Anatoly Vladimirovich Tarasov
Soviet hockey player, football player and coach in these sports. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1949). Honored Coach of the USSR (1956, the title was removed in 1969, but returned the same year).
According to Encyclopedia Britannica, Tarasov is the "father of Russian hockey" who made the USSR "the dominant force in international competition." Together with Arkady Chernyshev, he set an unsurpassed record - for 9 years in a row (1963 - 1971), the USSR national hockey team under their leadership became the champion in all international tournaments.
Biography
Anatoly was 9 years old when his father died. Mother, Ekaterina Kharitonovna, worked as a seamstress and motor operator. He was the eldest man in the house and raised his younger brother Yuri.
The Tarasovs lived not far from the Dynamo sports complex under construction, and the brothers enrolled in the Young Dynamo sports hockey school. Possessing an ambitious character, Anatoly quickly became the leader and captain of the Dynamo youth bandy team, then the Moscow national team.
In 1937, Anatoly Tarasov entered the Higher School of Coaches at the Moscow Institute of Physical Education. At the same time, I tried to immediately put the acquired knowledge into practice.
Before the war, he played football and was an attacking player. In 1939 he took last place in Group A as part of the Odessa Dynamo, in 1940 he took 4th place with CDKA, the 1941 championship, where he played for KKA, was not completed. After the 1941 championship, Tarasov immediately went to the front.
He returned from the Great Patriotic War with the rank of senior major of the internal troops.
In 1945, he was recommended by army football coach B. Arkadyev as a mentor in the sports club of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District. So Anatoly Tarasov became the coach of army teams in both ice hockey and football. At the same time, he was also a team player.
In 1947, Tarasov, as a coach, headed the Moscow Air Force FC for several months; without him, the team took last place in the first group of the USSR Championship.
Also in 1947, he was appointed player-coach of CSKA. He was also a team player until 1953. Together with the club he became the champion of the USSR in ice hockey in 1948 - 1950. Played 100 matches, scored 106 goals.
In 1950, a tragedy struck the family - his brother Yuri died in a plane crash in Sverdlovsk.
After finishing playing, he continued to be the head coach of CDKA, CDSA, CSK MO, CSKA (until 1974 with short breaks in January-November 1961 and June-November 1970). In this position he won the following titles:
champion of the USSR (1948-1950, 1955-1956, 1958-1960, 1963-1966, 1968, 1970-1973);
second prize-winner of the USSR championships (1952-1954, 1957, 1967, 1969 and 1974);
third prize-winner at the USSR Championship (1962);
winner of the USSR Cup (1954-1956, 1966-1969, 1973);
finalist of the USSR Cup (1953).
In 1958-1960 - senior coach of the USSR national ice hockey team. In 1962-1972 - coach of the USSR national team (senior coach - Arkady Ivanovich Chernyshev).
Under the leadership of Tarasov as a senior coach, the USSR national team became:
third prize-winner of the Olympic Olympics (World Championship) (1960);
second prize-winner of the World Championship (1958, 1959);
European champion (1958-1960).
As the second coach of the USSR national team, A.V. Tarasov led the USSR national ice hockey team to the title of champion:
Winter Olympic Games (1964, 1968, 1972);
Ice Hockey World Championships (1963-1971);
European Hockey Championships (1963-1970).
In 1975, already a renowned hockey specialist, he took over the football team CSKA, with whom he took 13th place in the Major League, after which he was fired.
Anatoly Tarasov founded the Golden Puck youth tournament.
In 1974 he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. In 1997, he was among the first to be inducted into the International Hockey Federation (IIHF) Hockey Hall of Fame.
Recipient of the Wayne Gretzky International Award, presented by the NHL Hockey Hall of Fame to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the game of hockey.
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December 10 would have been the 95th anniversary of the birth of the “father of Soviet hockey,” legendary coach Anatoly Tarasov. "RG" recalls facts from the biography of Anatoly Vladimirovich, about which the general public knew little.
