Born and died in prison. Dedicated to the founder of sambo

Combat Sambo is a martial arts that was created back in the 30s on the territory of the USSR specifically to train law enforcement officers. At that time, sambo did not belong to the sports disciplines, and was generally considered prohibited for study by civilians. In 1991, combat sambo was opened to everyone and also became a separate sport. The first championship took place in 1994 in Moscow.

Combat Sambo is very different from Sambo wrestling, in which we deal with the demonstration of throwing techniques and the use painful techniques. As for combat sambo, the task here is to use various kinds technical actions to eliminate the enemy's physical aggression. The winner of the fight is the one who forces his opponent to voluntarily surrender, or makes him incapacitated to participate in the current fight.

Combat Sambo today is an international sport that was created in Russia and embodies all the best of martial arts. Combat sambo is the national wealth of our people and one of the assets of our state.

Even before the first one passed World War, a famous Russian fighter - his name was Ivan Vladimirovich Lebedev, a special course was developed for training police officers in the city of St. Petersburg. This course was completed by thirty district guards and police officers, all of whom received instructor diplomas. About itself combat sambo, as a system of training people who are employees of law enforcement agencies, it became known in March 1915, just during the publication of the book “Self-Defense and Arrest,” written by I.V. Lebedev.

Further, sambo developed in two directions: the first is closed combat sambo (as secret weapon), the second is open combat sambo (a sport). With the help of completely harmless fighting techniques, starting from the 30s, they began to prepare young guys for military service. For 70 years now, this type of martial art has been called “sambo wrestling”.

A man named Anatoly Arkadyevich Kharlampiev became a particularly passionate enthusiast and fan of this type of wrestling. He promoted the art of self-defense, demonstrating various techniques in front of thousands of people. Anatoly Kharlampiev wrote a huge number of books dedicated to “sambo wrestling” and “combat sambo”.

Since the 80s of the last century, all prize-winners and champions in sambo have been trained by Kharlampiev’s student, who is a professor at the Department of Physical Education and Sports at the Moscow Energy Institute, Valery Valentinovich Volostnykh.

The rules for combat sambo were first published in the book “Encyclopedia of combat sambo”, which was written by V.V. Volostnykh, A.G. Zhukov, and V.A. Tikhonov.
In March 1995, trainers Volostnykh V.V., Zhukov A.G., Tikhonov V.A., Muleev R.A., Maly A.A. was based Public association, which was named “Russian Combat Sambo Club”. In the same year, thanks to the initiative of the created Club, the World Association clubs united by one idea - the development of this sport.

In 1995, the Russian Combat Sambo Club held two championships - the Eurasian Championship and the World Championship.

In 2002, on January 17, the Russian Combat Sambo Federation was registered by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. All this was done in order to develop and popularize sambo in our country. And also in order to increase the role of physical culture in the life of every person, strengthen the position and increase the prestige of Russian Combat Sambo, which is being promoted to the international arena.

In 2003, on May 23, all Required documents to the State Committee for Culture and Sports of the Russian Federation, in order for this sport to be included in the All-Russian Register.

Combat Sambo is a sport that all Russians should practice. Why? The answer is obvious. This type martial arts are much closer to the Russian people in their philosophy, spirituality and ideology than other types of oriental martial arts.

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Anatoly Arkadyevich Kharlampiev (1906 - 1979) - Honored Master of Sports, Honored Coach Soviet Union, a hereditary researcher of the national types of martial arts of the peoples of the USSR, who created a unique sambo wrestling system and made a significant contribution to the development of Russian martial arts.

Anatoly Kharlampiev was born on October 29, 1906 in Smolensk. His grandfather Georgy Yakovlevich, an outstanding gymnast and fist fighter, spent decades collecting, analyzing, systematizing, and classifying information about various combat techniques, types of wrestling and self-defense.

There is information about the fantastically incredible strength of Kharlampiev Sr.: they say he could tear a three-kopeck coin with his fingers! Also, the Kharlampiev family legend says that once young Georgy Yakovlevich, with his bare hands, single-handedly stopped three rushing horses, thereby preventing an inevitable catastrophe. The rescued woman, unable to resist the crushing charm of the handsome strongman Kharlampiev, became his wife.

Anatoly Kharlampiev’s father also distinguished himself in the boxing field. After graduating with honors from the Academy of Arts, he went to Paris to continue his studies. After some time, he lost his livelihood and, in order not to give up his studies, entered the professional boxing ring (fortunately, the hereditary strength was passed on to him), where he became the absolute champion of France and Europe. Returning to Russia after some time, Arkady Georgievich Kharlampiev founded the Russian and then the Soviet boxing school.

As you can see, Anatoly Arkadyevich, who grew up and trained under the watchful eye of his father and grandfather, had practically no chance to stay away from sports in general and martial arts in particular. Thus, six-year-old aerialist Anatoly Kharlampiev has already performed under the circus dome! And at the age of 16 he was already a mature fighter and a superbly developed physically and very versatile athlete.

The year was 1922... Young Kharlampiev taught physical education at KUTV (Red University of the Toilers of the East) and OSMKS (Society of Builders of the International Red Stadium), and also worked part-time in a Moscow theater - teaching artists how to move correctly. At this time, fate brought Anatoly together with Nikolai Ilyich Podvoisky, a famous revolutionary and military figure. Podvoisky “infected” the talented athlete with the idea of developing a system of universal wrestling.

