Pyotr Yegorovich Popov (born 1943 ) - Soviet and Russian athlete and sports organizer; USSR master of sports in freestyle wrestling. [1] .
| Popov Peter Egorovich | |||
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| Date of Birth | 1943 | ||
| Place of Birth | Kündiai Suntar district , Yakut ASSR , USSR | ||
| Citizenship |  USSR →  Russia | ||
| Occupation | sportsman, sportsman | ||
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He is the author of books on free-style wrestling in Yakutia: “Not one step back”, “The first masters of sports in free-style wrestling from Yakutia”, “Yakut wrestlers are the champions of Russia”. [2]
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Biography
He was born in May 1943 in the Kündäyinsky settlement of the Suntar region of the Yakut ASSR. [3]
He began to fight at the age of 14 under the guidance of a school physical education teacher S. A. Son and at the age of 18 he fulfilled the norm of the USSR master of sports. Then he trained under the guidance of the honored trainer of the RSFSR and the Yakut ASSR Nikolai Volkov . [1] [4] The first of the Yakut fighters won the silver medal of the USSR championship among youths (1961, Kaliningrad ); the first champion of the RSFSR among the youth of the Sakha people (1964, Moscow ). He became the champion of the RSFSR (1965, Kaliningrad ); He was the winner of the USSR team championship as part of CSKA (1968, Gorky ), as well as the winner (1968, Frunze ) and the silver medalist (1963, Kaunas ) of the USSR zone championship. Two-time champion of the Far East zone (1963, 1969); winner of the international tournament in Sofia (1968), silver medalist of the Spartakiad of Clubs of Friendly Armies (1967, Ulan Bator ). He was a three-time champion of the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and the Chita Region, a repeated champion of the Trans-Baikal Military District and the Armed Forces of the USSR.
After graduating from a sports career, he graduated from the historical (1971) and agricultural (1985) faculties of Yakutsk State University (now Northeastern Federal University ); in 1979 - Khabarovsk Higher Party School. He worked as an instructor of the Union of sports societies and organizations, a senior instructor of the Council of Ministers of the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, was released secretary of the party committee of the Gorny state farm, instructor of the regional committee of the CPSU. After that, P.E. Popov worked in the Far North as second secretary of the Allaihovskiy district committee of the CPSU and chairman of the district executive committee. Then he was appointed first deputy chairman and chairman of the Committee on Sport and Physical Education of the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, headed the newly created Ministry of Physical Culture and Sports. Under the leadership of Popov in Yakutsk were held - the RSFSR championship in freestyle wrestling (1991, a friendly match between the national teams of Japan, Mongolia, Czechoslovakia, Khakassia and Yakutia (1992), the championship of Siberia and the Far East (1992), as well as a number of match meetings in freestyle wrestling and After graduating from a career as a spore organizer, before retiring, Peter Yegorovich worked as the head of the Personnel Policy Department of Yakutskenergo .
The elder brother of P.E. Popov - Vladimir , was also an athlete-wrestler, Master of Sports of the USSR , and a repeated champion of the Yakut ASSR in the heavy weight category. [one]
Merit and rewards
- Honored Worker of the National Economy of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (2001).
- He was awarded the honorary sign "Civil Valor" (2008).
- Honorary Citizen of the Suntar ulus.