The hero of the column Conversation on Fridays was Mikhail Tatarinov.

Mikhail Tatarinov: twenty years of hell

1990 Switzerland. USSR national team – world champion! Standing: Vladimir MALAKHOV, Andrey KHOMUTOV, Mikhail TATARINOV, Ilya BYAKIN. Seated: Sergei FEDOROV, Vladimir KONSTANTINOV, Pavel Bure.

We knew hockey players who drank too much. They disappeared completely. But among the stars of the first row – were there any? Memory suggests only two – the great Vladimir Vikulov turned into a bum. Mikhail Tatarinov, the best defender of the 1990 World Cup, went to jail for murder.

Yuri GOLYSHAK,
Alexander KRUZHKOV

And we rocked it for a long time. Once it happened, but then, about five years ago, he was in such a sad state that the conversation did not work.

Now found again. They were amazed – Tatarinov was in perfect order. Doesn't drink. New family, small child. Not today, tomorrow he will return to hockey.

He smiles sadly at his own recent life: As if it hadn't happened to me …

– In the second half of the 80s, there was no hockey player with a shot stronger than yours.

– Worked from a young age. Forty degrees of frost, waist-deep snow, and I am wandering in the dark along Angarsk to the Yermak training. I went out into the yard with the puck, it was barely dawn. Threw over the sides. A roar all over the district, people leaned out of the windows. I loaded the brush. On the horizontal bar, he pulled himself up 50 times. And throw, throw, throw.

They took me to the All-Union Golden Puck under a false name. Ordered to respond to Igor Chernykh. And I got the best player there. Chagas from CSKA, Zhilyaev from Spartak, and Samovich from Kyiv came running after me to Angarsk: Where is Chernykh? – Yes, what Chernykh, the kid is running around!

– Were the goalkeepers crippled?

– In Falcon on the rollout, our own Shundrov from the blue line clicked, as if in a helmet. So his mask fell off. Collapsed – thought he died! The old men, Ladygin and Golubovich, almost buried me myself.

In Dynamo, Andryukha Karpin got hit twice in a row in training – either 8 seams, then 12. The puck pierced the old Cooper helmet. Karpin stubborn, asked: More! He was ready for stitches. I even more so. And his wife is not. She arrived, crying: Stop Tatarinov! And there was a story with Myshkin.

– Sasha Semak and I are young, we will work up. And in Dynamo, Bilyaletdinov is a Komsomol organizer, Myshkin is a communist. He reprimands us at the meeting. We whisper: Vova, we will naughty above the knees … And we start in training – the Mouse, poor fellow, dodges. Moiseev whistles: Go, throw over the fence.

Before that, even with Sokol, Dynamo burned down 3:7, but I scored an outstanding goal. Almost from their gates! Golubovich won the face-off, threw it to me. And Myshkin in the distance cleans the snow with a stick. Hop with brushes – take it out! In the national team, Fetisov teased him: “The black man scores for you and the young Tatarinov across the entire site. Vova, where does this fit?”

– What is a black man?

– Myshkin for the second team started from a black student Velgrain.

– In the Falcon you scored a hat-trick.

– Yes, in Voskresensk in the last round. In that match, Lokotko, a healthy uncle, cut me so that I vomit from Voskresensk to the Kyiv station. Shook the light bulb. But the victory brought us to fifth place. So, the trade union team has recalculations for the whole season. Plus 75 percent. Thousands of one and a half rubles to each! We return to Kyiv, wives are met at the station. Not husbands they kiss, but me!

– deserved.

– The conditions in Kyiv were fabulous. He moved from Angarsk at 16. All that was with you was a potato grid, a pack of Belomor and 75 rubles in a pocket. And in the Falcon they immediately put 100. Until officially, they have not been issued, the money was brought to the boarding school, where he studied. In 18, they gave the apartment. So I am still an elderberry.

– I wanted to be closer to the center. I felt it steeply. He went to the office to Shcherbitsky (the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. – Approx. SE) – The door kicked. And in the reception of Blokhin and the Bubka they sat, waited.

– Blokhin held onto a mansion. By nature-exactly like Bilyaletdinov in the hockey Dynamo. In Kyiv, I was friends with Pasha Yakovenko, Tolik Demyanenko, Andrei Bale, from basketball players with Sasha Volkov.

