Abramov, Alexander Lavrentievich

Born in Moscow. In 1930, after graduating from a seven-year school, he began working at the plant named after M. Kalinin as a locksmith. He started playing football three years later in the third team of the All-Union Professional Union of Art Workers . In 1934-1937 he worked at the Dzerzhinsky Trekhgornaya manufactory factory , where he played as the right welterweight striker for the first team of the factory . After being drafted into the army, he was sent to the team of the Belarusian military district “House of the Red Army” Smolensk . Before the 1938 season, he was transferred to the Central House of Artists . He made his debut only in the second round and scored seven goals in 11 games. He scored two goals in five games the following season and left the team in June. Some sources have information that the rest of the season, Alexander Abramov spent in Tbilisi “Lokomotiv” , ^{[1] [2]} in others, that Ashot Abramov played for “Lokomotiv”. ^[3] In 1940 he played in the championship for the Moscow Metallurg and Krylya Sovetov , in the canceled championship of 1941, he played nine games for Dynamo Minsk .

After the start of World War II, he refused to evacuate with Dynamo, enlisted in the army and began to serve in counterintelligence. Being part of the troops of the Bryansk Front in the battles of Mtsensk in February 1942, he was first wounded. In June, he participated in battles near the Studenoye station, in January 1943 he was injured during the Voronezh-Kastornensky operation . For his courage, he was presented to the Order of the Red Star, but the award did not take place.

Participated in the assault on Konigsberg .

After the war ended, in 1946-1947 he played for the team of the Moscow Regional Council of DSO Dynamo, in 1947-1952 - in the team of the Moscow Military District, where he began to work as a trainer after graduating from the Higher School of Trainers in Moscow.

In 1952, he worked as a coach in the national team of the Odessa Military District. Since 1953, for three years - a trainer-instructor of the sports and mass department of the CDSA. For his combined achievements in the development of football, he received the title of master of sports of the USSR.

In the 1957 season, he became the head coach of the Kaliningrad “Pishevik” . In eight games, the team won two victories, having suffered five defeats (three of them major), and on May 25, Abramov was fired.

He worked as a trainer in Labor Reserves Lipetsk (1958), as a head coach in Spartak Tambov (1961-1962), as a trainer in Spartak Orel (1963).

In 1981, retired.

Date of death and burial place unknown.

War Awards

• Medal “For Courage” (November 4, 1943) - the assistant commander of the platoon of the 5th separate rifle battalion of the SMERSH Counterintelligence Directorate of the 2nd Baltic Front, Sergeant Abramov, for his courage in the battle for Studenoye station. Machine-gun fire destroyed 43 enemy soldiers and officers.
• Order of the Patriotic War II degree
• Order of the Red Star
• Medal "For the capture of Koenigsberg"
• Medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• Order of the Patriotic War I degree (April 6, 1985)

Sporting Achievements

• Silver medalist of the USSR Championship 1938
• Bronze medalist of the USSR Championship 1939
• Master of Sports of the USSR.

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