Babkin, Alexander Ivanovich

Babkin's parents had seven children, Alexander was the fourth. At the age of 12, he began to work at the Kharkov Locomotive Plant as a student of the contractor of the tender workshop. In 1921 he began to study at the factory of factory apprenticeship of the KhPZ. He was engaged in football, gymnastics, acrobatics, athletics, handball in a sports club with physical education instructor Vladimir Avgustovich Vacek. In 1924 he became the first goalkeeper of the KhPZ handball team, then switched to football, since 1928 - the goalkeeper of the first team of the plant. In 1929 he made his debut in the national teams of Kharkov and the Ukrainian SSR. He played in unofficial matches of the USSR national team with the teams of Finland, Sweden and Norway (1930), ^[1] Turkey (1932-1933). The game of Babkin in matches with Turkey was noted by Nikolai and Andrei Starostiny . ^[2] In 1933 he was included in the list of 33 best football players of the USSR under the first number. As part of the Kharkov “Locomotive” participated in the USSR Cup in 1936 .

Headed the cultural propaganda sector at the KhPZ. Since 1929, he was deputy head of the economic department in the city committee of the Komsomol , in 1930-1932 he was the secretary of the Oktyabrsky district committee of the Komsomol, and then he was chairman of the city committee of physical education and sports. At the end of his football career, he worked at the Hammer and Sickle Factory in 1938. After the start of the Great Patriotic War in 1941, he worked in evacuation in Saratov . After the war, he trained the team of the assembly shop MS-1, continued to work at the plant. ^[3]

He died in 1991.

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