A. A. Kharlampiev’s grandfather, Georgy Yakovlevich Kharlampiev, was an outstanding gymnast and fist fighter. For many years he collected, studied and classified various techniques of combat, wrestling and self-defense. Being extremely strong, he could tear a three-kopeck coin with his fingers. There is a legend that his future wife was once riding a troika and the horses bolted; disaster seemed inevitable. However, Georgy Yakovlevich was walking along the same street and was able to stop the trio - 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 performing 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 Soviet school boxing

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

Sambo

At that time, he worked at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East (KUTV) and the Society of Builders of the International Red Stadium (OSMKS) as a teacher physical culture and worked part-time in one of the Moscow theaters, teaching actors stage movement.

Professional revolutionaries from the countries of the Far East, including China and Mongolia, gathered in KUTV. Many of them were proficient in martial arts, and Anatoly Arkadyevich had the opportunity to regularly practice with them. He also fought with the Tatars (national belt wrestling). Even before that, he had perfectly mastered French wrestling, English and French boxing; fenced, ran, was a magnificent acrobat and a high-class climber. I personally knew such outstanding wrestlers as Poddubny, Bul, Spul and others.

For a number of years, Anatoly Arkadyevich annually traveled to the Central Asian and Caucasian republics, where national types of wrestling were still preserved. He studied them, systematized the techniques and methods of training, for which he fought in competitions himself, sometimes for many hours in a row. Weighing in at 72kg, he used his skill to sometimes defeat fighters twice his weight.

Based on these travels of A. A. Kharlampiev, the film “Invincible” was shot in 1983.

Already an outstanding master, Kharlampiev studied classical judo under the guidance of 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, but 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 was recognized with many awards. After finishing the war in the Far East, he learned wrestling from Japanese prisoners, who had ten judo tatami in their train.

After the war he continued his work on the dissemination and development of sambo. Even 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.

Anatoly Arkadyevich was also a teacher at the Department of Physical Culture at MPEI.

Awards

• Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1947)
• Honored Coach of the USSR

Awards of Anatoly Kharlampiev

Order of the Red Star

Medal "For the Defense of Moscow"

Medal "For Military Merit"

Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg"

Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1947)

Honored Coach of the USSR (1958)

Memory of Anatoly Kharlampiev

The first All-Union Sambo wrestling 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 “New Moscow” was named in honor of the founder of sambo A. Kharlampiev. Anatoly Kharlampieva Street is a new territory in the Filimonkovsky settlement, located between the Kievskoye and Kaluzhskoye highways. The length of the street is 1 kilometer. It is planned to build in the area of ​​this street sports complex with halls for sambo training.

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 on the development of sambo in Russia and the world

On the building of the library building of MPEI there is a memorial plaque to Kharlampiev (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 Sports”, 1949. - 182 p.
Kharlampiev A. A. SAMBO wrestling tactics. - M.: “Physical Education and Sports”, 1958.
Kharlampiev A. A. SAMBO wrestling. - M.: “Physical Culture and Sports”, 1964. - 388 p.

Family of Anatoly Kharlampiev

Grandfather - Georgy Yakovlevich Kharlampiev, was a gymnast and fist fighter. For many years I collected, studied and classified various techniques hand-to-hand combat, struggle and self-defense.

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

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 Georgiy Yakovlevich, an outstanding gymnast and fist fighter, and then his father Arkady Georgievich, a French and European boxing champion, considered the founder of the Russian school of boxing. Already at the age of six he performed in a trapeze act under the circus big top, and at the age of sixteen he was a versatile athlete and a well-trained wrestler and boxer. While still at school I studied strength athletics, gymnastics, mountaineering. He was also interested in art, studied painting, sculpture, and studied at a music college.

Later, Kharlampiev studied Kodokan Judo under the guidance of Vasily Sergeevich Oshchepkov, who is also considered one of the founders of Sambo wrestling, along with Viktor Afanasyevich Spiridonov. But his particular interest was 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 technical 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 from the Central Asian and Caucasian republics, many of whom were proficient in national martial arts. Thus, while teaching students, I studied myself. Organizing and participating in fights with his students, he adopted from them unique hand-to-hand combat techniques, characteristic only of certain ethnic groups.

In addition to his teaching practice, Anatoly Arkadyevich regularly, at least once a year, went on research expeditions to the Soviet republics, where he studied new styles of martial arts and improved his skills. Since 1935, he conducted training in freestyle juu-do at the Moscow Sports Palace "Wings of the Soviets". In 1936 he graduated from the Russian State University of Physical Culture, 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: a sports section - the basis of the style and a combat section, which included additional techniques intended for law enforcement officers. 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 master’s life 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 Koenigsberg”. After the Victory, he transferred to the troops that managed to defeat the Kwantung Japanese Army. Even during the war, he continued to study, showing interest in Japanese prisoners, learning from them and arranging fights with them. Passion for martial arts helped to 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 USSR championships have continued. In the same year, on his initiative, the second all-Union gathering of trainers was held. It was decided there the new kind wrestling in clothes, call Sambo wrestling, and also create the Sambo Wrestling Federation.

