Iron Man Yuri Vlasov: biography as a film. Yuri Vlasov - the bespectacled man who inspired Schwarzenegger Yuri Vlasov, a Soviet weightlifter

Parents

His father, Pyotr Parfenovich Vlasov (1905-1953), a graduate of the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies named after N. N. Narimanov, worked as a TASS correspondent in China from 1938 to 1940, and from 1942 to 1945 as a liaison officer for the Comintern under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee. In 1946, Pyotr Parfenovich went to work at the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1948 to 1951 he served as Consul General of the USSR in Shanghai, and since 1952 as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to Burma.

Mother - Maria Danilovna, originally from Kuban, worked as the head of a library. From an early age, Maria Danilovna instilled in her sons, Yuri and Boris, a love of reading books. She passed away in 1987.

Suvorov Military School

In 1946, Yuri Vlasov entered the Saratov Suvorov Military School, which he graduated with honors in 1953. Dreaming of being like his father, he wants to become a diplomat.

While studying at the school, Yuri repeatedly achieved success in the sports field. Completing the second men's category in athletics, he easily skied, skated, shot put and threw a grenade. At the wrestling championship held in Saratov, he takes first place.

By the age of fifteen, Yuri weighs about 90 kg, begins to be interested in strength sports, but for now mostly from books. Reads “The Path to Strength and Health” by the legendary strength athlete and wrestler Georg Hackenschmidt.

Air Force Engineering Academy

After Suvorov Military School, Yuri Vlasov entered the Moscow Air Force Engineering Academy named after N. E. Zhukovsky. After graduating from it, in 1959 he received a honors diploma and a military specialty - aviation radio communications engineer.

It was while studying at the academy that Yuri became involved in weightlifting, which, by and large, he had not been interested in before. But his first steps and first successes in his new field were phenomenal - already in 1957, training under the guidance of his first coach Evgeniy Nikolaevich Shapovalov, Yuri fulfilled the standard of a master of sports in weightlifting. His first all-Union record: clean and jerk - 185 kg, snatch - 144.5 kg. The Master of Sports badge is presented to Yuri Vlasov by the legendary Marshal Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny himself. In the same year, Vlasov set a number of records of the all-Union rank, which ensured his place in the list of the best weightlifters of the USSR.

After graduating from the academy, Yuri begins to train under the auspices of CSKA, Suren Petrosovich Bagdasarov becomes his coach, and then his friend. As a cadet, Yuri devotes all the time remaining after classes at the academy to training, sometimes denying himself his favorite pastime - reading books.

1957 for Yuri also became a year of testing - at a competition in Lvov, while trying to lift a record weight, he injured his leg and spine. In the same year, Yuri Vlasov met his future wife, art student Natalya Modorova, who by chance made sketches in the hall where Yuri trained. The support of his wife and true friends, Bagdasarov and Shapovalov, helps Yuri get back into action and win all imaginable and inconceivable records.

In 1959, he was awarded the honorary title of Honored Master of Sports of the USSR. In the same year, at the World and European Championships, held in Warsaw, an already certified military engineer pushes a barbell weighing 197.5 kg and in the triathlon total shows the coveted 500 kg, which demonstrates to the sports community the intention to continue to destroy the records of the American weightlifting team hitherto , as it seemed to many, unattainable.

1960 Olympics in Rome

The 1960 Olympics, held in the Italian capital, were decisive in the fate of Yuri Vlasov. On August 25, Vlasov, easily holding the flag of our country with one hand, walked through the Olympic stadium along with the USSR team. He had to fight with American weightlifters Norbert Shemanski and Jim Bradford, his main heavyweight competitors. Vlasov emerged from the battle of the titans as an absolute winner, even crushing the results of another American, Paul Anderson, which dominated weightlifting at that time and, according to the American media, would be unattainable for at least another hundred years.

At the Olympics in Rome, Vlasov refuted all the existing canons of weightlifting and for the first time demonstrated to the public and the world community that a champion can be a comprehensively developed person, an individual. A highly educated intellectual appeared before the public, with the ability to easily talk with journalists about world literature and art. Yuri Vlasov knew French and Chinese. He won the attention and respect of the journalistic community, which not many have achieved.

Yuri Petrovich Vlasov was recognized as the best athlete of the Rome Olympics and was awarded the title “The Strongest Man on the Planet.” Thanks to Vlasov’s victory, weightlifting became a popular sport on all continents and all over the world for many decades.

In Rome on September 10, 1960, Vlasov competed in the super heavyweight division, bench pressed 180 kg, lifted 155 kg, and in the third attempt pushed a record 202.5 kg. In the sum of three movements, he gains 537.5 kg - an unprecedented figure at that time, breaking the monopoly of Paul Anderson (Anderson’s official record is 512 kg and 533 kg, shown at domestic competitions in Texas, both in 1956). Yuri Vlasov overtook Olympic silver medalist Jim Bradford by as much as 25 kg, leaving him far behind.

At the closing ceremony of the XVII Olympic Games, Yuri Vlasov again triumphantly carries the banner of the Soviet team. The 1960 Olympics deservedly bears the name of the legendary Yuri Vlasov.

1964 Olympics in Tokyo

In 1964 in Tokyo, the Olympic weightlifting competitions aroused increased interest. Yuri Vlasov remained the undisputed leader of our team. His main opponent in Tokyo was his USSR national team colleague Leonid Zhabotinsky.

The main clash of heavyweights (Vlasov weighed 136.4 kg, Zhabotinsky - 154.4 kg) took place on October 18. In the first competitive movement, the bench press, Vlasov is 10 kg ahead of Zhabotinsky, setting a new world record of 197.5 kg. In the snatch, Yuri takes 162 kg against Leonid’s 167.5 kg, in the fourth attempt, which is no longer included in the official count, he breaks the world record of 172.5 kg. But the gap in total is reduced to 5 kg, Vlasov is still in the lead.

The main intrigue of the Tokyo Olympics took place in the third exercise, the clean and jerk. According to the recollections of both its participants, it was a strategic game in which Jabotinsky was destined to win - in the third attempt he pushes 217.5 kg, overtaking Vlasov (210 kg) and becoming the Tokyo Olympic champion. Yuri Vlasov is an Olympic silver medalist, a true idol of millions.

