Dolgachev, Sergey Sergeevich

Born on September 1, 1941 in the village of Mityakinskaya, Rostov Region. His father died at the front during the Great Patriotic War . In 1945, the mother died. Dolgachev with his brother and sister for 13 years lived in an orphanage in the city of Belaya Kalitva .

In 1958 he entered the vocational school in Taganrog . There he began to engage in classical wrestling .

Since 1961 he served in the Soviet Army in Grozny . During the years of service, he began to engage in weightlifting and shot put . Due to the lack of a coach, he practiced independently. He took second place in the championship of the North Caucasus Military District in the weight category up to 90 kg (bench press - 110 kg, snatch - 110 kg, push - 150 kg).

After the end of the service, he started a family and remained in Grozny. In 1968 he became a master of sports. In 1969 he graduated in absentia from the school of trainers at the Volgograd Institute of Physical Education . In 1971, in Grozny, he became the first weightlifter in the North Caucasus to collect 500 kg in triathlon (bench press - 160 kg, snatch - 150 kg, push - 190 kg).

In 1978 he graduated from the Faculty of Physical Education of the Chechen-Ingush University . He worked in the village of Komsomolskoye as a physical education teacher. He independently made two platforms and began to teach children weightlifting. Then he went to work in the youth sports school of the Grozny city department of public education.

In 1992, due to instability in Chechnya, he moved his family to Taganrog . He moved away from coaching, only from time to time he judged various competitions.

Two sons and two grandchildren. The eldest son Andrei is a USSR master of sports in bullet shooting . The youngest, Alexander is the USSR master of sports in weightlifting, in 1996-2011 he was the head coach of the regional sports school, in which David Rigert was the head.

• Aslambek Ediev (1970) - Chechen weightlifter and trainer, 5-time champion of Russia, medalist of European and world championships, Honored Master of Sports of Russia ;
• Said Gortikov - master of sports of international class;
• Sultan Askhabov;
• Kasum Magomadov is Chechnya’s weightlifting head coach in the early 2000s.

• Aslakhanov S.A. M., Khizriev Kh. Kh. Physical Culture and Sports of Chechnya: Sources and Contemporaneity. - M .: Pero, 2015 .-- S. 137 .-- 240 p. - ISBN 978-500086-997-0 .

• Movladi Abdulaev . The first five hundred worker of the North Caucasus (Neopr.) . Encyclopedia of Chechen sports (June 21, 2012). Date of treatment March 19, 2015.