1. In the CDKA hockey club, Anatoly Tarasov played in the same trio with Vsevolod Bobrov and Evgeniy Babich. The top three of the army club were a threat to their opponents. Let's say, in the 1948 championship, Tarasov, Bobrov and Babich scored 97 times out of 108 goals scored by CDKA! True, the relationship between Tarasov and Bobrov did not work out. According to people who closely communicated with Tarasov, they practically did not speak.
They say that Tarasov did not forgive Bobrov for his time with the Air Force team, when General Vasily Stalin fired him as coach, installing Bobrov. By 1954, relations between the two stars had become so tense that the participation of the USSR national team in the World Championships in Stockholm was in question. Before the tournament, Bobrov set a condition: I would play for the team only if Tarasov was not the coach. As a result, Tarasov attended the championship only as an observer from the sports committee. Tarasov returned to the national team and, together with Arkady Chernyshev, won the Olympics three times in a row (1964, 1968, 1972) and the World Championships 9 times in a row (1963-1971). In 1972, he brought gold from Sapporo, but to the World Championships in Prague The team was already taken by Bobrov. The fact is that immediately after the Winter Games, the leadership of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic turned to their Soviet colleagues with a request not to send Tarasov, for whom many players of the Czechoslovak national team disliked. The Central Committee immediately recalled the episode when, during the Olympics in Sapporo, Tarasov refused to play a draw with the Czechs: in this situation, we would take the “gold”, and the “silver” would go to the Czechoslovakian national team. But ours won 5:2, and the Americans beat the Czechs. As a result, on March 21, 1972, Bobrov accepted the team.
It is no secret that Tarasov and Bobrov lived in the same house on Leningradsky Prospekt. Eyewitnesses recall an episode when two Volgas - Tarasova and Bobrova - stood nose to nose in the arch of a house for half an hour, refusing to let each other through. Neighbors had to call the police to clear the passage.
2. Anatoly Tarasov married in 1939 a girl named Nina, who studied with him at the high school of trainers. Nina Grigorievna, who was ten months older than her husband and lived to be 93 years old, recalled that after Tarasov proposed to her, they did not organize any magnificent ceremonies and simply went to the Baumansky District Executive Committee of Moscow, where they signed. After this, the newlyweds celebrated the event in the institute’s canteen by ordering beef stroganoff, which had previously seemed very expensive to them. As a gift, the bride received a bouquet of flowers and a vase. In the evening of the same day, Tarasov left for Odessa to play for the Dynamo football club. Tarasov just managed to run home and wrote a note: “Mom, I think I got married!” And Tarasov saw his young wife only when he came to Moscow for the games.
In February 1947, their daughter Tatyana was born, who became one of the most famous figure skating coaches not only in Russia, but also in the world. Also, their daughter Galina grew up in their family. The father raised his daughters very harshly and every day at seven in the morning, in any weather, he drove them out to exercise. By the way, it was the daughters who insisted that Tarasov buy his wife an engagement ring only for the “golden” wedding anniversary. Until this time, Anatoly Vladimirovich categorically did not want to “waste money down the drain.”
3. The idea of the Super Series against Canadian pros belongs to Anatoly Tarasov. It came to the mind of a wonderful coach back in the early 60s. Anatoly Vladimirovich convinced party officials many times of the need for such fights, and endlessly wrote letters to the CPSU Central Committee. Once, at a reception for Olympic heroes in a mansion on Sparrow Hills, where Secretary General Nikita Khrushchev was also present, the world’s first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, at Tarasov’s request, approached him and asked him to allow us to play with the Canadians from the NHL. Khrushchev then joked: let’s have a drink first. “No, Nikita Sergeevich, let’s resolve the issue first. Comrade Tarasov says that we will defeat the Canadians, he’ll take it!” And Khrushchev was persuaded, but then Leonid Brezhnev came to power. And the question of the USSR-Canada match was postponed again...
