Konovalenko Viktor Sergeevich biography. Boris Mikhailov: he threatened to kill me
Viktor Sergeevich was born in Gorky and died in Nizhny Novgorod, and this line, perhaps, best describes the fate of the great goalkeeper. Despite all the advantages (and sometimes responsibilities) of playing in Moscow teams, Konovalenko remained loyal to his city and club to the end. From a very early age, little Vitya began playing hockey and football in the Torpedo children's team. At the age of 14, he went to work at the Gorky Automobile Plant to help his large family, but this did not stop his training. For some time, Konovalenko could not decide on his role and started as a forward. But over time, he realized: the skill of playing at the last line is closer to him. During his “field” career, the future Olympic triumphant learned to skate perfectly, which later helped him in his career as a goalkeeper: in his domain he was as fast as a cat. Konovalenko began playing for the main team of Torpedo in 1956. The coaches placed their trust in the young guy by sending him out in one of the matches of the national championship, and he immediately proved that he could play at the master level. All the pucks flying towards his goal that day were reflected. Since then, he has reliably joined the gates of the Gorky club and has never left it.
Viktor Sergeevich joined the national team of the Soviet Union in 1961. At that World Championship, our team missed out on the Canadians and Czechoslovakians, the Soviet players only got European silver and world bronze. From that moment on, Konovalenko, who played three matches at the tournament, vowed to himself to receive only gold at the international level. And he held it back. During his long career, he won two Olympics and eight world championships. The ninth could have submitted, but due to careless statements about the problems of the national team, he was excommunicated from playing for the main team of the country for a year. Not once after his debut championship did Viktor Sergeevich return home as a loser. To score against this man was a high honor for anyone, even the most skilled striker. Konovalenko had excellent goalkeeper intuition, he was collected, cool-headed, and never allowed his emotions to take over the game. A pillar of his team, Konovalenko had an incredible talent for instilling confidence in his teammates. The field players who spoke with him said: they had never felt so free with anyone before, they knew that the rear was protected like armor.
Hockey experts believe that Viktor Sergeevich is responsible for the unique technique of reflecting the puck with the pads. At the moment of the throw, he turned the shield 45 degrees, and the projectile that hit him bounced into the corner of the site, where the defenders were already guarding him. There was an opinion that Konovalenko was even superior in skill to his no less great follower, Vladislav Tretyak. So, for example, Alexander Ragulin thought, noting that “Tretyak is more of an artist, but Vitya is still more reliable.” However, the two legendary goalkeepers always had the best relationship: if Konovalenko communicated with his colleagues Viktor Zinger and Nikolai Puchkov only insofar, then he fell in love with young Tretyak immediately, like a father. He didn’t even spare the guy his “lucky” shirt with number 20.
True, despite the enormous respect at home, the “Russian bear” was not recognized in the world for a long time. The IIHF considered his game too simple and only once awarded the title of best goalkeeper of the World Championship - in 1970. Konovalenko's performance at this tournament was a revelation. In the match with the Swedes, Victor received a very serious injury - multiple fractures of the bridge of the nose. The orderlies jumped out onto the ice, and the goalkeeper, who did not want to leave the team, tried to run away from them, but fell and was sent to the hospital in an unconscious state. True, no one could force him to stay in the hospital for more than a day. Already in the next match, the calm and confident Konovalenko again stood in the “frame”. The game with the Finns turned out to be difficult, the wound, as the doctors expected, opened. But, despite the fact that the question of the winner was decided in the middle of the meeting, Viktor Sergeevich played to the end. Interestingly, the fearless goalkeeper played a significant part of his career without a mask. I had to put it on only after the introduction of new rules. One of the goalkeeper's favorite masks looked like the head of a large bear. This gift was given to our goalkeeper by his Canadian colleague Seth Martin, whom Konovalenko idolized.
In ordinary life, he loved to dance, and did not really like to study. Viktor Sergeevich’s wife said that he never took offense at anything and took non-calls to the national team as a given - which means there is someone better. But he was a true patriot, not ostentatious. When the anthem played in the house, Viktor Sergeevich stood up, followed by his wife and daughter. And his urban patriotism was almost stronger than his national one. Moscow at that time had enormous opportunities: it took the best and often closed the door to the national team for entrenched provincials. But Konovalenko was an exception here too, a real Gorky landmark that neither years nor power could budge. Injuries greatly bothered the hockey player. Sports medicine was poorly developed then, equipment often could not protect against hard collisions, and goalkeepers suffered the most. Once friends tried to count the number of scars on Konovalenko, but they got lost at about five. But Konovalenko kept the pain to himself, and even his relatives did not hear any complaints from him. In addition, like most goalkeepers, he was a man of few words in life. His favorite phrase is “everything is fine”, this is how he answered almost all questions about the matches.