– Balm has died a month …

– That's what it seemed to have a heroic health. And he smoked and drank, but in Dynamo on all tests – the first! After the game, they bought a nutmeg champagne, gathered with Andrei a large company. Mike Ziko hung at his house, with whom he changed at the 1982 World Cup. Bal, then, scored an incredible goal for the Brazilians. He told us: I looked where the goalkeeper is, and Ka-a-k gave! In fact, so as not to lose the ball, pulled towards the gate, turned away and went back. And behind him is a crowd of congratulations. Flapsed!

– How did you cross with Volkov?

– We lived in one hotel. Through him he met Volodya Tkachenko, who traveled on the Volga without a front chair. He sat down on the back. Otherwise, with growth 2.20, behind the wheel was not placed.

-In Soviet football, the player could redo a passport, a lot for a year or two. And in hockey?

– I did not hear. Here Yakovenko and Dobrovolsky told me that a year older than according to documents. And I already received a passport in Kyiv, there, by mistake, instead of July, they inscribed that I was born in June. Somewhere I will call the date of birth-06/16/66-the people shy away. The devil is some kind of continuous sixes …

– CSKA pulled you from the Falcon?

– Yes, but Dynamo is ahead. I dumped in 1986, when Chernobyl slammed. Vasya Pervukhin convinced: Do you want to walk bald? With Dynamo, everything spun so quickly that he did not have time to pick up things from Kyiv. I had to go by a taxi for them.

– From Moscow. 1200 rubles back and forth. There was no other way to get into Kyiv-because of the Chernobyl accident, all planes and trains were canceled. In such a hurry, he threw everything into the bag that he forgot two gold medals of the youth world championships and a plate, which was handed in 1986 as the best defender of the tournament. With ends.

– What was Kyiv in those days?

– The city seems to have died out. At every step, barrels with red wine. Poured for free.As they said, radioactive strontium removes from the body.

Mikhail Tatarinov
Born on July 16, 1966 in Angarsk.
Defender.
Honored Master of Sports.
He began his career in Kiev Sokol, where he spent 3 seasons (1983/84-1985/86). Then he played for the Moscow Dynamo (1986/87-1990/91).
Champion of the USSR-1989/90. In the championships of the USSR he played 238 matches, scored 84 (46+38) points.
Two -time world champion among youth teams (1984, 1986). The best defender of the Youth World Cup 1986.
For the first national team of the USSR he spent 63 matches, scored 25 (11+14) points. World Champion-1990. According to the results of the 1990 World Cup, he was recognized as the best defender of the tournament, at which he scored 11 (3+8) points in 10 matches.
The winner of the Games of Goodwill-1990. Member of the Canadian Cup 1991 (5 games, 1 program).
The Washington Capitals NHL Club was chosen at the 1984 D drafts under General No. 225. The first match in the NHL spent on October 23, 1990 against Philadelphia (6: 2 visiting).
In the NHL regular championships for Washington (season-1990/91), Quebec (1991/92,1992/93) and Boston (1993/94) held 161 matches and scored 69 (21+48) points.
He completed his professional career at 28.

– You first invited you to the team from the Falcon?

-Yes, in 1984. But from the Canada Cup they unhooked. I fought with Fetisov. In the center of the site I met, straight into the soul. He is my club – on the back! I turned around – and on him. So Tikhonov kicked out fame from training, not me!

– A wonderful detail.

“We were like a fifth link,” I and Babinov, ahead of Kovin, Squorts, Varnakov in front of Babinov. All the guys are “characteristic”, power, will not yield to anyone. Most played us. Babinov said: Don't be afraid of anyone! Well, I was not afraid. The most interesting thing, with Fetisov, was faded after.

– You recalled Bilyaletdinov. Was he always closed?

– Yes. He did not believe anyone, companions shunned. As for the drink – even no conversation, I did not smoke. You go into the locker room – you can immediately see where Bill's place is. Before that cleanly, Tutelka in Tutelka. Habes, laces. In Dynamo, he was the most rocky. Siles are nested. I don’t know why it looks like that now – all has dried. Maybe on the nerves?

– It is possible.

– I didn’t admire Bill in the game. For me, one hero – Vasya Pervukhin. Today I would play – no one would pay attention to Datsyuk. There are defenders who have four eyes. Few people have six. And Vasya has eight! I played against Gretzky, Lemier, Larionov. But better than Pervukhin did not see a hockey player! He rode his back faster than some stars face. Didn't he tie the laces at all – and how did the skates hold on it? I put on the form in four minutes. It enters the locker room last, and on the ice – before everyone else.