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

Since 1953, Anatoly Arkadyevich was an associate professor at the Department of Physical Education at the Moscow Energy Institute. Since that time, sambo wrestling began to spread in non-physical education and non-military universities in 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 light heavyweight championships 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 (October 29, 1906, Smolensk - April 16, 1979) - researcher of national types of wrestling of the peoples of the USSR, founder of sambo wrestling.

A. A. Kharlampiev’s grandfather, Georgy Yakovlevich Kharlampiev, was an outstanding gymnast and fist fighter. For many years he collected, studied and classified various techniques of combat, wrestling and self-defense. Being extremely strong, he could tear a three-kopeck coin with his fingers. There is a legend that his future wife was once riding a troika and the horses bolted; disaster seemed inevitable. However, Georgy Yakovlevich was walking along the same street and was able to stop the trio - 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, but in order to continue his studies he began performing in the professional European ring, and soon 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 both his grandfather and father, performed in aerial gymnastics under the circus dome. At the age of sixteen he was already a mature fighter and a very versatile athlete. Then, in 1922, the famous military figure Nikolai Ilyich Podvoisky blessed [source?] Anatoly Arkadyevich to develop universal wrestling.

At that time, he worked at the Red University of the Workers of the East (KUTV) and the Society of Builders of the International Red Stadium (OSMKS) as a teacher of physical education; He also worked part-time in one of the Moscow theaters, teaching movement to artists.

Professional revolutionaries from the countries of the Far East, including China and Mongolia, gathered at KUTV. Many of them were proficient in martial arts, and Anatoly Arkadyevich had the opportunity to regularly practice with them. He also fought with the Tatars (national belt wrestling). Even before that, he had perfectly mastered French wrestling, English and French boxing; fenced, ran, was a magnificent acrobat. I personally knew such outstanding wrestlers as Poddubny, Bul, Spul and others. He was a high-class climber.

For a number of years, Anatoly Arkadyevich annually traveled to the Central Asian and Caucasian republics, where national types of wrestling were still preserved. He studied them, systematized the techniques and methods of training, for which he fought in competitions himself, sometimes for many hours in a row. Weighing in at 72kg, he used his skill to sometimes defeat fighters twice his weight.

Who it Anatoly Kharlampiev

Based on these travels of A. A. Kharlampiev, the film “Invincible” was shot in the early 1980s.

Already an outstanding master, Kharlampiev studied classical Judo under the guidance of Arkady Georgievich’s friend, Vasily Sergeevich Oshchepkov, who lived in Japan for a long time and graduated from the Kodokan.

In 1938, Sambo wrestling gained official status, and Kharlampiev headed the Sambo Federation, but 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 was recognized with many awards. Having finished the war in the troops that defeated the Kwantung Army, he learned wrestling from the Japanese themselves, who had ten judo tatami in their train.

After the war he continued his work on the dissemination and development of sambo. Even 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.

In the 1950s The Japanese awarded Kharlampiev an honorary eighth dan in judo, which was considered simply impossible for a non-Japanese in those days.

In the USSR, Kharlampiev had the titles of Honored Master of Sports and Honored Trainer of the USSR.

Anatoly Kharlampiev managed to create a combat system capable of turning a simple Soviet citizen into a superhero. Having absorbed all the best, sambo became our answer to judo, karate and boxing. An answer that is clear without any words.

Kharlampiev family

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

The book by Eduard Khrutsky “This Furious Russian” tells that in the Kharlampiev family great importance was given physical exercise, Georgy Kharlampiev raised his son Arkady in strict discipline and conducted athletic training with him.

The Kharlampievs took part in fist fights on the banks 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 gymnast Georgy Kharlampiev was special, he tore a three-kopeck coin with his fingers, and once stopped a running horse with his hands.
George's son, Arkady, was an artist, mountain climber and the first professional Russian boxer. In order to earn money to feed 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 Gretje and Gradopolov, calling it “the noble art of self-defense.”

Worthy son and grandson

Anatoly Kharlampiev was thus a hereditary fighter. His strongman grandfather and boxer father 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 well-rounded athlete; while still studying at school, he was involved in weightlifting, gymnastics, wrestling, boxing, and mountaineering.

However, Anatoly Kharlampiev was not just a strongman and an athlete, but also took a keen interest in art, studied painting, sculpture, and studied at a music college. However, his true passion still remains martial arts. After school, Anatoly Kharlampiev completed courses sports instructors and began working at the Society of Builders of the International Red Stadium and the Red University of the Workers of the East as a physical education teacher. At the same time, Kharlampiev met Nikolai Podvoisky, chairman of the Sportintern, who gave him the idea of ​​​​creating universal freestyle wrestling. Apparently, that’s when Kharlampiev “got 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 his father’s friend Vasily Oshchepkov. He was a real “locomotive” of 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 second dan in judo.