Viktor Konovalenko played his farewell match in 1973. After completing his sports career, he switched to coaching, worked with young hockey players and became a goalkeeper coach. In the last years of his life, Viktor Sergeevich worked as the director of the Torpedo automobile sports palace. Towards the end of his life, his eyesight deteriorated and a leg disease developed, but he continued to work. Viktor Konovalenko died at his workplace during a regular planning meeting on February 20, 1996. In 2007, the hockey player was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame. Viktor Sergeevich was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and the Badge of Honor. A boulevard in the Avtozavodsky district of Nizhny Novgorod is named after Konovalenko. Also, the Automobile Sports Palace in Nizhny Novgorod bears his name, where a bust of Viktor Sergeevich is installed and his game jersey is immortalized.
And the other day, before the next KHL match, a memorial ceremony dedicated to Viktor Konovalenko was held at the Nagorny Sports Palace, where HC Torpedo currently holds home matches. A golden banner with the number “20” was raised under the arches of the ice arena. Now in Torpedo this number has been taken out of circulation in honor of his memory. The President of the Russian Hockey Federation, Vladislav Tretyak, who took part in this ceremony and also visited Konovalenko’s grave, remembers his friend and mentor:
I was lucky enough to play for the Soviet Union national team in 1970 and 1971 and be its backup. In CSKA I wore number 20, and when I joined the national team, Victor, who played under the same number, told me: “Vladislav, you still have a long time to play in this team, so take it.” I want to say thank you to this great man for the fact that he gave me this lucky number, under which I played for the USSR national team for 15 years. We have great traditions: this year we will celebrate 70 years of Russian hockey. And we will always remember all its legends who paved the way for modern hockey players
Viktor Sergeevich Konovalenko(March 11, 1938, Gorky, USSR - February 20, 1996, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) - Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1963), goalkeeper of the USSR national team and Gorky "Torpedo" (1956-1972), two-time Olympic champion, multiple world and European champion . Hockey nickname: Russian Bear. He played 450 matches in the USSR championships. In 1961 he became the silver medalist of the national championship.
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He died in his “hockey” post, being the director of the Torpedo ice sports palace in Nizhny Novgorod in his office. This palace is now named after him.
Konovalenko Viktor Sergeevich was born in 1938. Viktor Sergeevich Honored Master of Sports of the USSR - 1963, goalkeeper. In 1956-1972, Konovalenko played for the Torpedo team (Gorky). He played more than 450 matches in the USSR championships. Konovalenko silver medalist at the 1961 national championship. In 1970
year he was recognized as the best hockey player in the country. Viktor Sergeevich World champion 1963-1968, 1970 and 1971, European champion 1963-1968 and 1970, second prize-winner of the European Championship 1961 and 1971, champion of the Winter Olympic Games 1964, 1968.
In the World and European Championships and in the Winter Olympics
Konovalenko played 54 matches in the 2010 Games. Konovalenko Viktor Sergeevich was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and the Badge of Honor. The famous hockey player died in 1995.
Konovalenko's game was outwardly simple. So simple that the LIGH (now the IIHF) never bothered to name Viktor Lu
the best goalkeeper of the world championship. Only once, in 1970, a journalistic referendum in Stockholm awarded Konovalenko the palm.