“You played with him in a couple?”

– Yes, Moiseev broke the bunch of Bilyaletdinov – Pervukhin, put me to Vasya. And Bill went stupid jealousy. I will not say that Tolya Fedotov with whom he played, a weak defender. But with Bill, they are two “minuses”. Or two pluses, no difference.

Neither Bilyaletdinov nor Myshkin wanted me to stay in Dynamo. But then Yurzinov accepted the team: I don’t give a damn about your opinion. I give a chance to Tatarinov.I ran crosses with me in Novogorsk. In 1990, after the World Cup, I came to the room to Yurzinov and gave the gold medal: She is yours. Hugged with him, kissed.

– Yes, on emotions. Then he returned.

– And Pervukhin is an amazingly modest person.

– I have never heard a swearing word from him. Only a saying: Damn FIG! In any game – a master. At least in volleyball, at least in dominoes.

– Were there still unique ones?

– Vova Zubrilchev, the Tagil Tagil. He studied in Kharkov, did not think about any hockey. He was noticed by Yuri Polnev, brought him to Dynamo. Zubrilchev has a thin club – like a bow from the violin. Put in the top three to Semak and Leonov. So they tore a couple of fetis – Kasatons! Already on the laces they drove a puck!

– Vyacheslav Kozlov brightly painted us how at the youth world championship he was inclined to escape to America. Have you been smuggled too?

– Not once. First, in 1985, in Finland, a certain Alex, a Russian emigrant. He brought a plane ticket and a bag of money: Washington is waiting for you. Semak and I lived, can confirm. So in the KGB they tried. It came to Shcherbitsky, I was excelled in questioning. A year later, the youth played in Canada, and this Alex appeared again. I am not in any. Steblin, the national team administrator, did not move away from me, besides, a step away. He was set to look after me. And Semak found the Zhuchok hotel.

– In the bathroom. By the way, he graduated from the Higher School of the KGB. Then there was a rule – two young players should study from Dynamo there. One of them was Semak. The faculty is serious – the preparation of counterintelligence. Although we have been friends from the age of 15, Sasha never told anything on this topic, he did not show a certificate. Only somehow he said: I signed about twenty papers about non-disclosure …

-You missed the Olympics in Kalgary because of the jaw fracture. Who made friends?

– Bill. I met hard in training. I don’t know, on purpose or not. I did not assume that everything was so bad. I come to Novogorsk the next day, the jaw was inflated, but I sinned on a sick tooth. The doctor immediately suspected something was amiss, drove to the hospital. They took a picture – a double fracture! Instead of me, Kravchuk flew to Kalgary.

-The second chance to become the Olympic champion missed in 1992. He himself abandoned Alberville. Moron! I did not understand what I deprive myself. I thought: There is money. For figs I have a team? Later, Mikhailov and Tuzik until the last were waiting for me at the World Cup, but I did not go.

When he did not get into the Calgary, he began to pupil. Tuzik was looking for me for a week with a cigarette with a police outfit. When I found it, I put the KGB in the infantry hospital in the hospital. There were rehabilitation officers-contractors, all in ranks no lower than the major. And next to them I am the only drunk. The same doctor as Vysotsky sewed up me. Mother from Angarsk called, gave a receipt that in the event of my death, no one was responsible.

– I was sewn ampoules. The doctor said: You can check what will happen to you if you drink. Involve a needle in a finger, a drop in a glass of vodka – and you will see, the blood will curl up. Tuzik did not calm down on this.He took to Dovzhenko, the legendary narcologist.

– to enhance the effect. He was removed a huge hall at the Moscow Hotel. There were mainly sons-nephews of party leaders, members of the Central Committee. Dovzhenko encoded them from alcoholism. Well, at the same time.

– Yes. For five years – not a drop! The first time I tried when I spent a vacation with my friends in Lake Baikal. Ampula acted for another two months. It was twisted so that he almost did not give an oak. After that, I did not risk it, waited for the end of the deadline. He opened the beer and began …

-In the 90s they wrote that the Russian mafia is trying to impose a tribute to our hockey players in the NHL. It's true?

