Anatoly Kharlampiyev

Martial Artist, Inventor

1906 – 1979

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Who was Anatoly Kharlampiyev?

Anatoly Arkadyevich Kharlampiyev was the world famous researcher of various kinds national wrestling and martial arts, Merited Master of Sports of the USSR, Honored Coach of the USSR. He was one of the founders of Sambo, a martial art developed in the Soviet Union. Kharlampiyev worked as a physical education trainer at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East, and also was dedicated student of boxing, having also studied fencing, acrobatics, and mountaineering. In 1938, Kharlampiyev presented Sambo to the USSR All-Union Sports Committee, which recognized the martial art as an official sport.

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Born
Oct 29, 1906
Smolensk
Also known as
  • Харлампиев, Анатолий Аркадьевич
Nationality
  • Russia
Profession
Lived in
  • Smolensk
Died
Apr 16, 1979
Moscow

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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