Gennady Volnov Biography

Putin for a great contribution to the development of domestic sports, an outstanding basketball player, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Gennady Volnov was awarded the Order of Honor. This award during the celebrations on the occasion of the flight of Russian basketball was handed by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation S. as a two -meter veteran of sports, it was apparently living well?

In those years, it was something unusual, it was impossible to appear on the street. And where did I get such an increase - I have no idea. Childhood took place in the difficult military and after the war years. How people were starving and dying, saw with their own eyes. There I lived the whole war with my mother’s older sister. And in the year, when it was necessary to go to school, my mother, Vera Vasilievna, brought me back to Moscow.

My moral suffering began. The fact is that my father, an officer who graduated from the Military Academy, headed the division of militias in the formidable for the months of the year. At the cost of their life, they stopped the Nazis, saved the capital. The father then went missing. For us and my mother, this turned out to be a disaster. At school, I was not accepted into pioneers or in the Komsomol.

Mom did not pay a dime for the dead father. And only in years they recognized that he did not be captured, did not go missing, but died. Hence, probably, our constant poverty, malnutrition. As a child, I was dying twice, six times hurt with pneumonia. In the 3rd grade, I had a crop inflammation. Some medical professor advised my mother to take me to the village, in Moscow they would not save any medicines.

And in Konakovo, Aunt removed me with warm fresh milk. He got out of the year, and then, in Moscow, he hit the operating table. Mom found me without memory in the yard, in her arms conveyed from Gnezdnikovsky Lane, to the Children's Filatov Hospital. There, the doctors saved me for two and a half hours for two and a half hours. So there is no need to talk about a good life that contributes to the achievement of two -meter growth.

He grew up an ordinary boy, and by the 9th grade for a year he waved immediately by 20 centimeters, then more and more. With a height of 2 meters, they invited to join the basketball section, regardless of whether you can play or not. Every year, the sports day of schoolchildren was held. And in the year, a famous, now living coach Yuri Vartanovich Dokhalov came to our school and invited me to him.

They started to train. Sports uniform, games, friends. The team was taken from the large group, which was taken by the outstanding children's coach Vitaly Yaroshevsky. I often wondered why I had succeeded in basketball then. This was probably given to me by nature. I had perfect coordination of movements, excellent jumping, did something that many players of the USSR national team could not do.

By the prophecy of the coach, I had to get to this team next year. And starting from the year, I began to engage in basketball professionally, training hours a day. This is a huge load. As part of the Moscow team, we went to the All-Union Spartakiad of schoolchildren in Riga and took 1st place there. After such success, V. Yaroshevsky was made the head coach of the basketball players of the Moscow Spartak, who played in the highest division.

He introduced me, a summer boy, into the “team of engineers”, as Spartakovites then called - all players were with higher education, intellectually developed people, after leaving great sport, far advanced in their official field. Hence the choice on CSKA? A two-month quarantine passed in the military unit in Naro-Fominsk. There they could not even pick up a military uniform for a two -meter volunteer, but the need for the need forced to clean.

Almost “reached the pen”, and only after the coach’s call I was transferred to CSKA, where I stayed for 13 years and “rose” to the title of senior lieutenant. And the championship of the country continued, and all the responsibility fell on us, young. We tried and without eminent teammates won gold medals. After that, of course, the coaches of the USSR national team paid attention to us.

In the year I was included in its composition.

We first went to matches in the USA. Look at the American amateur basketball. They adopted a lot, including the training methodology. The Moscow army men were especially successful in this, the CSKA era in domestic basketball began with us. The height of the ring is 3 meters 5 centimeters, so it was necessary to bounce for a meter, which is not easy to do surrounded by rivals.

It was in the year, and today it is already a common occurrence. In the year in Tokyo, there was already a chance to beat them, but it did not work, they brought silver again. In Mexico City, in the year they turned out to be third - after the Americans and the Yugoslavs, bronze awards. You were part of it? He became an employee of the Department of Physical Training. Kondrashin invited me again to the team to participate in the Olympic Games.

I was 33 years old. Young players have already addressed me by the name of patronymic. But nothing, everything worked out, in the finals we kept all the time, won the Americans, won gold Olympic medals. So the big sport ended for me. Now they write a lot about his harmful effects on the athlete's health. Huge work, annual injuries.And every two years I had such injuries in which a normal person would be on the ballot for six months.

And two weeks later I went out again. Of course, doctors did this. His wards had no day, then the menisci popped up, the ankle joints touched, the legs of the basketball players switched to elephant sizes, etc. It was not like running - walking and even lying painful. But our doctors were such professionals that in a week they put into operation. If I do not work out with physical education, I do not run, the pains do not stop.

So for health, nothing good, they did not bring professional sports. All athletes are insured, they are more careful, because you will have to pay compensation. They are striving to cure them, at that time the sores simply “healed” us. And what expected a professional after the end of his career? When they performed, there was such a load that they did not have time to think about any study, acquisition of the specialty.

I was already 28 years old when I came to my senses and realized that I needed to get a higher education. He graduated from the Institute of Physical Culture. He studied for a lawyer. And when we met in the year at the Olympics in Moscow, I asked how the lawyer was working. And he replied: “I work in the Republican Sports Committee. The legal faculty finished at 36, by this age, professional lawyers are already reaching such heights that against their background I will remain starting to work there for 23 years and rose to the rank of colonel, became a professor, the head of the department.

How do you assess today's situation in the country? Now we are trying to do something in this area, but nothing more. We integrate into the world, and there are our own laws. Now in our professional teams of masters of the dominance of foreigners. It is very difficult for our young athletes without proper training. Where professional sport, there they do not think about physical training of citizens of the country.

Commerce and monetary interest are dominated by everyone. So, you need to change the entire current system or return to the former, Soviet - I do not see another way. We met, got married, a daughter was born, they also called her Svetlana. She graduated from the Institute of Communications. I have two granddaughters - Elsa and Tamara.