Latest record

Being devastated by the constant struggle on the platform and in the hall, after the Tokyo competition, Yuri Petrovich Vlasov stops professional training, completely devoting himself to his second favorite activity - literature. But having resumed training in 1966, in 1967, at the Moscow championship, Yuri set the last world record in the bench press - 199 kg, for which he received 850 rubles. In 1968, Vlasov officially retired from big sport, retiring from military service, leaving 41 USSR records, 31 world records, 4 world championships and 6 European championships conquered.

In 1960, Vlasov was awarded the Order of Lenin, and in 1964 he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. Yuri Petrovich Vlasov was recognized as the best athlete of the country, the year and the entire twentieth century.

Writer

Since 1959, Vlasov has been publishing essays and stories; in 1961, he won the second prize in the competition for the best sports story (the first prize was not awarded). In 1962, he came to the European Championship not only as an athlete, but also as a special correspondent for the Izvestia newspaper. “Overcome Yourself” is the first collection of stories by Yuri Vlasov, published in 1964, even before the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

In 1973, after seven years of work, the book “Special Region of China. 1942-45” was published, published under the pseudonym Vladimirov, in memory of his father. In 1984, Yuri Vlasov’s book “Fairness of Force,” well-known in sports and other circles, appeared, which was republished in 1989 and 1995. In 2005, "Red Jacks" was released.

In the literary field, Yuri Vlasov proved himself as a historian and publicist, a person who is not indifferent to the future of our country, for which in Soviet times he wrote “on the table” for a long time.

Social and political figure

In 1985, Yuri Petrovich Vlasov headed the USSR Weightlifting Federation. From 1987 to 1988 - the USSR Athletic Gymnastics Federation (bodybuilding), after its long-awaited recognition at the state level.

In the difficult years of 1993-95, Yuri Vlasov was elected to the State Duma. He works in the Security Committee, until the summer of 1994 he was a member of the Russian Way deputy group, and in February 1994 he nominated himself for the post of Chairman of the State Duma. Later in 1996, he ran for the presidency of the Russian Federation, but dropped out of the election race in the first round, officially gaining 0.2% of the vote. During the same period, Vlasov’s opponents initiated a “Special Issue” with a fictitious obituary, reporting his death. Afterwards, Yuri Petrovich Vlasov decides to leave big politics.

Today

Yuri Petrovich Vlasov was elected President of the Independent Pushkin Academy.

In 2005 he celebrated his 70th anniversary. In one of his interviews, Yuri Petrovich said that at the turn of his seventh decade he copes with a weight of 185 kg. Trains two to three times a week.

Previously, Yuri Petrovich had undergone several operations on his spine, but thanks to his fortitude he was able to return to sports again.

On December 5, 2010, on the day of Yuri Petrovich Vlasov’s 75th birthday, the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev congratulated him, thanking him for “a bright mark in the history of weightlifting”, for “victories at the Olympics and international championships”, for “dozens of world records” and for serving “the development of elite sports in our country.”

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Yuri Petrovich Vlasov(born December 5, 1935, Makeevka) - Soviet weightlifter, Russian writer, Russian politician.

Since 1959 he has been involved in literary activities, and from the mid-1980s to 1996 - in social and political activities. He headed the USSR Weightlifting and Athletic Gymnastics Federation. People's Deputy of the USSR (1989-1991), Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation (1993-1995).

Biography

Sports career

In the spring of 1957, Vlasov first became the USSR record holder in the snatch (144.5 kg) and clean and jerk (183.0 kg); less than a month later, Alexey Medvedev regained his records. Vlasov achieved his first success at the USSR championships in 1958, taking 3rd place (470 kg). And in 1959 he took the lead in the heavyweight division and did not lose in competitions until the 1964 Olympic Games.

Triumphant years 1959-1963

At the Olympic Games in Rome, September 10, 1960, Vlasov bench pressed 180 kg (the same as James Bradford from the USA, who eventually became the silver medalist), snatched 155 kg (5 kg ahead of his closest pursuers) and clean and jerked 202.5 kg , which gave a total of 537.5 kg (Bradford was 20 kg behind in the clean and jerk, and 25 kg in total).

Vlasov started the push when all the competitors had already finished the competition. First attempt - 185 kg, Olympic gold and world record in triathlon - 520 kg (the former belonged to American Paul Anderson since 1955. Second attempt - 195 kg - and the world record in triathlon becomes 530 kg. Third attempt - 202.5 kg (world record); the final result in triathlon - 537.5 kg - became not only a world record, but also exceeded Anderson's phenomenal achievements - official (512.5 kg) and unofficial (533 kg) - shown in 1956.

In 1959-1963, Vlasov's main rivals on the international stage were US athletes, primarily Norbert Shemanski. Shemanski, despite his age - he was born in 1924 - twice (1961, 1962) took the world records in the snatch from Vlasov and twice (1962, 1963) became second at the world championships. The rivalry was especially intense at the 1962 World Championships, when Shemanski lost by only 2.5 kg, winning the bench press and snatch.

1964 Games

Vlasov came to the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo as a favorite. His main rival was teammate Leonid Zhabotinsky, who in March set world records in the snatch, clean and jerk and total (by the beginning of the Games, Vlasov had returned the records). Zhabotinsky had a larger body weight (154.4 kg versus 136.4 kg), so in the event of equal results, Vlasov received an advantage.

Vlasov won the bench press with a world record of 197.5 kg, Zhabotinsky was 10 kg behind. In the snatch, Vlasov took 162.5 kg only on the third attempt, allowing Zhabotinsky to reduce the gap to 5 kg - he took 167.5 kg (the third attempt at 172.5 kg was unsuccessful). Unexpectedly, Vlasov went for a fourth, additional (not included in the triathlon) approach, in which he set a world record - 172.5 kg.

In the first attempt of the clean and jerk, Jabotinsky lifted 200 kg. “With all my appearance I demonstrated that I was giving up the fight for gold, and even lowered my starting weight. Vlasov, feeling like the master of the platform, rushed to conquer records and... cut himself off.” - this is how Jabotinsky later commented on the progress of the struggle. Vlasov pushed 205 kg, and then 210 kg. After this, the weight of the bar was set higher than the world record - 217.5 kg. Jabotinsky's second attempt was unsuccessful (later many believed that Jabotinsky did not lift the weight on purpose), Vlasov's third attempt was also unsuccessful, and Jabotinsky in his third attempt pushed the barbell and became an Olympic champion.

As one of the Japanese newspapers wrote, “the two strongest men in Russia - Nikita Khrushchev and Yuri Vlasov - fell almost on the same day” (the heavyweight competition took place on October 18, 4 days after Khrushchev’s removal).