4. Tarasov did not go to Canada for the Super Series because he was considered “unreliable.” Tarasov was reminded, among other things, of the 1969 match between CSKA and Spartak, when the coach took the army team to the locker room, despite the presence of Leonid Brezhnev in the VIP box.
In that game, in case of victory, “Spartak became the champion. But for CSKA the game did not go well. At some point, Tarasov thought that the referees were helping the opponent and he ordered the team to go to the locker room. The pause lasted for 37 minutes. Tarasov agreed to go to backtracked only after the Minister of Defense of the USSR, Marshal and Hero of the Soviet Union Grechko came to the locker room. Then the game resumed, Spartak won, won the championship, and army fans, annoyed by the defeat, did not let Tarasov out of Luzhniki for a long time and even tried to turn him over. his "Volga". After that match, by decision of the Sports Committee, Tarasov was removed from the title of Honored Coach of the USSR. However, six months later the title was returned, but he had to forget about the national team. We note that since then Tarasov has never won anything again.
5. Anatoly Tarasov tried to diversify his training as best he could. The players ran on the ice with crowbars above their heads, tied themselves with rubber bands to the side and tried to reach the puck, ran exhausting crosses and even...jumped from the tower into the pool with their clubs! Let us note that Tarasov, despite the fact that he was terribly afraid of heights, jumped into the water first and hit himself very hard, but did not show it.
6. Tarasov loved to hold important meetings in the bathhouse. His regular partners in the steam room were his friend and neighbor, basketball coach Alexander Gomelsky, and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. The head of the FHR, Vladislav Tretyak, once admitted that it was impossible to go to the bathhouse with Tarasov - he was so fanatical about steaming. In the bath, if the temperature exceeds 120 degrees, you need to take a regular washcloth, dip it in cold water and put it in your mouth. It will be easier to breathe, and the steam will not burn your throat. Tarasov went even further. He lay down on the shelf, poured cold water into the gang, put his head in there and drank. He was treated with 4 brooms, but he didn’t care. Then he went out, drank beer and solved all the problems “at once”.
7. In addition to hockey, Tarasov had a hobby - pickling tomatoes and making homemade liqueurs. In the trunk of his Volga he always carried vodka, homemade alcohol tinctures, those same salted tomatoes and sauerkraut. However, he never drank more than 300 grams.
10.12.1918 - 23.06.1995
Honored Master of Sports.
Honored Coach of the USSR.
Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences.
Played for the teams:
Air Force MVO (1946-1947), CDKA, CDSA (1947-1953).
Champion of the USSR 1948-1950
Played 100 matches, scored 106 goals.
In 1946-1947 - senior trainer of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District.
From 1947 to 1975 - senior coach of CDKA, CDSA, CSK MO, CSKA - champion of the USSR 1948-1950, 1955-1956, 1958-1960, 1963-1966, 1968, 1970-1973, 1975,
winner of the USSR Cup 1954-1956, 1966-1969, 1973.
In 1958-1960 and 1962-1972 - senior coach of the USSR national team
- world champion 1963-1971,
- European champion 1958-1960 and 1963-1970,
- champion of the Olympic Games 1964, 1968, 1972.
“In sports you should never stop. When the opponents are equal, the result can be random. You have to be head and shoulders above. Only then can you suppress, defeat, destroy any opponent. I love my guys very much. That’s why I demanded from them what no one else could ever do." (A.V. Tarasov)
“He is infinitely confident in success and brilliantly knows how to make others believe in him.” (about Tarasov) “He was a very difficult, tough coach. Tarasov broke people, but with this breaking, he actually knew how to create unique characters.” (A. Gomelsky).
In 1977, in Artek, during the children's "Starts of Hope" he continuously spoke to the pioneers, and one of these performances involuntarily resulted in a training session: right on the asphalt, skinning their knees and elbows until they bled, the children, together with the hockey luminary, did somersaults, she ran with weights, jumped over benches and, by God, if at that moment Tarasov had said that we needed to jump into the sea and swim to Turkey, everyone would have swam, including the counselors, and just spectators.
