1. Vasili Sergeyevich Oshchepkov was a Russian and Soviet researcher of different types of national wrestling and martial arts.
21 Facts About Vasili Oshchepkov
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Vasili Oshchepkov was ranked as a Merited Master of Sports of the USSR and an Honored Coach of the USSR.
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Vasili Oshchepkov was one of the founders of Sambo, a martial art developed in the Soviet Union.
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Vasili Oshchepkov was sent to study on the island of Honshu in Japan, where he first studied from September 1907 at a seminary in Kyoto, where only clergymen were trained.
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On June 15,1913, Vasili Oshchepkov received the first degree black belt - shodan ; in October 1917, during a trip to Japan, he passed the exams to receive his second degree black belt, becoming the first Russian and the third European to get a nidan in judo.
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Vasili Oshchepkov repeatedly went on business trips to Japan and in 1918 he taught judo to police in Vladivostok.
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In 1924 Vasili Oshchepkov returned to Japan under the guise of the owner inherited from his father's houses in Alexandrovsk and Booker: under a Japanese law film the distributor was obliged to arrange preferential sessions for military personnel.
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At the headquarters of the Siberian Military District, he was not going to lose highly yaponista and Vasili Oshchepkov left Vladivostok as a translator.
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Vasili Oshchepkov began to try to get into Moscow or Leningrad, where they could provide more effective medical care and have a higher salary.
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In 1914, immediately after his arrival in Russia, Vasili Oshchepkov organized in the Vladivostok circle of Judo, which functioned at the address.
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In 1927, at a meeting in the Novosibirsk Osoaviahima cell at the headquarters of the Siberian Military District, Vasili Oshchepkov made a story about judo, then immediately it was decided to arrange for headquarters staff study group techniques of self-defense.
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Immediately after the transfer to Moscow Vasili Oshchepkov opened at the Central House of the Red Army two-month course "dzyuu-up".
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Vasili Oshchepkov analyzed the bayonet, international sports, martial arts, Chinese martial arts and a number of national kinds of struggle in terms of their applicability in a combat encounter.
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In parallel with the publication of teaching materials VS Vasili Oshchepkov held special courses for officers of the Moscow garrison, and then turned to the job of instructor-methodological Office of the Moscow garrison committee, directly himself carried the teaching of martial arts in several military units, and took part in the competitions Moscow garrison commanders on the bayonet, taking first place there.
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In 1930, on the basis of CSKA Moscow, but through the sports committee, VS Vasili Oshchepkov conducted special training of trainers, which were trained physical education teachers from various regions of the country.
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The demonstration was a great success, then VS Vasili Oshchepkov immediately was invited to teach at this school police headquarters.
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Vasili Oshchepkov died in the Butyrka prison, officially of a heart attack.
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Vasili Oshchepkov divorced his first wife Ekaterina Zhuravleva in 1924.
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Vasili Oshchepkov fell in love with a 18-year old countrywoman Maria Grigorievna from Alexandrovsk, who lived at that time in the same city.
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On September 9,2012, the 120th anniversary of Vasili Oshchepkov's birthday was celebrated in Vladivostok's sports center, with participation of judokas from Japan and Russia.
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On September 24,2016, the sculpture by Peter Chegadayev of Vasili Oshchepkov receiving a black belt from Jigoro Kano, entitled "Fighting Tiger Cubs", was unveiled at the place where Oshchepkov had opened the first judo school in Russia.