Leaving big sport

As Vlasov himself recalled, immediately after the Games in Tokyo he abandoned active training. However, due to financial problems, he resumed training in the fall of 1966. On April 15, 1967, at the Moscow Championship, Vlasov set his last world record (for which he received 850 rubles), and in 1968 he officially said goodbye to big-time sports.

Literary activity

Since 1959, Vlasov has been publishing essays and stories, and two years later he became the winner of the second prize in the competition for the best sports story in 1961 (organized by the editorial office of the newspaper "Soviet Sport" and the Moscow branch of the Writers' Union; the first prize was not awarded). Vlasov went to the 1962 World Championships not only as an athlete, but also as a special correspondent for the Izvestia newspaper.

The first book, a collection of short stories “Overcome Yourself,” was published in 1964 (even before the defeat at the Tokyo Games).

In 1968, after leaving big sport and being discharged from the army, Vlasov became a professional writer. In subsequent years, the story “White Moment” (1972) and the novel “Salty Joys” (1976) were published.

Then followed a long break, during which Yuri Vlasov wrote mainly “on the table.” In 1984, the book “Justice of Force” was published, and in 1989 its new, revised edition was published (the book indicates the years of writing: 1978-1979 and 1987-1989). An autobiography in form, the book contains numerous excursions into the history of weightlifting, reflections on sports - and more.

Most of Vlasov's subsequent books are historical and journalistic, both of these genres are closely intertwined.

The most monumental work in Vlasov’s work is the three-volume “Fiery Cross”, the genre of which is defined by the author as “historical confession”. Vlasov said that the idea to write a novel about the revolution came to him in 1959, and then he began collecting materials. Since 1978, Vlasov has undergone several spinal surgeries; after the operation in 1983, when he was on the verge of life and death, he began to create a complete text. In 1991-1992, a 2-volume edition was published, which did not include about a third of the written material; a 3-volume edition was published in 1993. In this trilogy, Vlasov draws a conclusion about the identity between Leninism and fascism and contrasts Bolshevism with Christian morality.

In the 1990s, Vlasov wrote many journalistic articles, which were then published in separate collections.

Social activities in sports

• 1985-1987 - President of the USSR Weightlifting Federation.

• 1987-1988 - President of the USSR Athletic Gymnastics Federation.

Political activity

• 1989-1991 - People's Deputy of the USSR. He was elected in repeat elections in the district. He was a member of the Interregional Deputy Group. At the First Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR on May 31, 1989, he made a speech in which he sharply criticized the CPSU and the KGB. In the fall of 1989, he left the CPSU.

On March 30, 1992, he published an article “Twilight of Democracy” in the Kuranty newspaper, in which he spoke out against the reforms being carried out in Russia and for the resignation of state leaders.

Worked on the Safety Committee. He was a member of the deputy group “Russian Way” (left in June 1994). In February 1994 he ran for the post of Chairman of the State Duma.

• In the 1995 State Duma elections, having gained about 12% of the votes, he lost to Konstantin Borovoy; was also included in the list of the “Power to the People” bloc, which did not cross the 5% mark.

Sports achivments

Official competitions

World records

Until 1962, there was a clause in the rules according to which, when established in one competition in one exercise
several world records, only the best result was counted as an official record.

Anthropometric data during performances

Books

• Overcome yourself. - M.: “Young Guard”, 1964. - 270 p.
• White moment: Stories, stories - M.: “Soviet Russia”, 1972. - 222 p.
• Vladimirov P. P. Special region of China. 1942-1945. - M.: News Agency, 1973. - 656 p. - 150,000 copies.

• Salty joys. - M.: “Soviet Russia”, 1976. - 352 p.
• Justice of power. - M.: “Young Guard”, 1984. - 304 p.
• Formula of courage. - M.: “Knowledge”, 1987. - 94 p.
• Justice of power. - L.: Lenizdat, 1989. - 608 p. - ISBN 5-289-00374-6

• Geometry of feelings. - K.: “Leningrad Committee of Writers”, 1991. - 256 p. - ISBN 5-85490-019-X
• Cold. - 1992.
• Fiery cross. - M.: “Progress”, “Culture”, 1993. - ISBN 5-01-003925-7 - in three books:
  • Book 1. “Geneva” account. - 512 s. - ISBN 5-01-003926-5
  • Book 2. The death of the admiral. - 656 s. - ISBN 5-01-003927-3
  • Book 3. Exes. - 560 s. - ISBN 5-01-003928-1

• Believe!
• Who rules the show: Collection of speeches 1988-1992. - M.: “Press”, 1993. - 304 p. - ISBN 5-7037-0264-X
• Rus' without a leader. - Voronezh: Voronezh regional organization of the Union of Writers of Russia, 1995. - 528 p. - ISBN 5-86742-027-2
• We are and we will be. - Voronezh: Publishing house of the Voronezh regional printing house, 1996. - 718 p. - ISBN 5-87456-058-0
• Russian Truth. - 1999.
• Vremenshchiki (Vremenshchiki: The Fate of National Russia: Its Friends and Enemies) - M.: “Detective Press”, 1999. - 464 p. - ISBN 5-89935-002-4

• Red Jacks. - M.: “Algorithm”, 2005. - 360 p. - (The Great Athlete of Russia) - ISBN 5-9265-0233-0
• 93rd. The year of great defeat. - M.: “Algorithm”, 2006. - 288 p. - (The Old Guard) - ISBN 5-9265-0246-2
• Great redistribution. - M.: “DPK Press”, 2011. - in two volumes:
  • Volume 1 - 572 pp. - ISBN 978-5-91976-010-8;
  • Volume 2 - 432 pp. - ISBN 978-5-91976-011-5.

Awards

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Notes

Literature, links

• Oleg Vostryakov. // "Kievskie Vedomosti". - December 7, 2005

Sports achivments

• M. L. Pharmacist.. - M.: “Physical Education and Sports”, 1983. - 416 p.