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An outstanding Russian hockey player and coach, as well as one of the founders of the Russian hockey school. USSR champion in 1948-50. Honored Master of Sports. Honored Coach of the USSR. Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences.
Born on December 10, 1918 in Moscow.
In 1937, Anatoly Tarasov entered the Higher School of Coaches at the Moscow Institute of Physical Education. Extensive practical experience in playing the game was supplemented by much-needed theoretical knowledge, which he tried to use in life.
Sports leaders paid attention to a talented, energetic player who had obvious organizational skills and proved himself well as a coach.
In 1945, he was recommended by the legendary army football coach V. Arkadyev as a mentor at the sports club of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District (VVS MVO). So Anatoly Tarasov became the coach of army teams in both ice hockey and football. The management's choice was completely justified: Anatoly Tarasov brought the team to the ranks of the undoubted leaders.
Two years later, in 1947, he was appointed player-coach of the hockey team of the Central House of the Red Army (CDKA).
Subsequently, CDKA was renamed into CDSA (Central House of the Soviet Army), and later into CSKA (Central Sports Club of the Army).
During this time, Anatoly Tarasov became the champion of the USSR three times (1948-1950). In addition, in 1949 he was awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports of the USSR. Thus, on the ice field, he showed his subordinates by personal example how to play this courageous and difficult game. In total, during his long sports career, he won 100 matches in the USSR championships, scoring 106 goals.
Anatoly Tarasov continuously led the CSKA hockey team for almost three decades (until 1975). Possessing a powerful intellect and being a maximalist by nature, Tarasov persistently and passionately strove to make the teams entrusted to him champions.
Under his talented and wise leadership, the CSKA hockey team became the gold medalist of the USSR championship 18 times (in 1948-50, 1955, 1956, 1958-1960, 1963-1966, 1968, 1970-1973, 1975)
In 1957, Anatoly Tarasov was awarded the title of Honored Trainer of the USSR, and in 1958 another burden fell on his shoulders - heavy and responsible, but honorable. From that time on, he was the coach of the USSR national team for fourteen years (in 1958-60 and 1962-1972). And here he also achieved amazing results. Under his leadership, the USSR team won the World Championships nine times (1963-1971) and became the champion of the Olympic Games three times (1964, 1968, 1962).
Tarasov trained several dozen multiple world and Olympic champions. These include such legendary hockey players as Valery Kharlamov, Anatoly Firsov, Boris Mikhailov, Vladislav Tretyak, Alexander Ragulin, Victor Kuzkin, Almetov, Loktev, Boris Alexandrov, Vladimir Petrov.
The famous hockey coach defended his dissertation and became a candidate of pedagogical sciences. I would like to note that Anatoly Tarasov did so much for the formation and development of the national hockey school that his work is still remembered with deep respect not only by his direct students, but also by all Russian hockey players.
Anatoly Tarasov made a great contribution to world hockey. His experience and sportsmanship are reflected in the books he published - “Hockey Tactics” (1963) and “Hockey of the Future” (1971).
In addition, Anatoly Tarasov did a lot to popularize hockey in our country. For example, for a long time he was the chairman of the children's hockey club "Golden Puck", in the depths of which many famous hockey players received their initial training and a considerable share of sportsmanship.
Anatoly Vladimirovich Tarasov died in Moscow on June 23, 1995.
Hockey coach Anatoly Vladimirovich Tarasov was a complex and contradictory person. Especially in relation to journalists. There is a known case when Tarasov insisted on a ban on Evgeny Rubin (a leading hockey journalist in the 60s) from working at the World Hockey Championship in Vienna. The history of Tarasov’s successful career contains other not very pleasant moments. However, it is simply stupid to argue with the fact that Anatoly Vladimirovich was a talented coach.