– We ran into the guys. Some demanded 100 thousand dollars per season. The boxer Oleg Karataev stood up. He talked with the Japanese, he said: What are you clinging to athletes? These are not musicians, phonograms. They are hollowing … And Karataev soon shot in New York.

– Have you met artists in America?

– Certainly. Tokarev, Zvezdinsky, Lyuba Uspenskaya … I remember that we decided to introduce Tafgaya John Cordic to Russian cuisine. In New York with Kamensky, Gusarov and Kovalenko, they brought him to the Odessa restaurant. While Tokarev in front of us tore the throat for $ 20, we fed the cord with borsch, cold, olivier, herring under a fur coat, dumplings. John sprinkled everything with Zhigulevsky beer and clarified: Will it definitely digest? Then I could not look for food for a week.

How many adventures were in the States … slowed down for speed. There are no American rights. Well, I got out of the car, I go to the policeman. He was scared. Newspapers wrote: Russian attacked a policeman! KGB!

He sat with Reagan in the White House in an embrace. In 1990, I went with Washington, the photo was preserved.

“Did Reagan ask you about something?”

– Not. That's when the grave was running away, James Baker was involved. Secretary of State. Like made a visa.

– Why did the NHL change several clubs?

– NHL is a strange thing. I never thought, for example, that Casparaitis would play there. And Krutov will not go. I didn’t succeed in Washington, but it’s my fault. The playoffs started, I sunbathe in Baltimore on the shore of the ocean with an injury. Natasha, the first wife, says: Go to the superiors, ask to be released early to Moscow. You still do not play. And I, a fool, did not understand that the playoff is a tsima. You need to be next to the team. If you are injured, come to the locker room, pain, support the guys. They allowed to fly away. But my attitude towards me has changed dramatically.

– In Quebec, where we played two seasons, was it better?

– I really liked it there! It is a pity, I did not agree on a new contract, lost the arbitration. Boston took me under the famous Ray Burka, to the majority. Great contract, bonuses. I seemed to be in chocolate. He caught God by the beard. But the first three matches – it did not go, the team loses. Glen Sater began to cling: You are with the cigarettes of the slowdown … And in the Quebec no one paid attention to this. Gusarov and Gi Lefler on the plane were calmly smoked.And I behaved the same way here. And the sater continues: Yes, and the weight would not hurt to drop it. Maybe you will spend a couple of games in the farm?

But in Providence I freaked out. In AHL, there are six hours by bus. After the match, the youth gained 3-4 cans of beer on the road. And I am a package. I don’t see the shores. And it broke. Gash.

– You had a fellow traveler in this matter. Denis Chervyakov.

– Yes, from Gorky. And also Zholtok with Panteleev. In Providence he lit with them from the heart. Harding in their apartment – he even stopped walking for salary checks. Chervyakov got out for some training, and I spat on everything.

In Boston they did not stand for a long time-they offered to disperse in a good way. Gandler, my agent, says: You will be paid more than 50 percent of the contract. – Fine. Turn off. By that time, I earned a million dollars. Then it is like ten now. I had no doubt that enough for life. But the money ended quickly.

– We look at you, Mikhail, and we think: how many did not finish?

– About seven years. Recently, a large hockey man said: Today, the defender of your level would have a contract no less than that of Radulov! And he, as far as I know, earns 300 million rubles a year.

– After the NHL, you did not try to play?

-I came from America in 1994. There were a lot of options. They called in Dynamo, other clubs. Tuzik agreed with the Germans, the Swedes. I flew a couple of times to negotiations. But he could no longer part with a bottle. I drank, walked … What is the article Twenty years of hell. Will it not be loud?

– Just right. When did you put you?

-In February 2001. The situation was that either me or me.

-Someone said-you killed with a knife. Someone is a fist.

– With a knife. And in a bit. Once he hit his stomach, threw a bloodied knife to the side. It was night, went out into the street, slowed down a regular bus, arrived at the police: I chopped a man. They called: Did you do this? – Yes. Four hours later, he died in the hospital.

– Card affairs?

– Yes, they played. Maps, all cards … They drank, cut sausage. The knife is nearby. This thieves were sitting many times. I took a knife – and on me. I intercepted right behind the blade, pulled out. Here, look, the scar in my hand.

– Really. Was it in Moscow?