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Alexandra (Alexis) Obolenskaya Vasily and Anna Seryogin

Probably, you had to be truly a FRIEND in order to find the strength to make such a choice and go of your own free will to where you were going, as you go only to your own death. And this “death”, unfortunately, was then called Siberia...
I have always been very sad and painful for our beautiful Siberia, so proud, but so mercilessly trampled by the Bolshevik boots! ... And no words can tell how much suffering, pain, lives and tears this proud, but tormented land has absorbed... Is it because it was once the heart of our ancestral home that the “far-sighted revolutionaries” decided to denigrate and destroy this land, choosing it for their own devilish purposes?... After all, for many people, even many years later, Siberia still remained a “cursed” land, where someone’s father, someone’s brother, someone’s died. then a son... or maybe even someone's entire family.
My grandmother, whom I, to my great chagrin, never knew, was pregnant with my father at that time and had a very difficult time with the journey. But, of course, there was no need to wait for help from anywhere... So the young Princess Elena, instead of the quiet rustling of books in the family library or the usual sounds of the piano when she played her favorite works, this time she listened only to the ominous sound of wheels, which seemed to menacingly They were counting down the remaining hours of her life, so fragile and which had become a real nightmare... She sat on some bags by the dirty carriage window and incessantly looked at the last pathetic traces of the “civilization” that was so familiar and familiar to her, going further and further away...
Grandfather's sister, Alexandra, with the help of friends, managed to escape at one of the stops. By general agreement, she was supposed to get (if she was lucky) to France, where her entire family was currently living. True, none of those present had any idea how she could do this, but since this was their only, albeit small, but certainly last hope, giving it up was too great a luxury for their completely hopeless situation. Alexandra’s husband, Dmitry, was also in France at that moment, with the help of whom they hoped, from there, to try to help her grandfather’s family get out of the nightmare into which life had so mercilessly thrown them, at the vile hands of brutal people...
Upon arrival in Kurgan, they were placed in a cold basement, without explaining anything and without answering any questions. Two days later, some people came for my grandfather and said that they allegedly came to “escort” him to another “destination”... They took him away like a criminal, without allowing him to take any things with him, and without deigning to explain, where and for how long he is being taken. No one ever saw grandfather again. After some time, an unknown military man brought his grandfather’s personal belongings to the grandmother in a dirty coal sack... without explaining anything and leaving no hope of seeing him alive. At this point, any information about my grandfather’s fate ceased, as if he had disappeared from the face of the earth without any traces or evidence...
The tormented, tormented heart of poor Princess Elena did not want to come to terms with such a terrible loss, and she literally bombarded the local staff officer with requests to clarify the circumstances of the death of her beloved Nicholas. But the “red” officers were blind and deaf to the requests of a lonely woman, as they called her, “of the nobles,” who was for them just one of thousands and thousands of nameless “license” units that meant nothing in their cold and cruel world ...It was a real inferno, from which there was no way out back into that familiar and kind world in which her home, her friends, and everything that she had been accustomed to from an early age remained, and that she loved so strongly and sincerely... And there was no one who could help or at least give the slightest hope of survival.
The Seryogins tried to maintain presence of mind for the three of them, and tried by any means to lift the mood of Princess Elena, but she went deeper and deeper into an almost complete stupor, and sometimes sat all day long in an indifferently frozen state, almost not reacting to her friends’ attempts to save her heart. and the mind from final depression. There were only two things that briefly brought her back to the real world - if someone started talking about her unborn child or if any, even the slightest, new details came about the supposed death of her beloved Nikolai. She desperately wanted to know (while she was still alive) what really happened, and where her husband was, or at least where his body was buried (or dumped).
Unfortunately, there is almost no information left about the life of these two courageous and bright people, Elena and Nicholas de Rohan-Hesse-Obolensky, but even those few lines from Elena’s two remaining letters to her daughter-in-law, Alexandra, which were somehow preserved in Alexandra's family archives in France show how deeply and tenderly the princess loved her missing husband. Only a few handwritten sheets have survived, some of the lines of which, unfortunately, cannot be deciphered at all. But even what was successful screams with deep pain about a great human misfortune, which, without experiencing, is not easy to understand and impossible to accept.

April 12, 1927. From a letter from Princess Elena to Alexandra (Alix) Obolenskaya:
“I’m very tired today. I returned from Sinyachikha completely broken. The carriages are filled with people, it would be a shame to even carry livestock in them…………………………….. We stopped in the forest - there was such a delicious smell of mushrooms and strawberries... It’s hard to believe that it was there that these unfortunates were killed! Poor Ellochka (meaning Grand Duchess Elizaveta Fedorovna, who was related to my grandfather on the Hessian side) was killed nearby, in this terrible Staroselim mine... what a horror! My soul cannot accept this. Do you remember we said: “may the earth rest in peace”?.. Great God, how can such a land rest in peace?!..
Oh Alix, my dear Alix! How can one get used to such horror? ...................... ..................... I'm so tired of begging and humiliating myself... Everything will be completely useless if the Cheka does not agree to send a request to Alapaevsk...... I will never know where to look for him, and I will never know what they did to him. Not an hour goes by without me thinking about such a dear face to me... What a horror it is to imagine that he lies in some abandoned pit or at the bottom of a mine!.. How can one endure this everyday nightmare, knowing that he has already will I never see him?!.. Just like my poor Vasilek (the name that was given to my dad at birth) will never see him... Where is the limit of cruelty? And why do they call themselves people?..
My dear, kind Alix, how I miss you!.. At least I would like to know that everything is fine with you, and that Dmitry, dear to your soul, does not leave you in these difficult moments......... ................................... If I had even a drop of hope left to find my dear Nikolai, I would seems to have endured everything. My soul seems to have gotten used to this terrible loss, but it still hurts a lot... Everything without him is different and so desolate.”

May 18, 1927. An excerpt from Princess Elena’s letter to Alexandra (Alix) Obolenskaya:
“The same dear doctor came again. I can’t prove to him that I simply don’t have any more strength. He says that I should live for the sake of little Vasilko... Is this so?.. What will he find on this terrible earth, my poor baby? ........................................ The cough has returned, and sometimes it becomes impossible to breathe. The doctor always leaves some drops, but I’m ashamed that I can’t thank him in any way. ................................... Sometimes I dream about our favorite room. And my piano... God, how far it all is! And did all this even happen? ........................... and the cherries in the garden, and our nanny, so affectionate and kind. Where is all this now? ................................ (out the window?) I don’t want to look, it’s all covered in soot and only dirty boots are visible … I hate damp.”

My poor grandmother, from the dampness in the room, which was not warmed up even in summer, soon fell ill with tuberculosis. And, apparently weakened by the shocks she had suffered, starvation and illness, she died during childbirth, without ever seeing her baby, and without finding (at least!) the grave of his father. Literally before her death, she took the word from the Seryogins that, no matter how difficult it was for them, they would take the newborn (if he survived, of course) to France, to his grandfather’s sister. Which, at that wild time, to promise, of course, was almost “wrong”, since, unfortunately, the Seryogins had no real opportunity to do this... But they, nevertheless, promised her that at least somehow to ease the last minutes of her, so brutally ruined, very young life, and so that her soul, tormented by pain, could, at least with little hope, leave this cruel world... And even knowing that they will do everything possible to keep their word given to Elena , The Seryogins still didn’t really believe in their hearts that they would ever be able to bring this whole crazy idea to life...