Together with his brother in his childhood, Tarasov enrolled in the “Young Dynamo” sports hockey school, which determined Anatoly’s main choice in life. The boy quickly became the captain of the Dynamo junior bandy team, and then the Moscow national team.
In 1937, Tarasov entered the Higher School of Coaches at the Moscow Institute of Physical Education, where as a student he tried to apply his practical knowledge for training.
Before the war, he played football as a forward, first in Dynamo Odessa, then in CDKA and KKA. After the 1941 championship he immediately went to the front. He returned with the rank of senior major and, upon leaving the reserve, became a trainer for the Air Force of the Moscow Military District (VVS MVO). Moreover, he coached both hockey and hockey at the same time.
Although the team achieved great success, two years later Tarasov asked to be transferred to the CDKA coach. According to one version, the reason for leaving the Air Force was disagreements with Vasily Stalin, the son of Joseph Stalin, over the formation of the team.
One way or another, Tarasov moves to CDKA, which will later be renamed CSKA. Since then . It is with this name that the successes and failures of Anatoly Vladimirovich are associated - from universal recognition and popular love to expulsion from hockey and virtual oblivion.
A maximalist, an intellectual, Tarasov did everything to strengthen CSKA, even at the cost of other clubs. Good connections in the Ministry of Defense helped put pressure on other clubs and get the best hockey players. But it must be admitted that without the talent of the coach, these best would not have played well and would not have brought so many victories to the club and the country.
Under the leadership of Tarasov, the army team won gold in the national championship 18 times, and the USSR national team won nine times at the World Championships and three times at the Olympics.
It was all the more surprising for everyone when, in the spring of 1972, Andrei Starovoitov suddenly announced to journalists about a “joyful event” - Tarasov himself decided to leave the national team. The head of Soviet hockey explained: “We ourselves didn’t know how to get rid of him, but here he put in a statement!” This ended the career of a hockey coach for Tarasov. For some time he trained football players, but did not take root in this sport. When FC CSKA took 13th place in the season, Tarasov was fired.
Meanwhile, Soviet hockey players entered the world stage and began playing with NHL teams. In fact, Tarasov's departure coincided with the beginning of a new era. He himself was opposed to games with the Americans and Canadians, and perhaps this influenced his sporting destiny.
Three times Anatoly Tarasov himself became the champion of the Soviet Union. In 1949, received the title of Honored Master of Sports. True, the “deserved” one will be taken away from him later, when he leads the team off the ice during the game with the Czechs. By order of Brezhnev, our hockey players had to lose (due to the scandalous events in Prague). Tarasov could not do this. Three days after the match, he was stripped of the title of master of sports.
Among Tarasov’s students is Anatoly Firsov, legendary and, of course, .
Anatoly Tarasov did a lot to popularize hockey. For a long time he led the children's club "Golden Puck", which became the base platform for the formation of famous hockey players. He wrote two books, “Hockey Tactics” and “Hockey of the Future,” which are still preserved today.
Anatoly Vladimirovich Tarasov died in Moscow on June 23, 1995. So the mystery of the letter “T” on the red and blue sweater in which Tarasov went to training remained unsolved. Among the versions of what the letter could mean: coach, Tarasov, tyrant, theorist and even Trotsky!
The Encyclopedia Britannica writes that Tarasov is the “father of Russian hockey” who made the USSR “the dominant force in international competition.” In 1974 he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame (Toronto, Canada). In 1997 he was awarded a place in the Hockey Hall of Fame of the International Hockey Federation. The daughter of the great coach achieved no less success in skating - she won gold at the World and European Championships, and after switching to coaching, she raised a whole galaxy of the strongest skaters.
MOSCOW, December 10 – RIA Novosti. The ninety-fifth anniversary of the birth of Anatoly Tarasov is celebrated on Tuesday. Below is a biographical information about the athlete and coach.