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

However, Oshchepkov not only promoted judo, but also went further: he introduced Russian names for 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 judo arsenal 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).

Taking on skills

Even during his work at the Red University of the Workers of the East, Kharlampiev had the opportunity to study various martial arts techniques, since 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, and participated in fights himself, never tired of mastering new techniques.

The film “Invincible” was made about this period of his life in 1983, 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 techniques from different types of wrestling.
Immediately after the start of the Great Patriotic War, Kharlampiev volunteered for the front. Having finished the war in the troops that defeated the Kwantung Army, he also learned wrestling from Japanese prisoners, in whose train there were a dozen tatami. Having started 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, incorporating into its arsenal not only techniques from national types of wrestling (kuresha, chidaoba and others), but also techniques from army combat systems.

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

When they met Soviet sambo wrestlers, 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 activity (Kharlamipiev taught at MPEI alone 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 happen to Anatoly Kharlampiev, but this “outcome” showed how universal sambo is the system.

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

Kharlampiev was devoted to sambo, investing all of himself in its development. Even when sambo became a popular sport (it was even included in the GTO-2 standards) and there was not enough space in the halls, Kharlampiev did not refuse anyone. The first training session 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; he lived in a communal apartment for a long time. One room was for him a bedroom, an office, and a kitchen.
The “father of sambo” died in 1979, leaving behind a school, masters and a new efficient look martial arts.

Anatoly Arkadyevich Kharlampiev(October 29, 1906, Smolensk, Russia - April 16, 1979, Moscow, USSR) - researcher of martial arts and national types of wrestling of the peoples of the USSR, one of the founders of sambo wrestling, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, Honored Trainer of the USSR.

Biography

A. A. Kharlampiev’s grandfather, Georgy Yakovlevich Kharlampiev, was a gymnast and fist fighter. For many years he collected, studied and classified various techniques of hand-to-hand combat, wrestling and self-defense. There are legends about his strength: he tore three-kopeck coins with his fingers; stopped a troika of horses that had run away (in the carriage of which was his future wife), etc.

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

From early childhood, Anatoly Arkadyevich was trained by his grandfather and father. Already at the age of 6, he performed in a trapeze act under the circus dome. At sixteen, he was a fairly versatile athlete and a well-trained wrestler and boxer.

Creation of Sambo wrestling

A. A. Kharlampiev devoted his life to the creation and development of a new applied sport - sambo wrestling. From the beginning of the 1920s, he began to collect and systematize folk games containing wrestling techniques; since 1934 - describe and classify sports and fighting techniques. In 1936 he graduated from the State Central Order of Lenin Institute of Physical Culture (department of judo Vasily Sergeevich Oshchepkov). Since 1935, Anatoly Arkadyevich conducted judo training at the Moscow Sports Palace “Wings of the Soviets”. Participant of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). From 1945 to 1952 he worked as a senior coach of the Dynamo Central Council. Since 1953 - Associate Professor at the Department of Physical Education at Moscow Power Engineering Institute.

His predecessors in creating a new national type of wrestling in clothes (including the most effective means from other types of wrestling) were Viktor Afanasyevich Spiridonov and Vasily Sergeevich Oshchepkov (whose student was Anatoly Arkadyevich). And each of his predecessors, and Anatoly Arkadyevich, saw the subject of creation differently.

A. A. Kharlampiev created a sambo system that included a sports subsystem (which is the foundation) and a combat subsystem (which was considered as a target applied superstructure). The sports subsystem eventually began to be called sambo wrestling (or simply sambo), and the combat subsystem was called combat sambo. Anatoly Arkadyevich paid attention to the foundation of the SAMBO system Special attention, did everything possible to develop sambo wrestling as a mass sport. He was sure that only those who had mastered it well wrestling sambo can be successful in combat sambo.

While creating his sambo system, A. A. Kharlampiev carefully studied judo and mastered it in practice. In judo, he saw the foundation of a new type of wrestling in clothes, enriched with the most effective techniques of other types of wrestling. He mastered judo under the guidance of Vasily Sergeevich Oshchepkov, who during his many years in Japan trained at the Kodokan judo school.

During his years of working as a teacher of physical education at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East (KUTV) and the Society of Builders of the International Red Stadium (OSMKS), A. A. Kharlampiev continued his research various types struggle.

KUTV brought together many professional revolutionaries from Asian countries (China, Mongolia, etc.). Some of them had a good command of martial arts techniques, and Anatoly Arkadyevich did not miss any opportunity to master new fighting techniques in practice (in a fight or demonstration). His fighting arsenal also included equipment english boxing, and fencing techniques. The fact that he was a good acrobat and climber also contributed to his mastery of new techniques.