– In Khimki. In the morgue at the city hospital. He worked there on a corpse there. But he did not lose connection with crime. I was on his grave, my father -in -law was buried nearby … They scared me that they would take revenge, I would not reach the zone. But there, in the first week, the watchman approached, asked how everything worked out. I told the truth. He listened, thought and answered: You did everything right. But why did you go for money?

– For what money?

– I lost. The entire amount was not with him. He gave the thieves time to bring the money. I return, I hear: You are two minutes late. Well, it started … After the conversation with the watching, the question closed. Immediately a smoke appeared, tea. Plus, the Angarsk guys supported. A malyava came to me to be normally treated.

– If you were wrong – was there a real chance not to get to the zone?

– Certainly. This is in the thieves language – sentence. And all, you are not a tenant.Legends of the Znarka fight in a Jurmala cafe with a hop gang company in 1988 have grown over. But few people know that he was sentenced. He turned his jaw with one authority, and he cut it with a “rose”, the scar remained on his cheek. The badge has already begun to hide, the KGB was connected along the Dynamo line. As a result, the badge himself met with him. We sawed a bottle of vodka and all settled. This peasant said to him: Well done, that he stood up for his wife. He was not afraid.

– Does the Znark have a nickname?

– Young Nikolishin in Dynamo, thanks to you, began to be called by patronymic – Vasilich.

-Yes, from the 8th grade he looked forty years old, his head was barefoot.

– Did you have a nickname?

– In Sokol – mayonnaise. After Angarsk, I fell in love with so much that at dinner he could gobble up a whole jar.

– Fighted in prison?

– Not. I had to understand. In one of the cameras, the kid was lowered by lawlessness. The watchman sent Malyava. Everyone should write from their camera how to call these people. For example, bastard is a very bad word in prison. And here is the one who looked after our hut suddenly rested: I will not write. I stood, washed socks. I threw my sock, I go up to him: Hey, your business is to write! He gave him to the snout. He spoke for justice.

In our cell, out of 12 people, 9 were sitting for the murder. Strict mode – and serious people. The grandfather of the years under 70 was a cannibal. He lived a migrant worker, glanced at the master's wife. He cut it, cooked and ate it. I forgot to throw my bag with my head. And in the conversation an absolutely sane, reasonable person.

– There were aware of who you are?

– I did not advertise. ZEK and ZEK, 105th article. But six months later they learned that I was a former hockey player. I will not say that there is more respect. People saw how he behaved these months.

– In fairness. He defended the one who is weaker. There was the same on the site. The prison in this sense did not change.

– What was the most difficult thing to get used to?

– To the fact that the light burns around the clock. They do not give newspapers – only books. Periodically arrange checks. Masks-shows fly into the camera, begin to peel indiscriminately.

– How did you spend time?

– Braga blew. She is driven there on bread. I already have a useless liver, but in prison I blew up even more health … They played poker – but not with cards, but with dinos with knuckles. The loser hung on himself a sign: I am the weakest link. One evening check. An officer, two girls come in, and the old prisoner stands in the cell, hairy breasts – and this inscription. It is funny and sad at the same time.

– The main rule for a person who first goes to jail?

– Stay the way you are. They’ll be redeemed anyway. You can’t lie. Especially when they ask why he sat down.

– A lot of innocent behind bars?

– Meet. There are enough those who stole a bag of potatoes, a jar of jam. I'm not talking about the drug addicts, but about ordinary men. Not that they are innocent – but there is enough settlement from them. Why keep in prison?

Getting there is easy. It is difficult to go out and get to your feet. I stumbled on a glass. He was freed – and again washed down. All somersault. The first wife forgave me the adventures.Although they were on the verge of a divorce, and did not leave. I came to prison with my son.

– What parted?

– Another lived! You can understand it … I was already in Khimki in the porches with the scourges, in the collector slept.

– Almost homeless?

– Not almost. So it was. Truth must be looked into the eyes. I left the Dynamo apartment to Natasha, the second, at the river station, to my son. I bought two older sisters for an apartment in Angarsk. He won the cards in Khimki, on the left bank. And garage. But he also lost. I also had a three -room room at the Savelovsky station. Stalin's house with columns.

– In the prison, cash needed a lawyer. My money remained only in shares. Gandler advised them not to pull them out of America. I had to give the apartment. For a penny.

– How much did the lawyer cost?

– 50 thousand dollars. But he worked – in the first court, the prosecutor Khimki requested me for 14 years.