Soviet hockey player, football player, honored coach of the USSR Anatoly Vladimirovich Tarasov was born on December 10, 1918 in Moscow. When the boy was nine years old, his father died. Anatoly helped his mother Ekaterina Kharitonovna, in addition, he raised his younger brother Yuri.
As a child, he spent a lot of time at the Young Pioneers Stadium, where the Spartak football team trained. At the age of 11, Tarasov went to the “Young Dynamo” school.
He graduated from seven classes of secondary school, after which he received a specialty as a mechanic at a vocational school, and in 1937, on the recommendation of the "Young Dynamo", .
He played football first in Dynamo Odessa, then in CDKA (Central House of the Red Army).
After the 1941 championship, Tarasov immediately went to the front. He returned with the rank of major and, after retiring, became the coach of the football and hockey team of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District (VVS MVO). At the same time, he was also a player on this team.
In 1947, the successes of the young coach were noticed, and Anatoly Tarasov was appointed player-coach of the CDKA team, which was later renamed first to CDSA and then to CSKA. Tarasov played 100 matches for the club, scored 106 goals, and won the USSR championship three times. In 1950, Anatoly Tarasov ended his playing career and focused on coaching. Under his leadership, the CSKA hockey team became the champion of the USSR 18 times (in 1948-1950, 1955, 1956, 1958-1960, 1963-1966, 1968, 1970-1973, 1975).
In 1957, Anatoly Tarasov was awarded the title of Honored Coach of the USSR, and in 1958 he became the senior coach of the USSR national hockey team. During his two years in this position, the team won silver at the 1958 and 1959 World Championships, as well as bronze at the 1960 Squaw Valley Olympics. Great success in the country's main team came to Tarasov in the early 1960s, when he headed the USSR national team, and Arkady Chernyshev became the team's senior coach. Tarasov and Chernyshev successfully worked together for more than 10 years. Under their leadership, the Soviet Union national team won nine world championships in a row from 1963 to 1971, and also became the champion of the Olympic Games three times (1964, 1968, 1972).
At the 1972 Olympic Games in Sapporo, an incident occurred, after which Tarasov and Chernyshev lost their posts in the national team. Allegedly, the coaches refused to follow the instructions of the political leadership of the USSR. The national team was required to play a draw with the Czechoslovakians so that the team from the socialist country would take second place. However, the score turned out to be 5:2 in favor of the USSR, the Americans took second place, and the coaches were suspended from work.
In 1974, Anatoly Tarasov left the post of coach of CSKA, and in 1975, for a year, he returned to football, leading the CSKA football team, which under his leadership took 13th place in the major league.
In 1964, Tarasov founded an all-Union tournament among children's teams, and after finishing his coaching career, he headed the Golden Puck club until 1991.
Tarasov trained several dozen multiple world and Olympic champions. These include such legendary hockey players as Valery Kharlamov, Anatoly Firsov, Boris Mikhailov, Vladislav Tretyak, Alexander Ragulin, Viktor Kuzkin and many others.
The famous coach made a great contribution to world hockey. His experience and sportsmanship are reflected in the books he published - "Hockey Tactics" (1963) and "Hockey of the Future" (1971). In addition, Anatoly Tarasov did a lot to popularize hockey in the USSR.
Anatoly Tarasov - Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, holder of the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1957, 1972), Order of the Badge of Honor (1965, 1968). In 1974, Tarasov was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, and in 1997 into the International Hockey Federation (IIHF) Hockey Hall of Fame. One of the divisions of the Kontinental Hockey League is named after Tarasov. There is a bust of Anatoly Tarasov on the CSKA Hockey Walk of Fame.
In 2008, the USA Hockey Federation awarded Anatoly Tarasov the Wayne Gretzky Trophy, awarded to people who have made outstanding contributions to the development of hockey.
Anatoly Tarasov was married. His wife Nina Grigorievna (died in 2010) was a physical education teacher. Two daughters were born into the Tarasov family: the eldest Galina (died in 2009) was a teacher, and the youngest Tatyana was a famous figure skating coach.
The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources
