History
STUDENTS IMMEDIATELY CAUGHT A FANCY OF SAMBO
The example of Dynamo turned out to be catchy. The famous Ural Polytechnic Institute (currently Ural Federal University) quickly picked up the baton for the sport that was growing in popularity Since then, sambo has been spreading rapidly in a student community that is very receptive to everything new. In 1951, Vilen Chistov became the first volunteer coach in the Ural Polytechnic Institute (UPI), who was later succeeded by Viktor Avdeyev and Boris Rychkov.
In 1959, Boris Rychkov started to cultivate sambo at the Sverdlovsk Mining Institute (currently Ural State Mining University). Over its long history, sambo class at the Mining Institute has raised many worthy athletes. It was here where the champion of the RSFSR Valentin Afonin, champion of the RSFSR championships Ivan Berdov and more than 20 masters of sports were trained. Also, the future World Cup winner Sergey Danilik practiced his first sambo actions here at the Mining Institute under the coaching of Alexandr Yershov.
It did not take long for the first team victory of the Sverdlovsk students. In 1960, the student squad of our city under the leadership of coach Victor Avdeyev, became the champion of the RSFSR.
In 1963, sambo struck a chord with another high school. Sverdlovsk Polytechnic Institute and Sverdlovsk Mining Institute were joined by Sverdlovsk Law Institute (currently the Ural State Law University). Here the sambo class was headed by Igor Chemakin.
UPI: PARENKOV THE ACADEMICIAN AND PUNZAG THE MONGOL
In 1951, Vilen Chistov entered the institute and later organized there the first sambo class with the support of Andrey Vishnevsky, the head of PE Department. Then in 1956, Viktor Avdeyev and Boris Rychkov were invited to work at UPI. They extended student classes to “professional” trainings. However, the word "professional" was preferably excluded from the vocabulary of those years...
The UPI sambo class is known for the fact that in 1959 its student became the first champion of the RSFSR. That was Alexander Parenkov, an outstanding athlete and Master of Sports. Among the first sambo wrestlers from the UPI were also A. Zharikov, F. Sidorov, V. Shilonosov, V. Lisiyenko, V. Ivakin, Yu. Krokhalyov, V. Schreder, E. Pavlov and many others. Besides, Valentin Ivakin and Viktor Schreder became RSFSR champions. Yevgeny Pavlov won the Russian championship and a silver medal at the USSR championship as well.
Under the coaching of Gennady Samsonov, a representative of Mongolia Moonhijn Puntzag, who studied at the UPI, started sambo training in the section. Two years after graduation he became World Champion competing for his homeland.
The late Vilen Chistov, academician, Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor, and Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation, worked for a long time at the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His trainee, Alexander Parenkov, is also an academician, a Member of the International Energy Academy, a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of the Russian Federation, and a professor at Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys.
Vladimir Lisiyenko is a vice president and academician of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of the Russian Federation. He is an Honored Scientist and Engineer of the Russian Federation, professor, Doctor of Engineering, winner of the Russian Government Prize in Science and Engineering and continues to at the Ural Federal University.
Isn't there too many academicians among sambo wrestlers? - you might wonder. Meanwhile, there are also nine Doctors and almost 30 Candidates of Sciences among them. Well, this martial arts discipline is intelligent, it makes you think all the time and make decisions in a fraction of a second. One can't do without a clear head here.