Biography of Papian

Forgotten champion of the USSR. It is difficult to evaluate the scale of events that hid time from us, mercilessly flowing through the fingers and leaving behind practically nothing, sometimes only scraps, fragments of the past. Against the background of more significant historical events, thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of names are lost, it happens that the names are truly outstanding.

Sometimes once documented decays in oblivion, until enthusiastic historians dig up what else can be saved-documents, and at the same time the memory of people who have long gone into the depths of the times. Documents can be considered not only personal or general data displayed on the official form or the so -called “crust”, these are also photographs, letters, notes, books, magazines, newspapers, videos and similar, presenting evidence of the former.

All this, in a broad sense, documentary artifacts, evidence of the events of past years telling us about the participants of the very events. Our historical community also got several of these documents, thanks to his loyal subscribers and people who sympathize with our common cause, and at the same time, we had the honor to tell about the owner of documents, a long -forgotten athlete, an outstanding boxer of the pre -war period, which represented the team of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federal Republic of Republic.

Andrey Nazarovich Papyan. There were a lot of high -profile names, but about them a little below for the second half of this period of global domestic transformations fell a stormy rise in boxing in the USSR. Boxing received approval in the highest echelons of power and became an integral part of the program of Russian physical culture and physical education of citizens.

Azerbaijan did not lag behind the Tiflis box with his Baku clubs, who raised the galaxy of outstanding boxers, both champions and winners of national championships. In Armenia, a large box of this level came only after the Great Patriotic War. Vladimir Engibaryan, by the way, the godfather of the Armenian boxing, Eduard Aristakisyan, who raised the great Vladimir Engibaryan, was a native of Tiflis, but at the end of the forties, continuing to speak at the All -Union level, moved to the historical homeland in Yerevan, where he later headed the Armenian SSR on Boxing.

teacher and coach. Aristakisyan himself was the champion of the USSR, prize -winner of many republican and regional tournaments, a well -deserved master of sports, respected man in the sports environment of domestic boxing. Eduard Oganezovich was destined to raise boxing in Armenia to a competitive level and this specialist not only coped with the task, he gave the “cut” to one of the most talented and technically gifted diamonds in the entire history of Soviet boxing - Vladimir Engibaryan ...

The first among the first was Harutyunov, a photo with her mother. But back in the pre -war time: - Artyom Harutyunov,; - Levon Teimuryan,,,,; - Andrei Papyan is the list of the first three champions of the USSR of Armenian origin, but we will dwell on you at the third athlete. His name is Andrey Nazarovich Papyan. Georgy Vartanov - Polugoves, three -time champion of the USSR, 39, 40, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, all five great Soviet boxers - this is our common pride, regardless of our nationality.

All five guys were boxers from among the first Honored Masters of Sports in our multimillion-dollar country, where Boxing occupied his venerable place and gained popularity every year until the Great Patriotic War began and for some time, for obvious reasons, was not up to boxing. Andro Navasardov, the fate of the first three pre-war-Armenians was heavy. Artyom Harutyunov in the year underwent Stalinist repressions and was expelled from the country of Soviets, going with his family to Iran, where he was born in the year, and Levon Teymuryan died at the front in Tbilisi metro, the Georgian SSR demands an audit!

By the way, with Tbilisi, Papan connects a very significant period of his boxing life, but more on that below ... Andrei Nazarovich Papyan, according to archival sources, including the late directory of Nikolai Taratorin, was born in the year in the capital of Armenia Yerevan, then Ereva, which was part of the Russian Empire. Addition from a note by a boxer ”, written in the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the surname of the boxer is written -“ Papian ”, through a soft sign, however, in a number of his personal documents, the name Andrei Nazarovich is written without a soft sign -“ papyan ”, and I push it away from this, calling it everywhere in this article.

Papian confirmed the correctness of writing the surname - without the sign "b"! Having become a boxer of a half -legged weight category, Andrei Papyan performed at the All -Union level in the first half - the middle of the x. Kraval; Center. Papyan possessed classical boxing equipment and represented the team of Tbilisi Dynamo at competitions.Under the banners of the Dynamo Yerevan team, Andrei Papyan became the first ethnic Armenian champion in the history of the USSR, which represented directly the Allied Republic of Armenia.

From the archive of Alik Enov, the winner of the USSR, I used to mistakenly believed that the Dynamo sports society came to Yerevan with a football boom only in the year, when Papyan finally won the title of champion of the country in semi-glow weight and was already preparing to turn his active boxing career. The fact remains - the Yerevan football club was one of the oldest in the country, it was founded in the year and was part of the Dynamo PSO sports society.

Dynamo football club and confused me. I did not take into account the fact that the Yerevan Boxing section of Andrei Papan directly belonged to the Armenian branch of the Dynamo Proletarian Sports Society, which did not appear in the republic, but in the year, simultaneously with the emergence of the Triye Republic of ZSFSR with the administrative center in Tiflis in Georgia and Azerbaijan.

The encyclopedia, G., actively engaged in boxing Andrei Nazarovich Papyan in early childhood. He underwent training under the leadership of the coaches of G. Alikhanyan and G. Andrei Papyan lived in the city of Tiflis, where the famous Yakov Borisovich Brown arrived as a mentor, who was instructed to raise the Boxing School of Transcaucasia. In the capital of the Transcaucasia, the young Armenian boy Andrei Papan first began to be called in the Georgian Lad - “Andro”.

