Bodunov, Alexander Ivanovich

Born in Moscow. He started playing in 1965 in the CSKA sports school. In those days, getting into the foundation of CSKA was very difficult, and after the subsidiary team of SKA-Moscow Military District in 1971, Alexander Bodunov, along with his future ^{[ clarified ]} by link partners Vyacheslav Anisin and Yuri Lebedev were transferred to Krylia Sovetov . The initiator ^{[ clarify ] the} establishment of the link was Boris Pavlovich Kulagin , who headed the "Wings of the Soviets" in the midst of the 1970/71 season. By that time, the team had long since slipped into the category of middle peasants, had not won the All-Union Championship medals for ten years, had no world-class players in the line-up, and Kulagin first of all took up the selection. In the summer of 1971, Krylia Sovetov joined up with several talented players who did not form the basis of CSKA. The success was not long in coming, the team literally took off to the top places of the USSR championships. And in the 1973/74 season, the height in the form of gold in the USSR championship was resigned, to which the team no longer rose. The striking force of the team was the three of the technician Anisin with fast Lebedev and Bodunov on the edges. In the championship season, she won the Labor prize , scoring 64 goals for her opponents. And for the first time in this combination, Kulagin used this top three in the national team in the third match of the famous Super Series — 1972 . The link was scored two goals that day - with the score 2: 4, the third and fourth. Since then, for two years, the troika has played in the national team continuously, and Lebedev and Anisin, however, already in different levels, and participated in the 1975 world championship .

With the departure of Boris Kulagin from the Krylya Sovetov team and a number of leading players, the team’s success has waned. True, Alexander Bodunov continued to score a lot, as before. The subsequent transfer to Spartak , one might say, did not benefit either the club or the player. After two seasons in "Spartacus" followed by a return to the "Wings", but only for one season.

Alexander Bodunov, even with two world champion titles, never received the title of Honored Master of Sports of the USSR . According to the "Soviet Sport", in 2003 he received the title of Honored Master of Sports of Russia ^[1] .

In 1996 he became the first coach of the newly established Vityaz near Moscow ^[2] . In January 2005, he again headed this team; at the end of the 2004/05 season, Vityaz left the second-largest division in the Super League. In the offseason of 2005, the team was headed by Honored Coach of the USSR Anatoly Bogdanov, but in October he was dismissed; most of the 2005/06 season, Vityaz's head coach was again Bodunov. In the 2006/07 and 2008/09 seasons Bodunov coached the second Vityaz team ^[3] .

He died on May 11, 2017, at his dacha near the village of Tuchkovo (Ruzsky urban district, Moscow region).

• Junior European Champion - 1970.
• Champion of the World Winter Universiade - 1972.
• World and European Champion - 1973 , 1974 .
• Member of the Super Series — 1972 , 1974
• USSR Champion - 1974.
• Second prize winner of the USSR championship - 1975.
• The third prize winner of the USSR Championship - 1973, 1978, 1980.
• USSR Cup Winner 1974.
• Winner of the European Cup 1974-1975. (the final was held in 1977)
• In the World and European Championships - 16 matches, 7 goals.
• In the USSR Championships - 378 matches, 206 goals.

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• Bodunov Alexander Ivanovich // Online encyclopedia CSKA