Konovalenko did not perceive the words “you are posted as a sentry at the gate” simply as a line from a song. In 1970, in a collision with a Swedish striker, Victor received a
very serious injury. A stretcher appeared on the ice, but Konovalenko ran away from the orderlies. And in the next match - with the Finns - he went on the ice, although the wound could have opened. The wound opened, but Victor - although the question of the winner was decided by the middle of the game - guarded his post, as befits a sentry, until
“During the years of serving with the national team, Victor had Viktor Singer and Viktor Puchkov as understudies. However, although Konovalenko was in a higher class than them, he never showed it. When Vladislav Tretyak was brought to them, Konovalenko’s behavior began to clearly sound his father’s notes. Even his own shirt
Born March 11, 1938. He passed away on February 20, 1996. Honored Master of Sports. Goalkeeper. A student of Nizhny Novgorod hockey. Silver medalist of the USSR Championship 1961. Champion of the Olympic Games 1964 and 1968. Eight-time world champion - 1963-68, 1970 and 1971. Third medalist of the 1961 World Championship. European champion 1963-68 and 1970. Second prize-winner at the European Championships in 1961 and 1971. He played 54 matches at these tournaments. The best hockey player of the USSR in 1970. At Torpedo from 1956 to 1972. According to official data, he played about 450 matches. He worked as a coach for the Torpedo masters team and the Torpedo hockey school. Awarded the Order of the October Revolution and the Order of the Badge of Honor.
Articles:
- Ioffe T. I remember how Konovalenko danced in a squat / recording by A. Sukhov. // Lower sport. – 2004. – April 28. – May 6 (No. 16). – P. 7. – [Memoirs of a sports doctor].
- Rylov A. He was devoted to the club and the country: [on the 65th anniversary of the birth of Viktor Konovalenko] / A. Rylov. // Lower sport. – 2003. – March 12-18 (No. 10). – P.2.
- Tsirulnikov A. ...I was sitting in the basement with a man: [about Viktor Konovalenko] / A Tsirulnikov // Nizh. sport. – 2003. – February 19 – 25. (No. 7). – P. 3.
- Khrustalev, O. Goalkeeper from and to: [about V. Konovalenko] // Arguments and facts. – 2003. – No. 9. – P. 13. – photo.
- Dunichkin, S. The goalkeeper whom everyone loved: [about V. Konovalenko] // Nizhny Novgorod worker. – 2003. – February 22. – P. 10. – photo.
- Khrustalev, O. Man without a mask: [about V. Konovalenko] // Arguments and facts. – 2003. – No. 9. – P. 13. – photo.
- Viktor Konovalenko is the best Nizhny Novgorod athlete of the 20th century: [readers determined the best] // Nizhny Novgorod worker. – 2000. – December 27. – No. 287. – photo.
Links:
- V. Domrachev. Dad. How the famous goalkeeper Viktor Konovalenko was remembered by his former partners. Soviet sport (February 23, 2011)
- http://www.hockeystars.ru - Stars of Russian hockey
In the history of hockey only 34 players became world champions five or more times. All of them played for the USSR national team, and 33 of them represented Moscow clubs. The only exception is Konovalenko. Perhaps he can safely be called the most titled non-Moscow hockey player not only in our country, but in the whole world.
Viktor Sergeevich was born in Gorky and died in Nizhny Novgorod, and this line, perhaps, best describes the fate of the great goalkeeper. Despite all the advantages (and sometimes responsibilities) of playing in Moscow teams, Konovalenko remained loyal to his city and club until the very end. From a very early age, little Vitya began playing hockey and football in the Torpedo children's team. At the age of 14, he went to work at the Gorky Automobile Plant in order to somehow help his large family, but this did not interfere with his training. At first, Konovalenko could not decide on his role, playing as a forward. But over time, he realized that the mastery of playing at the last stage was still closer to him. During his “field” career, the future Olympic triumphant became an excellent skater, which greatly helped him in his career as a goalkeeper - in his domain he was as fast as a cat.
Konovalenko began playing for the main team of Torpedo in 1956. The coaches placed their trust in the young guy by sending him out in one of the national championship matches, and he immediately proved that he could play at the master level. All the pucks that flew towards his goal that day were reflected. Since then, he has reliably joined the gates of the Gorky club and has never left it.
Viktor Sergeevich joined the national team of the Soviet Union in 1961. Then at the World Championships our team missed out on the Canadians and Czechoslovakians, and the Soviet players only got European silver and world bronze. Since then, Konovalenko, who played three matches at the tournament, promised himself to receive only gold at the international level. And, I must say, he kept it. During his long career, he won two Olympics and eight world championships. The ninth could have submitted, but due to careless statements about the problems of the national team, he was excommunicated from playing for the main team of the country for a year.
Not once after his debut championship did Viktor Sergeevich return home as a loser. To score against this man was a high honor for anyone, even the most skilled striker. Many famous players, having printed Konovalenko, called themselves happy people, and this was quite fair. The master had amazing goalkeeper intuition, he was collected, cool-headed, and never allowed emotions to take over the game. The opponent was not important to him - Konovalenko did not give in to either the Czechs, or the Canadians, or the Swedes. He was the backbone of his team, with an incredible talent for instilling confidence in his teammates. The field players who performed with him admitted that they had never felt so free - they knew that the rear was protected like armor.