It was the beginning of the 10ths and Andro gave great hopes ... In the year, Andrei Nazarovich with a group of Boxers Tiflis and his coach visited Moscow, meeting with Jacob Brown at the Dynamo training base in the capital of the Soviet Union. Sergey Tselovalnikov, the champion of the USSR and in the years in a half -headed weight of up to 57 kg of the first serious success in the ring, Andrei Papyan achieved at the age of nineteen, when in a half -fingered weight category he won a bronze medal on the adult primacy of the USSR.

In the year he took second place, losing only to the Muscovite Sergei Tselovalnikov, a year later he again became the third. Sergei Tselovalnikov was a bright representative of the Soviet ring, had the experience of international meetings and Papan simply did not have enough personal experience to control this beautiful metropolitan fighter, the owner of a wealthy boxing arsenal.

Anatoly Greiner, seven -time champion of the USSR, real fame came to Andrei Papan in the year, when in the semifinals and final of the national championship he defeated the recognized leaders of the country in a semi -glued weight - the glorified Anatoly Greiner and George Vartanov, thereby gaining the title of the Soviet Union for boxing. Soon after these competitions, Andrei Nazarovich decided to end his career as a boxer.

For outstanding sports achievements in the year A. As I already mentioned above, ”the outstanding domestic boxer and coach Yakov Borisovich Brown noted the talent of young Andrei Papan in his book, describing his personal coaching contribution to the development of the Tiflis boxing, when in the spring of the year the Leningrad team visited the Transcaucasia:“ ...

to revive the work on the box The championship of the city, in which all Tbilisi boxers took part. Then all the participants were defeated in the categories. The student of Gasparyan - young Andro Papian showed himself very capable. He was only fifteen years old. Soon he began to advance, becoming a cool boxer. His opponent Georgy Vartanov, a technical and athletic boxer, delivered a lot of trouble to Leningrad.

But he could not resist the experience and skill of the guest. Very instructive was the match of the passenger chinese, where Anatoly Andreev was opposed by the capable Andro Papian. Experienced Andreev was considered the most technical in our team.

In a temperamental duel, papyan boldly went on the attack, and his blows forced Andreev to resort to defense more and more often. The battle ended with a draw, and they immediately started talking about the papes as a boxer with a great future. They both impressed me very much - both Vartanov and papyan, and I already wondered in my mind, as if boxing in the ring with them, if such an opportunity had introduced himself.

Here, in Tbilisi, I met and made friends with the boxer Jacob Brown, about whom I had read a lot and heard the ethnic Armenian coaches Alikhan and Gasparyan, who trained young Andrei, were representatives of the Transcaucasian coaching workshop, where there were already good experience in training boxers who became the first numbers of the national team. These coaches gave him a cut, papyan came to the highest level, thanks to the Tiflis Boxing club of Dynamo sports society, the development of which was facilitated by metropolitan masters, constant interregional meetings and exchange of experience.

An interesting observation and a small study was conducted over one of the unique photographs from the home archive now known to you from the numerous publications of Dynamo Viktor Nikolayevich Shilyagin: Pay attention to the young man in the center of the picture! Now I’ll increase: does it take your feeling that this previously not identified guy is young Andrei Papyan?The group picture is dated the middle of the x, and the photo from documents is the beginning of x.

Of course, age -related changes in the face, but my friend and colleague Alexei Kuchin also convinced me that in the early photo it was papyan surrounded by other boxers, at least we both see a young man in a coat very similar in common features. Due to the unique genuine documents, we found out that Andrei Nazarovich was a graduate of the Moscow State Institute of Physical Culture of the GTSOLIFK named after Stalin, a judge of the republican category and a member of the Republican Scientific Medical Society for Physical Culture.

His daughter Karina Andreevna Papyan was also an athlete, but I have no exact information about the sport, in which she distinguished himself, it is only known about the Voluntary Sports Society “Spartak”, which she entered from the year. Thanks to our notorious readers, today we all have a wonderful opportunity to study artifacts of museum significance! Eh, it is annoying that without Papan’s personal signature, but with the autograph of the director of Gsolifka, who greeted the head of the Boxing department of the institute Konstantin Gradopolov with the same hand: apparently, the lack of filled fields is a consequence of the form of papan training - correspondence.

Eh, it’s a pity we will not find out where andro lived in the fifties. The beginning of his work as a boxer judge from the year. From this moment, there were annual membership dues in the amount of 1 ruble, which Andrei Nazarovich transferred to the development of a scientific society. What a pity that there is no photograph of this period in the certificate. Contributions, and possibly membership, lasted up to a year inclusive.

The personal document of his daughter Karina Andreevna, a member of the DSO Spartak, also fell into our hands, I talked about him above: unfortunately, the daughter of the daughter was torn. Here you can familiarize yourself with the points of the internal "Spartak" regulations, relevant at the beginning of the seventies. In the year, Karina Andreevna made a membership fee of 30 kopecks, not densely: this is an interesting page - the rights and obligations of a member of the DSO Spartak.

Judging by the impressive circulation of the membership ticket of a sports society alone, the sport in the USSR of the Brezhnev era was at the top of its development. Daniel Nadzhafi.