Konstantin Aleksandrovich Andrianov ( February 16, 1910 - January 19, 1988 ) - Soviet sports functionary, an active figure in the Olympic movement. The first chairman of the USSR Olympic Committee ( 1951 - 1975 ), a member of the International Olympic Committee ( 1951 - 1988 ), a member of its executive committee ( 1962 - 1974 ) and vice president ( 1966 - 1970 ) [1] .
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| Successor | Sergey Pavlovich Pavlov | ||||||
| Birth | February 16, 1910 Moscow , USSR | ||||||
| Death | January 19, 1988 (aged 77) Moscow , USSR | ||||||
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Biography
Born February 16, 1910 . From 1938 to 1941, he served as chairman of the Moscow City Committee for Physical Culture and Sports, after which he was appointed 1st deputy chairman of the USSR Sports Committee and worked in this post until 1958 . Along with state activities, he worked in some sports organizations. So, from 1949 to 1950, he was chairman of the All-Union Football Section.
The creation of the USSR Olympic team is associated with the name of Andrianov. For a long time, the Soviet Union was outside the Olympic movement, but in 1950 the Organizing Committee of the XV Olympic Games in Helsinki sent an official invitation to Moscow to participate in the upcoming Games, and it was accepted. On April 23, 1951, a constituent assembly was held in Moscow, on which the USSR Olympic Committee was founded, and Konstantin Andrianov was elected its chairman, and therefore a telegram was sent to the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee :
“We inform you that the Olympic Committee has been formed in the USSR. The USSR Olympic Committee agrees with the IOC Charter and declares its accession to the International Olympic Committee. We know that the IOC session will be held on May 3-6, and we want to send our representatives. We kindly ask you to inform by telegraph the agenda of the IOC session. Please approve our accession to the IOC at the May session. Appoint Konstantin Andrianov, Chairman of the USSR Olympic Committee, a member of the IOC. Address of the USSR Olympic Committee: Moscow, Skatterny, 4. On behalf of the USSR Olympic Committee, Executive Secretary Sobolev . "
- Historical background on the official website of the Russian Olympic Committee [2]
In response to this telegram, the IOC President Siegfried Edstrom sent an invitation for Andrianov and Sobolev to the opening ceremony of the IOC session, scheduled for May 6 in the Great Hall of the Vienna Philharmonic.
May 3, 1951 in Vienna , in the headquarters of the Olympic Committee of Austria , a meeting of the IOC Executive Committee was held. Hosted by Siegfried Edstrom, as well as Executive Committee members Avery Brandage ( USA ), Count Alberto Bonacossa ( Italy ), Colonel Peter-Wilhelmus Sharro ( Netherlands ), Arman Massard ( France ), IOC Chancellor Otto Mayer ( Switzerland ) and Angelo Bolognaki ( Greece) ) decided to consider recognizing the NOC of the USSR and accepting the candidacy of Konstantin Andrianov, chairman of the Olympic Committee of the USSR, as a member of the IOC from the USSR .
On May 7, 1951 , at the 46th session of the IOC, the USSR Olympic Committee was recognized by the International Olympic Committee, and Konstantin Andrianov was elected a member of the IOC for the USSR. He was continuously a member of the IOC until his own death in 1988 . From 1962 to 1974 he was also a member of the executive committee of this organization, and from 1966 to 1970 - vice president and 1st vice president of the IOC.
Andrianov's international activity did not preclude his work on the USSR Olympic Committee - until 1975 he was its chairman, after which he was appointed deputy chairman of the USSR NOC.
He made a significant contribution to the organization of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, being an employee of the Organizing Committee of the Olympics-80.
He died on January 19, 1988 in Moscow , was buried in the 10th section of the Kuntsevo cemetery .
Rewards
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (04/27/1957)
- Order of Friendship of Peoples (02.15.1980) [3]
- Two orders of the Badge of Honor
- Silver Olympic Order ( 1988 ) [4]
Notes
- ↑ All the leaders of the Olympic Committee of our country // Soviet Sport
- ↑ Great traditions of Soviet victories // Russian Olympic Committee website
- ↑ Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 15, 1980 No. 1569 — X “On the Awarding of Comrade Andrianova K. A. Order of Friendship of Peoples ”//“ Vedomosti of the Supreme Council of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ”. - No. 8 (2030) of February 20, 1980. - Art. 151.
- ↑ Olympic Order // Olympic Encyclopedia (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment February 18, 2014. Archived February 22, 2014.
Literature
- Moscow encyclopedia. Volume 1: Faces of Moscow. Book 6: AZ. Additions. M .: Moscow Textbooks OJSC, 2014