– How much did you spend in prison?

– 11 months. Two years remained conditionally. The article was retrained from direct murder to the state of affect. He sat in Khimki for a couple of weeks. The rest is in Mozhaisk. The first month is hard, 17 people in the cell. And then Davydov Vitaly Semenovich connected the connection. Compared to what they talk about Butyrka, the resort was generally become. Davydov and pulled me out of the Mozhaisk prison. Write down.

– He went to the kum of this prison. Thanks to him, repairs were made in the cells. For 70 years of the liberation of Mozhaisk, Vitaly Semenovich brought Dynamo veterans, played with the locals. Kum in line for the apartment is some two hundred-he was put on the top ten.

Davydov is an amazing person! Like Fetisov. I came to glory, said honestly: We need money. He passed the envelope. We need half a million rubles – on!

– Why do you need half a million?

– In court, so much was the widow for the loss of the breadwinner. By the way, I helped Fetisov in the 90s. When he left for New Jersey, there were strained from one of the groups that held the southern port in Moscow. Traded cars through the commission. I turned to my Angarsky – the question was smoothed out. Grew up with these guys.

– How did you meet Fetisov after the zone?

– Came to CSKA. Previously, Masha was a funny fan. And now the dwarf. I’m standing with this dwarf, talking. I see – Nurgaliev, Shoigu are coming … and glory to them. He ran into his eyes – he forgot about everyone, rushed to me, hugged me.

– Friendship has been preserved with Kamensky?

– How much I did for me! Valerka will never turn away. Like Mikhail Igorevich Golovkov. Vitalka Prokhorov. He himself visited a similar situation. The monastery cleared it. Lech Yashin, Zhamnov helped. Sergei Makarov and Alexander Yakushev collected a decent amount with veterans. There was nothing to live on.

– You have your own car service.

“Companion on the hand that I drank.” Tatarinov would rather die. Everything is scooped up. Now it was possible to return his own. But the income is penny.

– Who else helped?

– Glory to the bulls. Also – a golden person. I was accepted in the army palace: Form is needed? A minute later they brought a bag.I just began to train amateurs on the rink of the Ministry of Emergencies. Valery Konov gave me tablets from the liver …

-Drink twenty years! One binge lasted a year and eight months. Some wives shout: My week drinks! And I have a month – only acceleration. He drank a kilo of vodka at a time. I’ll sleep with the girl after that. About Vasilyeva Valery Ivanovich said that one and a half to two kilo was capable of pouring at a time. But I do not know the third such in health.

– Did it reach the white fever?

– And white was, and alcohol epilepsy. Dynamo doctors gave nootropil, Finlepsin. I got into the Kashchenko branch in Ryazanka. I will lie down – let them go. Another on half of this path would have strugged. In foul vodka degrees 28, you drink – pure rubber. How much was poisoned. There is no money for normal money, but a drink is a drink. Do not steal.

– None of the temptation arose? With your lifestyle …

– There was no thoughts! Even during a white fever, when your brain turns off and you can do anything. I always understood that theft, robberies are not my path. I have no aggression by booze. On the contrary, he regretted everyone. I will see the pigeon's dove – I take it, I nurse it. Or I’ll feed the hungry dog, I will share the last. In Novoselki lived in a bathhouse with a friend. He dug potatoes for a bottle of neighbors, collected berries. But when he was asked to drown kittens, I said: Do not think!

– Have you tried drugs?

– Not. Constantly offered to smell or smoke something, but I'm not on this part. There is nothing to say about injections. I remember how in the USSR national team Zakharkin took a blood test from us. The most severe cross, you are running out of breath. When they poked in a finger in a finger, I was close to fainting. And already in a prick … God forbid! In addition, I saw the breaking of drug addicts. That's horrible. For the sake of the dose are ready for anything.

– Were there any drug addicts in the NHL?

– In Vancouver they settled me with the cord. In the middle of the night, he drove the Negro hotel. They sniffed something, staggering in the number. And I thought: How will he come out on the ice tomorrow? But he played normally. The cord is still tightly sitting on anabolics. I pumped such muscles that Mike burst from the biceps. At the age of 27, he died of a break in the heart.

– Have you quit drinking?

– I don't remember the vodka. As if it were not with me. Changed the circle of communication, a new family. With the current wife, anyone, met 20 years ago. Once lived on youth, went to the Contact club. Even then I was located to me, but I only learned about it now. Because he used to be married.