So, in 1927, in the city of Kurgan, in a damp, unheated basement, a little boy was born, and his name was Prince Vasily Nikolaevich de Rohan-Hesse-Obolensky, Lord of Sanbury... He was the only son of Duke de'Rohan-Hesse-Obolensky and Princess Elena Larina.
Then he still could not understand that he was left completely alone in this world and that his fragile life was now completely dependent on the goodwill of a man named Vasily Seryogin...
And this kid also didn’t know that on his father’s side, he was given a stunningly “colorful” Family Tree, which his distant ancestors wove for him, as if preparing the boy in advance to accomplish some special, “great” deeds... and, thereby placing on his then still very fragile shoulders a huge responsibility to those who once so diligently wove his “genetic thread”, connecting their lives into one strong and proud tree...
He was a direct descendant of the great Merovingians, born in pain and poverty, surrounded by the death of his relatives and the ruthless cruelty of the people who destroyed them... But this did not change who this little man who had just been born really was.
And his amazing family began in the 300th (!) year, with the Merovingian king Conon the First (Conan I). (This is confirmed in a handwritten four-volume volume - a manuscript book by the famous French genealogist Norigres, which is located in our family library in France). His Family Tree grew and expanded, weaving into its branches such names as Dukes Rohan in France, Marquises Farnese in Italy, Lords Strafford in England, Russian princes Dolgoruky, Odoevsky... and many, many others , some of which could not be traced even by the world’s most highly qualified genealogists in the UK (Royal College of Arms), who jokingly said that this was the most “international” family tree they had ever compiled.
And it seems to me that this “mix” also did not happen so accidentally... After all, all the so-called noble families had very high-quality genetics, and its correct mixing could have a positive impact on the creation of a very high-quality genetic foundation for the essence of their descendants, which, according to happy circumstances, and my father appeared.
Apparently, “international” mixing gave a much better genetic result than purely “family” mixing, which for a long time was almost an “unwritten law” of all European high-born families, and very often ended in hereditary hemophilia...
But no matter how “international” the physical foundation of my father was, his SOUL (and I can say this with full responsibility) until the end of his life was truly Russian, despite all, even the most amazing, genetic connections...
But let’s return to Siberia, where this “little prince”, born in a basement, in order to simply survive, with the consent of the broad and kind soul of Vasily Nikandrovich Seregin, one fine day became simply Vasily Vasilyevich Seregin, a citizen of the Soviet Union... In which he lived his entire adult life, died, and was buried under the tombstone: “The Seryogin Family,” in the small Lithuanian town of Alytus, far from his family castles, which he had never heard of...

I learned all this, unfortunately, only in 1997, when dad was no longer alive. I was invited to the island of Malta by my cousin, Prince Pierre de Rohan-Brissac, who had been looking for me for a long time, and he also told me who I and my family really are. But I will talk about this much later.
In the meantime, let's return to where in 1927, the kindest souls of people - Anna and Vasily Seryogin, had only one concern - to keep the word given to their dead friends, and, at any cost, take little Vasilko out of this “cursed By God and people" of the earth to a somewhat safe place, and later, try to fulfill their promise and deliver it to distant and completely unfamiliar France... So they began their difficult journey, and, with the help of local connections and friends, They took my little dad to Perm, where, as far as I know, they lived for several years.
The further “wanderings” of the Seryogins seem to me now absolutely incomprehensible and seemingly illogical, since it seemed that the Seryogins were circling in some kind of “zigzags” around Russia, instead of going straight to their desired destination. But for sure, everything was not as simple as it seems to me now, and I am absolutely sure that there were thousands of very serious reasons for their strange movement...
Then on their way there was Moscow (in which the Seryogins had some distant relatives living), later - Vologda, Tambov, and the last place for them, before leaving their native Russia, was Taldom, from which (only after a long and very difficult fifteen years after birth of my dad) they finally managed to get to the unfamiliar beauty of Lithuania... which was only half the way to distant France...
(I am sincerely grateful to the Taldom group of the Russian Social Movement “Renaissance. Golden Age”, and personally to Mr. Vitold Georgievich Shlopak, for an unexpected and very pleasant gift - finding facts confirming the presence of the Seryogin family in the city of Taldom from 1938 to 1942. According to these data, they lived on Kustarnaya Street, house 2a, not far from which Vasily attended high school. Anna Fedorovna worked as a typist in the editorial office of the regional newspaper “Collective Work” (now “Zarya”), and Vasily Nikandrovich was an accountant in the local zagotzerno. This information was obtained find members of the Taldom cell of the Movement, for which my deepest gratitude to them!)
I think that during their wanderings the Seryogins had to grab any job, just to survive as human beings. The time was harsh and, naturally, they did not count on anyone’s help. The wonderful Obolensky estate remained in the distant and happy past, which now seemed like just an incredibly beautiful fairy tale... The reality was cruel and, like it or not, it had to be reckoned with...
At that time, the bloody Second World War was already underway. Crossing borders was very, very difficult.
(I never found out who and how helped them cross the front line. Apparently, one of these three people was very necessary for someone, if they still managed to do something like this... And so did I I am absolutely sure that someone influential and strong enough helped them, otherwise they would never have been able to cross the border in such a difficult time... But no matter how much I pestered my poor patient grandmother later, she stubbornly avoided answering this question Unfortunately, I was never able to find out anything about this).
One way or another, they still ended up in unfamiliar Lithuania... Grandfather (I will continue to call him that, since he was the only one I knew as my grandfather) became very ill, and they had to stop in Lithuania for a while. And it was this short stop, one might say, that decided their future fate... And also the fate of my father and my entire family.
They stopped in the small town of Alytus (so that they would not have to pay too much for housing, since, unfortunately, it was quite difficult for them financially at that time). And so, while they were “looking around,” they didn’t even feel how completely enchanted they were by the beauty of nature, the comfort of a small town and the warmth of the people, which in itself seemed to invite them to stay at least for a while.

