Albert Chugunov: “There are no secondary heights” 50 years ago, the hero of this publication was elected as a physical team of Based under Ryazan, in Diaghilev, the Center for Far Aviation, and all free

Albert Chugunov: There are no secondary heights

50 years ago, the hero of this publication was elected as a physical team of the center of distant aviation, which was based near Ryazan, in Diaghilev, and began to devote all his free time to hockey with the ball.

He simply could not refuse him a request for a meeting. Inviting the correspondent in the June heat to the Olympic Sports Palace, the president of the regional hockey federation with the ball Albert Anatolyevich Chugunov said: “This championship and the region’s cup are the last competitions held under my leadership.” With the question: Why are the last? I went to the Olympic. The Falcon and the Airborne Forces team played.

– The speeds are high – it takes breath. The same is an air battle. Is not it? – I start our conversation.

– Of course, the comparison is approximate. But see how Mikhail Trofimov plays. He, as a leading “hockey squadron”, breaks forward, carrying his comrades. It takes on the attack of an opponent, who puts Michael on the ice with an unprofitable technique. The judge punishes the opponent … And how can I not recall the case from my flight practice? On some exercises, I took off first, and suddenly the plane began to roll, silence on the left side – the engine refused. I immediately handed it to the radio so that they would not be released, you never know what, I had to land. The right engine worked to the end, and I safely planted the plane. The engineers immediately arrived to understand, they began to drain, and in it there was water in kerosene. Other planes were checked, in six out of nine, which were filled in the morning, the same thing. It turned out that the laying of one of the pumps failed, people almost died due to this criminal negligence. And wow, no one was punished, but it would be, according to the law, at least declare a reprimand. For such cases, we were preparing on purpose, but it also happened that we had to make a decision in a hurry. As in hockey, in which without improvisation – nowhere …
The Falcon, meanwhile, increased the advantage in the score-Albert Anatolyevich did not need to correct something in the play of the pets, he handed this mentoring this mentoring his first assistant-Vladimir Zhigarev, and continued our conversation.
– I made friends with sports in childhood. He was engaged in skiing and athletics, played chess, tried himself in basketball and football. And how was it, living in Sverdlovsk, not to love a hockey with a ball? Up to thirty thousand spectators gathered at the stadium, despite severe frost. For the people, it was a real holiday, and I can’t believe what it was. On the day of my games, I went to school with skates instead of textbooks and from lessons, I used to run away, going down from the second floor along the drain pipe.
I saw almost the same number of fans at the Ryazan Central Sports Complex, at matches with the participation of a women's football team, when this club was headed by Vladimir Sapunov. Now not that. The entrance, for example, to Spartak, for the game “Ryazan – Airborne Forces”, free, and fans at the stadium are a little more than a hundred. The same picture during the fights in which guests on Spartak are accepted by the men's team of masters. I'm not talking about hockey with the ball. We are forced to play mini-Hockey on the ice of the Olympic Sports Palace in late spring-early summer. It remains to thank the regional Ministry of Sports and the leadership of the Olympic for the provided conditions for holding matches of the regional championship and cup fights.

Albert Anatolyevich Chugunov, who recently celebrated the eightieth anniversary, was awarded the orders of the Red Star, “for the service of the Motherland in the armed
Forces of the USSR ”and seventeen medals.
On the eve of the main sporting event – the Olympics in Sochi – he was entrusted to him
carry Olympic fire.

– How did you end up in Ryazan hockey with a ball?