Lyuba accidentally collided with me at the stop. I was in such a way that I did not immediately admit. She came up: Misha, is that you? I put it in the car, drove to the hospital.

– Book story.

– Tolik Fedotov, with whom they played in Dynamo, had an accident five years ago. Semak and I took him from Lobny. A little more-and his leg would be cut off in that hospital. They transported to the Odintsovo hospital, they went out there.

And two and a half years ago in the same hospital, he and Andrei Yakovenko paid for my expenses. Cleaned all. Happiness, there was no cirrhosis. Cirrhosis is the end.Another life has begun!

– Did you marry Luba?

– Yes. We got married. She washed me, she washed me. I brought food to the hospital, then closed it at my dacha for a month. I shoveled snow – I didn't go anywhere. Sasha appeared – that's half a year turned …

My guardian angel is strong, that's what my sister said. But Luba did the impossible. She looks like my mother, the kingdom of heaven. So I met her – and I realized that I could return to normal life. And, of course, I am grateful to hockey friends. I'm shocked that everyone took my problems so close.

Sometimes I wonder if all this is happening to me? Is my son born? I see on the street those with whom I drank. If I have money in my pocket, I will take it out and give it back. I know for vodka. Anyway – ladies!

– Are the cards also in the past?

“It’s a disease worse than drugs. Natasha once took me from the cards to encode. Then the machines started. Casino. You have no idea how much I lost. See my watch?

– Oil workers from Angarsk gave a million two hundred worth. And I bought a Rolex President in Washington. The cards were gone – in half an hour. He took it off his hand and threw it on the table. Here is the chain on me – 250 grams. And the former was 300! She also went to cards.

– Did you fall under a real cheater?

– That's when the clock lost. Section me completely. I'm sober, I dealt the cards myself. I had a deck in my hands. Then it turned out that she was not alone, they worked together. Their deck had the same shirt. And this man is in the top ten in the Union, he has a Pioneer rattle.

– What did they play?

– In the storm, siku. I can move the cards myself – you won't notice. I will distribute it for three or four so that everything will be as I want. Haven't played in a long time though.

What is your new day like?

– Six months ago, I was elected chairman of the ice hockey federation of the Irkutsk region. It is necessary to fly to Irkutsk, put a signature. There is accreditation. Tretyak and Fesyuk interceded for me. My adviser will be Konstantin Zaitsev, an influential person in the region, the chief tax officer. Deputy – lawyer Vadim Gordin. We want to do a lot differently.

– Here is Kamensky – the president of Atlanta and the chairman of the hockey federation of the Moscow region. I hope that the same will happen to me in the Irkutsk region. I will lead Ermak and regional hockey. The arena of Angarsk will move to the region. Governor Sergei Eroshchenko supports me. Tretiak – two hands for.

– So long ago the issue could be resolved.

– In April, the former mayor of Angarsk invited: Will you be the president of the club? The team needs to look for money. The city-forming enterprise is Rosneft. In order to reach Sechin, I went to Tretyak, Fedorov … Soon a positive answer – Ermak goes under the wing of CSKA!

– What's next?

– Fedorov phoned the mayor of Angarsk in my presence. We even talked about the boarding school, otherwise our kids run around barefoot. I arrive in Angarsk happy. And there I hear: “We don’t want to have business with CSKA. We signed an agreement with Omsk, their Hawks are the champions of Russia. Let Sechin send money to our plant, we will arrange it ourselves.And you, Mikhail Vladimirovich, thank you and goodbye … As a puppy was kicked out. I was again to Moscow, I told everything to Tretyaka.

– So, now – the second call?

– Yes. But I will obey the governor directly. We do not need intermediaries. Arena in the city for 7 thousand, all the time with a bit. A town the size of Khimki.

– Ready to move there?

– The whole family is ready. We will live in Irkutsk. Through the Ermak from Rosneft, the entire hockey region can eat. I will pull the local guys – Krivokrasov, Berdnikov …

– Are you sure that there is no return to your previous life?

– More than. Now I have a completely different head. Yes, I was younger for twenty years! I dream of doing my favorite thing – hockey. Make benefits, help fellow countrymen, honestly look into their eyes. And I definitely will not return to that life. I understand that this is a one -way ticket.