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Valery Popenchenko - Biography, News, Personal Life Age: 87 From the birthday of death: 37 years Valery Vladimirovich Popenchenko. Born on August 26 in Kuntsevo - died on February 15 in Moscow. Soviet boxer. Olympic champion Two -time European champion, six -time champion of the USSR Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, outstanding boxer of the USSR, the only Soviet boxer who became the owner of the Cup Val Barker.

Valery Popenchenko was born on August 26 in Kuntsevo now Moscow. Father - Vladimir Popenchenko, a military pilot, died during the Great Patriotic War in the year. Mother is Rufina Vasilievna Popenchenko. It was there that at the age of 12, he began to engage in boxing. Its first coach was Yuri Matulevich-Ilyichev teacher of the Tashkent Suvorov Military School of the NKVD, prepared a number of titled boxers.

In the final against Popentchenko there was the current champion Vladimir Kovrigin from Moscow. In the second round, Kovrigin struck Popentcheko’s defense with a blow to the head and sent him to the knockdown, then there was another one. But in the end, Valery was able to get together and send the opponent to the knockout. At that time, it was his victory in Tie battles. In the same year, having graduated from the Suvorov School with a gold medal, he moved to Leningrad, where the coach of the Dynamo sports society Grigory Kusikyants began to work with him.

In the year he became a cadet of the Leningrad Higher Border Naval School. In the year, at the Dynamo championship, Popentchenko lost to the Muscovite Sosnin. This defeat so knocked him out that he even temporarily left boxing. Member of the CPSU from the year. In the year, Valery Popenchenko won his first title of the USSR champion in the 2nd middle weight and further successfully defended it five times.

In the year at the European Championship in Moscow, he first won international competitions. The Olympic Games of the year in Tokyo were triumphal for him, where he went in the rank of the main contender for gold. The first Olympic rival Sultan Mahmud from Pakistan could not stand the round, the battle was stopped after two knockdowns. The second match against Ganz Joe Darty Soviet boxer won by points.

Popentenko won the next duel with Pole Tadeusz Valasek for a clear advantage. The final battle of the Olympiad in the weight category up to 75 kg lasted less than a minute: the 5-time Russian Emil Schulz champion was knocked out in the first round. In Tokyo, Valery Popentchenko became its owner. Then he won gold at the European Championship of the year. Valery Popenchenko had victories in the battles.

He was distinguished by non -standard equipment. Valery always held his hands lower than expected, worked well with the corps and felt a distance. Later such a rack in honor of Popentchenko. Valery was a knockouter, he died to reveal his opponent with his actions in order to deliver an irresistible and final blow. Immediately after the European Championship won, he left sports for health reasons.

The boxer himself explained that the reason for leaving the ring was the appearance of the so -called “flies” before his eyes after missing blows on the head. He moved to Moscow, was engaged in scientific work, defended the thesis of the candidate of technical sciences.

The candidate of technical sciences in the head of the Department of Physical Education of the Moscow Higher Technical School named after Bauman, associate professor Valery Popenchenko wrote poetry, perfectly knew English and played excellent chess. The death of Valery Popenchenko Valery Popenchenko tragically died on February 15 of the year as a result of a mysterious accident.

He fell into the flight from the stairs without the railing of the unfinished main building of the MSTU. Popentchenko flew down three floors, death occurred instantly. According to the official version, he had a microstroke. Popenchenko lost consciousness for a second and leaned on the railing in Baumanka they were too low, leaned over them and flew down. The assistant prosecutor of the USSR for supervision in the field of state security was buried in Moscow at the Vvedensky cemetery, later the famous deputy Viktor Ilyukhin supervised this case due to newly discovered circumstances.

Popentchenko suspected the theft of materials from the vice -rector for science. Growth by Valery Popentchenko: centimeters. At the time of their acquaintance, this happened shortly after the boxer returned from the Olympic Games in Tokyo, she studied at the Maritime Institute. They met during an excursion in the Hermitage, where Tatyana came with her friend, and Valery with a friend. In the corridor, they talked, Tatyana Valery's face seemed very familiar, but she could not remember how the guy knew.

During the conversation, it turned out that it was a famous Soviet boxer. That evening, young people walked for a long time along Leningrad, a spark ran between Valery and Tatyana. They met for four months, after which Valery made her a marriage proposal. Soon after the wedding, the couple was born a son Maxim. At the end, the family moved to Moscow, to the mother of Valery.

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