– I flew away for thirty -five years, alive, healthy and glad that I got a serious profession of a pilot. Although at first I had a dream to graduate from the Polytechnic Institute, the head of the flying club, the Hero of the Soviet Union Levanovsky, who once held a conversation in our class, turned everything upside down. Immediately fourteen people signed up for the flying club. In the summer we were sent to the camp, where the parachute and I jumped. After the end of the decline, he entered the Omsk Military School of pilots, where the competition was nine people per place. He graduated with honors. For the service, Ryazan, the 43rd Center for Far Aviation of combat use and retraining of flight personnel, chose. I flew on supersonic strategic aircraft aircraft, I have the highest flight qualification Military pilot-Sniper.
Russian hockey in the region was then popular. The championship of the region performed up to twelve teams, and in addition, children, boys played. There were nine large rollers. And not only in the regional center, but also in Mikhailov. And then even two were filled in Sasov. There was only one left – in Ryazan, the Lokomotiv stadium. But even that because of commerce, we were not always available. We were given the time from nine o’clock, and at ten thirty we should already free the field. Over the weekend, the revenue from the skittors is quite solid, so we were considered a burden for the sports complex. But we need to prepare the ice, place the sides, the gates, we also occupied the locker rooms. I came to the leadership in the dashing nineties when everything crumbled. Together with enterprises, hockey teams belonging to them also collapsed.
And in hockey with the ball I have been from the age of nine. For the army club Sverdlovsk played as part of a children's and then a youth team. Once in Ryazan, he decided to recall his youth – he organized the Sokol squad, which, as you see, survived to this day.Then, in the military town of Diaghilev, three large rinks were filled, the ice was filled – pilots, serving staff of the military unit, so there was where to train. We successfully performed at the All -Russian army competitions, and in the region we repeatedly beat the wave, a participant in the championship of the USSR. In 2011, the Ryazan team, composed of the strongest players of the region, won the Russian championship among amateur groups. In the final, the champion of Moscow was defeated with a score of 9: 3. They brought two meter cups. Of course, this is only an episode, but it was he who could serve as the starting point with which the revival of Russian hockey would begin in our region.

– But one day you were “obliged” to head another public organization …

– To this I was prompted by the former chairman of the regional sports committee Alexander Mikhailovich Meleshkin. It turns out that he carefully followed my work and already knew how I was leading the hockey federation. And somehow at the meeting he suggested: Come on, accept our organization. I hesitated, because I completely dragged the hockey with the ball on myself, and diligently discouraged me from that step. However, after I got acquainted with the affairs of the Council of Veterans, he was simply shocked: how is it possible that people devoted their lives to sports, but they don’t even congratulate them on the anniversary? So I thought: we are the same elderly people, war veterans, participants in significant events, and are deprived of attention?
In the first place, funds are needed for the setting of work, you can’t do anything without them. Now, if in the regional and city sports committees they laid financing into the budget, I would not have to walk with an outstretched hand. We need a little: on excursions, visiting theaters and exhibitions, so that people have a full life. In the meantime, I have to get them diplomatic. It is pleasant to note that many go towards, understanding the importance of my mission …
Meanwhile, the match came to an end. The Falcon won a convincing one over the Airborne Forces, with a score of 12: 6, victory. Six goals were on the account of Mikhail Trofimov. At the last in the biography of the national team of the All -Russian tournament, he was recognized as the best midfielder. And now he is the best. And the Falcon is the champion of the region.
“Now I would win the cup,” Albert Anatolyevich dreams. – Then we will summarize the results of my coaching work and in the rank of the president of the regional federation. I already transferred one position – the chairman of the Presidium of the Regional Council of Veterans of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism, my closest assistant was unanimously elected – executive secretary of the regional and motorcycle sports Federation Ilya Andreevich Kryuchkov. He conveyed in good condition: the Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation noted the work of our council with an honorary diploma.
And now I leave the hockey presidency: years still take their own.Now you can still save bandy – at children's and youth sports schools it is necessary to open departments for Russian hockey, school classes in this sport would not be superfluous. There is no need to go anywhere for experience: something similar already existed in Ryazan – in the 43rd school, the director of which was Stanislav Georgievich Fedyakov, Canadian hockey players studied in the same class, many still play in veteran teams, work as coaches.
I will give coaching another two years: after all, I have two teams – Sokol and the veteran Sizap. Let someone else run the presidency. I am tired of knocking on the doors of the offices of sports chiefs: they are changing, and my requests and wishes are not moving. Maybe Vladislav Frolov, who has recently assumed the position of head of the regional sports ministry, will move things off the ground?