been a desktop book for Soviet and Russian sambo wrestlers for decades.