In addition, hockey experts believe that Viktor Sergeevich is responsible for the unique technique of reflecting the puck with the pads. At the moment of the throw, he turned the shield 45 degrees, and the projectile that hit him bounced into the corner of the site,
Viktor Sergeevich Konovalenko(March 11, 1938, Gorky, USSR - February 20, 1996, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) - Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1963), goalkeeper of the USSR national team and Gorky "Torpedo" (1956-1972), two-time Olympic champion, multiple world and European champion . Hockey nickname - Russian Bear. He played 450 matches in the USSR championships. In 1961 he became the silver medalist of the national championship.
where he was already guarded by defenders. There was an opinion that Konovalenko was even superior in skill to his no less great follower - Vladislav Tretyak. So, for example, I thought Alexander Ragulin, noting that “Slava is more of an artist, but Vitya is still more reliable.” However, the two legendary goalkeepers always had the best relationship. If with your colleagues Victor Singer and Nikolai Puchkov Konovalenko communicated only insofar as he fell in love with young Tretyak immediately, like a father. He didn’t even spare the guy his “lucky” shirt with number 20.
Despite the enormous respect and recognition in his homeland, Konovalenko was not recognized in the world for a long time. The IIHF considered his game too simple and, despite all the titles of the “Russian Bear,” they awarded him the title of best goalkeeper of the World Championship only once - in 1970. Konovalenko’s performance at this tournament became a real revelation for fans and hockey players from all over the world. In the match with the Swedes, Victor received a very serious injury - multiple fractures of the bridge of the nose. The orderlies ran onto the ice, the goalkeeper, who did not want to leave the team, tried to run away from them, but fell and was sent to the hospital in an unconscious state. And yet no one could force him to stay in the hospital for more than a day. Already in the next fight, the calm and confident Konovalenko again stood in the “frame”. The game with the Finns turned out to be difficult, and the wound, as the doctors expected, opened. But, despite the fact that the question of the winner was decided in the middle of the meeting, Viktor Sergeevich survived to the end.
Interestingly, this fearless goalkeeper played without a mask for a significant part of his career. I had to put it on only after the introduction of new rules. One of the Olympic champion's favorite masks looked like the head of a large bear. This gift was given to our goalkeeper by his Canadian colleague Seth Martin, whom Konovalenko idolized.
In ordinary life, he loved to dance, did not really like to study, and only in the frame of the goal did he feel like a fish in water. Viktor Sergeevich’s wife said that he was never offended by anything, and took non-calls to the national team as a given - which means there is someone better. Moreover, he was a true patriot, not leavened or ostentatious. When the anthem played in the house, Viktor Sergeevich stood up, and his wife and daughter followed him.
And his urban patriotism was almost stronger than his national one. Moscow at that time had enormous opportunities and took the best, and for entrenched provincials the door to the national team was often closed. But Konovalenko was an exception here too, a real Gorky landmark that neither years nor power could budge.
Injuries greatly bothered the hockey player; sports medicine was poorly developed at that time, and equipment often could not protect against hard collisions. The goalkeepers suffered the most: once his friends tried to count the number of scars on him and lost count at the fifth dozen. But Konovalenko kept his pain to himself; even his relatives did not hear any complaints from him. In addition, he was a man of few words in life (like most goalkeepers). His favorite phrase was “everything is fine” - this is how he answered almost all questions about the matches.
Konovalenko played his farewell match in 1973. After completing his sports career, he switched to coaching, worked with young hockey players and became a goalkeeper coach. In the last years of his life, Konovalenko worked as director of the Torpedo automobile sports palace.
Towards the end of his life, Viktor Sergeevich’s vision deteriorated and he developed a leg disease, but he continued to work. He died at his workplace during a regular planning meeting on February 20, 1996.
The Automobile Sports Palace in Nizhny Novgorod is named after Konovalenko, where his bust is also installed and the game jersey with number 20 is immortalized. A boulevard in the Avtozavodsky district of Nizhny Novgorod is named after Konovalenko. In 2007, the hockey player was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame. Viktor Sergeevich was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and the Badge of Honor.