And also, despite the fact that at that time Lithuania was already under the heel of the “brown plague”, it still somehow retained its independent and militant spirit, which even the most ardent servants of communism did not manage to knock out of it... And this attracted the Seryogins even more than the beauty of the local nature or the hospitality of the people. So they decided to stay “for a while”... what happened was forever... It was already 1942. And the Seryogins watched with regret as the “brown” octopus of National Socialism tightened its tentacles around the country they loved so much... Having crossed the front line, they hoped that from Lithuania they would be able to get to France. But even with the “brown plague,” the door to the “big world” for the Seryogins (and, naturally, for my dad) turned out to be closed, and this time forever... But life went on... And the Seryogins began to gradually settle down in their new place of residence. They had to look for work again in order to have some means of subsistence. But it turned out to be not so difficult to do this - there was always a place for those who wanted to work in hardworking Lithuania. Therefore, very soon life flowed along its usual course and it seemed that everything was calm and good again...

The famous American weightlifting coach Bob Goffman wrote about Yuri Vlasov

“...You were born to help Man know himself. Believe that we all have an endless supply of strength. That each of us is capable of creating miracles...”

Just two lines, but they contain the whole truth about Yuri Petrovich Vlasov. His whole life, sports career, life principles are a guide for young people (and not only) on the harmonious development of a person. And not only physical, but also spiritual.

I understand that no one can tell about Vlasov better than Vlasov, but I am writing this post not only for you, but, first of all, for myself. It is precisely I who need what I understood while reading and studying Vlasov to firmly and firmly settle in my head and heart. What happens faster is when you start formulating your thoughts out loud, or even better on paper.

The strongest man on the planet. Agree, friends, that most of us perceive this phrase from the point of view of physical strength. He lifted more, threw further... But, if we talk about Yuri Vlasov, then we must take into account not only physical, but also spiritual strength. Willpower and fortitude.

Let's start with physical strength.

Yuri Petrovich, aren’t you an alien?

It’s strange, but the life of Yuri Petrovich before the Saratov Suvorov Military School was closed behind 7 locks. Maybe because his father was a GRU colonel? Anything is possible.

But, there is something from the “secret” biography. It is known that Yuri Vlasov was born on December 5, 1935 in the city of Makeevka (Donetsk region). We know about our parents that my mother was in charge of the library, and my father was a diplomat, a GRU colonel. The boy received a love of books and literature in general from his mother. But Yura saw himself as an intelligence diplomat, like his father.

There is, of course, not enough information. And we can only guess what exercises the boy did, what loads he gave himself, so that at the age of 14 he could already have a second male category in athletics.

But the way the future Olympic champion shaped himself during his years of study at the school is worthy of the most scrupulous study, expert assessments and a treatise called “Passion for Strength.”

Here are some results from Suvorov Military School cadet Yuri Vlasov.

• Parallel bars push-ups – 40
• Pull-up – 30 (weight over 90 kg)
• Long jump – 6 m
• Throwing a grenade (700 gr) – more than 60 meters
• Squats with a barbell weighing 200 kg - 8 times per approach (As Yuri Petrovich wrote: “only the heavyweight champion of the country could do this”). After several years of training, the weight of the bar increased to 300 kg.

This is how I look at all these results of a 20-year-old young man and think more and more about the gaps in Vlasov’s biography. Yuri Petrovich, aren’t you an alien? Let's hope not.

And now, a very important point!

I want to say that all these results were relatively easy for Yuri Petrovich. Yes, we developed our own training system and the loads were exorbitant for mere mortals. But for Vlasov it was physical education. He didn't think about records and championships. He calmly grew his strength without any jerks. Big sport began later. And when sports begin, physical education ends. What happens when sports ends? More on this below.

Big sport. Ten-year-old Vlasov

And then the rapid march to the championship began. There were plenty of incentives. Including, as it seemed to everyone then, the “eternal” records of the American Paul Anderson. This man was deservedly admired by the whole world. In 1956, he raised the bar of strength to such a height that many athletes would not even think about it.

Judge for yourself.

Vlasov didn’t think about this plank either. He simply admired the talent of this man of strength. And he didn’t even have a thought that what already seemed unshakable in 1959 would collapse.

Sports are just leisure

After graduating from the Suvorov School, Vlasov continued his education at the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy.

Unlike school, training has become more focused. I mean, weightlifting became the sport that Yuri became more and more interested in.

But even here, most of the time was spent studying. Training only in free time. I want to say that, according to Vlasov himself, he had enough leisure. Studying was easy, there was no family, no bad habits.

The results came very quickly. Already in his second year of study, Vlasov entered the top five weightlifters in Moscow. Not a single competition took place without a future champion. Threw a grenade, shot put and, of course, the barbell. And what is important is that he did not fall below the prize place.

And yet, sports victories were not an end in themselves. He loved sports, but did not consider it his life's work. First of all, study, literature, history. Well, what about “gold”? And then the “gold”.

The strongest man

1957 - at the age of 22, Vlasov was officially a master of sports of the USSR. He is already training at CSKA and Suren Petrosovich Bogdasarov becomes his coach.

From that moment on, Vlasov’s ten-year life began. Records fell one after another. First allied, and then world.

There were no more idols for Vlasov. He stopped being afraid of names, and simply moved forward and became stronger.

• 1957 - Union record in the clean and jerk (185 kg), and then in the snatch (144.5 kg). Moreover, Vlasov did it surprisingly easily for himself. He just didn't feel the weight of the barbell.
• 1959 – First world record in clean and jerk – 197.5 kg. It was installed in the “House of Officers of the Leningrad Military District”. It’s hard to imagine what happened there next. After all, Anderson's most formidable record has been broken!
  

  All! Stop! From that moment on, Vlasov experienced a reassessment of values. He realized that he had shouldered the burden of the strongest man in the world. And she is very heavy. This title, in addition to honor and glory, requires protection. No matter what the cost, but Vlasov had to constantly prove to himself and others that he received this title not by chance.

• 1959 - Victory at the World Championships in Warsaw after a five-hour fight with two American athletes. Please note, 5 hours of struggle, and it took our hero several months to come to his senses. But he came.

XVII Summer Olympic Games in Rome. 1960 "Vlasov Olympics"

And finally, 1960 is a triumph. There is no other way to say it. Until now, the Olympics in Rome are considered the “Vlasov Olympics.” Yes, you have to see it to understand. Unfortunately, television of the 60s cannot fully reflect the atmosphere of those competitions, but you and I can still see something (there is a video at the end of the article).

Brief report and results.

The fight took place between two Americans (Jim Bradford and Norbert Shemanski) and Yuri Vlasov.

The fight was, as they say, life-or-death... From 21.00 to 3 am. Nothing to say, worthy opponents.

Bench press Vlasov shares 1st and 2nd place with Bradford - 180 kilograms. Shemanski is third.

Jerk. The Soviet weightlifter is the first with a result of 155 kg. Bradford was five kilos behind and Shemanski fifteen.

Push - denouement.

Bradford lifts 182.5. This is a new Olympic record in the clean and jerk and a repeat of Anderson's world record in eventing (512.5). Trying to raise 185 is a failure.

Vlasov gets down to business.

1 approach. On the bar 185. The weight is taken. Vlasov is an Olympic champion with a new world record in triathlon (520 kg)

2nd approach. The barbell has become 10 heavier! kilogram. The hall is buzzing. Eat! Purely! Another world record in triathlon (530 kg)

3rd approach. 202.5. To be honest, I can’t imagine what’s going on in the hall. The audience has already witnessed a miracle. And here it is..... And Vlasov can no longer be stopped. The weight is taken. World record in clean and jerk and world record in triathlon (537.5 kg)!!!

And silence. And then the explosion of the stands. Temperamental Italian spectators rushed to the platform. And even the musicians abandoned their seats to greet the Soviet champion. Bravo, Yuri! Bravissimo!

"Walking on Gold"

The next pre-Olympic cycle for Yuri Petrovich is walking for gold. World Championships in Vienna, Stockholm, Budapest. There were no rivals left except Norbet Shemanski. World records fell one after another. As a result, the man-power raised the bar in triathlon to 580 kg.

In general, Yuri Petrovich came to the Tokyo Olympics as a clear favorite. And he needed victory for two reasons:

1. First of all: These are the Olympic Games. That says it all
2. And secondly: Vlasov was ending his career. And, you understand, he wanted to leave undefeated.

And, nevertheless, having set 2 new world records, he lost. He lost to his teammate, future weightlifting star Leonid Zhabotinsky.

The second ten-year plan of Yuri Petrovich Vlasov. Revenge of the body.

In 1966, Vlasov finally left big sport. And I return to the question: “What then?”

There is a whole galaxy of Soviet and modern athletes who, in their finest hour, worked miracles. They set records, won the most prestigious competitions and entered their names into halls of fame.

But the time came and it was necessary to leave. Caregiving is always stressful. And for a professional athlete, this stress turns into a real test of physical and spiritual strength. And many people do not pass this test.

I’m not talking about “emptiness” now. Although, this bitter feeling took possession of many legends. You are no longer needed, you are gone. Terrible feeling. But Vlasov’s cup has passed. He has another problem.

I’m talking about a “delayed penalty”, about the body’s revenge for past overloads. In my opinion, what Vlasov did together with his coach and his body cannot even be called overload. This is self-torture, sadism towards oneself.

A lot of interesting and instructive things can be learned from it. At least that's what I gleaned. And guess what? There are now programs about extraordinary people who can do things that others cannot do. So here it is. There are always captions: “Don’t try to repeat it!”

And, despite Yuri Petrovich’s confidence that everyone can overcome illness and old age, I have a hard time believing it. Not every. Dear Yuri Petrovich, they don’t become Vlasovs, they are born Vlasovs. I think so.

That's probably all. One can talk about the Vlasov phenomenon for a long time. But let's not forget that Yuri Petrovich is an excellent writer. And the way he describes his life is much more interesting to read than my attempts.

So, friends, download, read, study

Sincerely, Yuri Melamud and ""

Vlasov Yuri Petrovich (born in 1935) - Russian athlete (weightlifting), Honored Master of Sports (1959). Olympic champion (1960), multiple world, European and USSR champion (1959-64), multiple world heavyweight record holder, politician, writer.

Born in Donetsk region. Yuri's father, Pyotr Parfenovich Vlasov (Vladimirov), after graduating from the Institute of Oriental Studies in 1938, was appointed liaison officer of the Comintern in China during the Second World War, then Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Burma. Mother - Maria Danilovna - was in charge of the library. From an early age, she instilled in her sons, Yuri and Boris, a love of reading.

Yuri Vlasov became interested in weightlifting at the Suvorov School, which he graduated in 1953, and six years later he became a graduate (with the rank of lieutenant) of the Air Force Academy. N. E. Zhukovsky (Moscow).

In February 1957, Vlasov fulfilled the standard of a master of sports. That same year, he set a number of all-Union records and became one of the country's best weightlifters. His mentor was SP. Bogdasarov. For five years (1959-1963), the athlete won all competitions, championships of the USSR, Europe, and the world.

In 1960, at the Olympic Games in Rome, Vlasov set 4 heavyweight records: 180 kg in the bench press and 155 kg in the snatch (Olympic), 202.5 kg in the clean and jerk and 537.5 kg in triathlon (world). He was recognized as the best athlete of the Olympics and called “the strongest man on the planet.”

All Vlasov’s performances were distinguished by the highest technique, rationalism and professionalism. During his sports career (1957-1967), he set 29 world records: six in the bench press (from 186 to 199 kg); seven in the snatch (151.5 to 172.5 kg), nine in the clean and jerk (197.5 to 215.5 kg) and seven in eventing (537.5 to 580 kg).

At the Olympic Games in Tokyo (1964), he set a world record in the bench press (197.5 kg), but took second place in the triathlon total (570 kg). After the Olympics in Japan, the athlete stopped active training, but in 1966 he again pleased his fans by returning to the platform and setting his next, but last world record in 1967 at the Moscow Championships -

199 kg bench press.

Vlasov was awarded the Order of Lenin (1960) and the Red Banner of Labor (1964). The champion gave ten years of his life to big sport. Since 1968, he became a professional writer and became the author of numerous books, and not only about sports. The athlete devoted many years to processing his father’s diaries and memoirs and in 1973 published the famous book “Special Region of China”

In 1987-1988 Vlasov was appointed chairman of the USSR Athletic Gymnastics Federation. In 1989 he was elected people's deputy of the USSR, and in 1993 - of Russia.

Having become a famous and experienced politician, Yuri Petrovich nominated himself for the post of President of Russia in 1996, however, having received less than one percent of the votes, he dropped out in the first round.

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In the world of sports, rich in star names, there are a number of giant athletes who stand apart. Their achievements, sports, and human traits personify the era. And in this cohort, Yu.P. takes his unambiguous place. Vlasov. He has a special role in the history of sports and, without exaggeration, in world history - he expanded the ideas of earthlings about human capabilities.

Yuri Vlasov was born on December 5, 1935 in the city of Makeevka, Donetsk region (Ukraine). Father - Vlasov (Vladimirov) Pyotr Parfenovich (1905-1953), military man, diplomat, man of bright destiny. He began his working life as a mechanic's apprentice at the Voronezh Agricultural Equipment Plant. After serving in the army, he entered and graduated from the Narimanov Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies in 1938. From May 1938 to July 1940 he worked in China as a TASS correspondent. In May 1942, he was sent to Yan'an (Special Region of China) as a liaison officer for the Comintern under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee, while simultaneously performing the duties of a TASS war correspondent. Here he stayed until November 1945. In 1946, he was transferred to work at the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1948 to 1951 - Consul General of the USSR in Shanghai. Since 1952 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to Burma. P.P. Vlasov is buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.

Mother - Maria Danilovna, originally from Kuban, from a large Cossack family. She worked as a library manager. From an early age, she instilled in her sons, Yuri and Boris, a great love of reading and knowledge. She was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery. Wife – Vlasova Larisa Sergeevna. Daughter – Elena.

The future hero of the Roman Olympics, Yuri Vlasov, took his first and very confident steps in life in the military field. From 1946 to 1953, he studied at the Saratov Suvorov Military School, from which he graduated with honors. Here I became seriously interested in sports - I mastered many types of wrestling and boxing. I enjoyed doing athletics, throwing a sports grenade and putting a shot. He was a champion among his peers from Suvorov and Nakhimov. Surprisingly, he did not like the barbell - the sport that brought him world recognition. I read more about her in books. I idolized strong people and read Georg Hackenschmidt’s book “The Path to Strength and Health.” He loved to exercise with dumbbells and kettlebells.

After graduating from the Suvorov Military School, he entered the Air Force Academy named after N.E. Zhukovsky, where, contrary to his former logic, he became seriously interested in weightlifting. Academy named after N.E. He graduated from Zhukovsky in 1959 with honors and a gold medal.

In February 1957, under the leadership of coach Evgeniy Nikolaevich Shapovalov, he won his first victories in weightlifting and fulfilled the standard of a master of sports. The silver badge was presented to the athlete by Marshal S.M. Budyonny. In the same year, Yuri Vlasov set a number of all-Union records and became one of the best weightlifters in the country. Now Suren Petrosovich Bogdasarov becomes his mentor. For 5 years (1959-63), the athlete won all competitions - the championships of the USSR, Europe, and the world. In 1959, Yu. Vlasov was awarded the high sports title - Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.

In 1960, at the Olympics in Rome, Vlasov set 4 records in the super heavyweight division: 180 kg in the bench press and 155 kg in the snatch (Olympic), 202.5 kg in the clean and jerk and 537.5 kg in the classical triathlon total (world). Having defeated the famous American heavyweight Paul Anderson in an absentee match, he was recognized as the best athlete of the Rome Olympics and was awarded the title “The Strongest Man on the Planet.”

On the Roman platform, Vlasov accomplished an inherently unprecedented feat: he revolutionized the idea of ​​the strongest athletes in the world in the minds of mankind. He proved by his example that a person can be both strong and highly educated, intelligent, smart. If before Vlasov’s triumph in Rome, weightlifters were often looked at as representatives of brute force with limited intelligence, then on the Roman pedestal - with the help of television and the press - the world community became acquainted with a man charming in all respects.

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The hero turned out to be a great erudite. He could easily talk with journalists and admirers of his talent about music, sculpture, painting, the advantages and disadvantages of world literary classics, and not only in Russian, but also in French. Vlasov stated that strength, like intelligence, can develop indefinitely. Hundreds of thousands of athletes from various countries believed him.

Thanks to Vlasov, the barbell has become one of the most fashionable and most attractive sports equipment. Weightlifting has gained a “second wind” and rapidly gained high popularity on all continents. The “golden age” of not only the Russian but also the world barbell began.

At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, Vlasov set 2 world records: in the bench press - 197.5 kg, in the snatch - 172.5 kg, but in the triathlon total (570 kg) he took second place. After losing in Tokyo, the athlete stopped active training, but in 1966 he began training again. In 1967, the athlete pleased the fans by setting another, but, as it turned out, the last record at the Moscow championship - 199 kg in the bench press. In total, he set 31 world and 41 USSR records. Yu. Vlasov is a four-time world champion, six-time European champion. Recognized as the best athlete of the country, year, century.

In 1960, Vlasov was awarded the Order of Lenin; in 1964 he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.

The idea of ​​leaving weightlifting and seriously engaging in literary activity came to him more and more often. True, there was a debt to the barbell that made him world famous. He seemed to split into two, which negatively affected his literary hobby and weightlifting training. But the champion could no longer stay between the bar and the feather for too long, and did not want to.

Vlasov’s public statement that he was leaving the weightlifting platform forever greatly upset all his fans. The athlete was in his prime and was the first to lift a total of 600 kg, but this, alas, did not happen for known reasons.

Yu.P. Vlasov became a writer, statesman and public figure. From 1960 to 1964, Yuri Petrovich was elected as a deputy of the Moscow Council. In 1985, Yuri Vlasov was elected chairman of the USSR Weightlifting Federation. In 1988, he became chairman of the USSR Athletic Gymnastics Federation.

Since 1989, Vlasov has been a people's deputy of the USSR for the Lublin district of Moscow. On December 12, 1993, he was elected to the State Duma of the Russian Federation. Worked as a member of the Safety Committee. In 1996, Yuri Vlasov participated as a candidate in the elections of the President of Russia.

Author of popular books in Russia and abroad: “Overcome Yourself”, “Salty Joys”, “Special Region of China”; literary trilogy “Fiery Cross”, “Believe!”, “Justice of Force”, “Who Rules the Ball”, “Rus without a Leader”, “We Are and Will Be”, “Timers”.

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Austin Powers 30.12.2007 04:46:14

Yuri Petrovich is a strong and intelligent person, it is very nice that such people still exist in the world. Now no one needs such people - they are rudiments and extinct dinosaurs. Today it is easier for scoundrels to live. But we remember you, Yuri Petrovich, we respect and love you.

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Vitaly 07.12.2015 09:13:07

Why didn’t anyone say a word about the 80th anniversary of YuP Vlasov? Even if he is seriously ill or has again displeased the authorities, one cannot simply cross out such a noble and decent person as Yuri Vlasov.