KUTV gathered revolutionaries from the Far East under its arches. Among them were people from Mongolia, China and other countries who mastered national martial arts, in which physical education teacher Kharlamov regularly practiced without leaving the gym educational institution. Among the students there were also Tatars, with whom Anatoly improved in the national Tatar belt wrestling. He also perfectly mastered the techniques of French wrestling, English and French boxing, was an excellent runner, fencer, and was a highly skilled acrobat and climber. He was personally acquainted with such outstanding wrestlers as Bul, Spul, Poddubny and others. Trips to the republics have become traditional for Kharlampiev Central Asia and the Caucasus, where he studied national martial arts.

He not only studied fighting methods, but also fought himself - sometimes for many hours in a row. The fighter weighed 72 kg, but, being an excellent master, he often defeated opponents twice his weight! The motives of these eastern travels of Anatoly Arkadyevich Kharlampiev inspired the creation in 1983 feature film- action movie “Invincible” with Andrei Rostotsky in leading role. Main character tape - Andrey Khromov (prototype of Anatoly Kharlampiev), obsessed with the idea of creating self-defense without weapons... Finding himself in many difficult situations, the master comes out of them with honor.

... Already a famous wrestler, Anatoly Kharlampiev mastered classical judo under the guidance of V. Oshchepkov, a friend of his father, for a long time lived in Japan.

In 1938, Kharlampiev headed the Sambo Federation, which at that time acquired official status. But the war began, Kharlampiev was one of the first to go to the front as a volunteer, and the development of a new type of martial arts was suspended. Military service Anatoly Arkadyevich was awarded many notable awards. Having taken part in the defeat of the Kwantung Army, Kharlampiev continued to learn wrestling directly from the defeated Japanese, in whose train there were a dozen tatami mats for judo.

After the war, Invincible continued active work on the development and dissemination of sambo in Soviet Russia. The indisputable authority of the master in this field is confirmed by the fact that the Japanese themselves in the 50s awarded Kharlampiev the honorary 8th dan in judo, which was and is akin to fantasy, since it is known how zealously the indigenous inhabitants of the Country Rising Sun relate to their martial traditions and how carefully they protect them from “foreign” interference.

Anatoly Arkadyevich Kharlampiev is the official founder of the creation of sambo wrestling, the first head of the All-Union Section of Freestyle Wrestling. He wrote the book “Sambo Wrestling”, which successfully went through many reprints and was a reference book for Soviet and Russian sambo wrestlers for decades.

Self-defense without weapons (SAMBO) is one of the few types of martial arts that have exclusively Russian roots. It was developed taking into account the Russian mentality, but with the possibility of superiority over other sports: boxing, judo, jiu-jitsu, etc. Its birth and rapid development occurred in the time preceding the Great Patriotic War. Officially, the date of birth is considered to be 1938. Historians attribute quite a lot to the Founding Fathers a large number of people, and are still arguing about this topic.

The only thing that can be said with great confidence is that sambo is a symbiosis of a colossal number of martial arts studied in the countries of the Asian region. Over time, representatives of traditional schools of martial arts themselves recognized the right of sambo to take an honorable place among others with thousands of years of history.

What is sambo and what types of it exist?

During the development of freestyle wrestling, as sambo was originally called, the task was set to be able to use it in any extreme conditions: outdoors in winter, in a cramped room, etc. The country's security forces, for which this type of fight was developed, had to be able to disarm and detain a criminal without lethal results, using painful techniques. In 1947, freestyle wrestling acquired its modern name.

The uniqueness of sambo in general, as a form of wrestling, lies in its constant development. The baggage of techniques used numbers in the thousands, and is replenished every year, becoming more and more effective. The techniques are built into a certain system and are used based on the opponent’s attack options. The training system for athletes of this type is recognized in the world as one of the best. According to statistics, on this moment it is studied in more than seventy countries around the world.

Over time, schools for studying sambo became available to ordinary citizens. The requirement for knowledge of basic self-defense techniques was included in the standards of the Second Degree GTO. At the same time, it was divided into types:

Sports(classical) – anyone can start practicing, international competitions are held, recognized as an Olympic sport, but was never included in the program Olympic Games;
Combat– was originally intended exclusively for the police, border troops, KGB and other special forces. Over time, this type of self-defense became publicly available and also gained universal popularity. But certain applications are still taught only in units of law enforcement agencies.

Sports (classical) sambo

A type of martial arts that involves effective defense during an attack and is defensive. A certain set of rules has been developed. Athletes are divided by age, gender and weight categories. Victory is awarded based on points scored for performing power techniques. Thanks to a painful or choking technique, it is possible to win an early victory in a fight. It can also be awarded for an effective throw.

This is sport in its purest form, in the best traditions of wrestling international level. Present minimal risk of injury. Suitable for those who have a desire to learn self-defense techniques, improve physical fitness, increase strength and endurance. If you decide to send your child to play sports, this is an option, an excellent alternative to martial arts. At the same time, the set of techniques being mastered is suitable not only for self-defense, but will allow you to continue training in such an Olympic form as Japanese judo.

Designed more for offense than defense. In addition to using the wrestling arsenal from classical sambo, striking techniques are allowed. There are strict age restrictions on the use of painful and choking techniques. Blows can be applied with any part of the body to the entire body of the opponent, with the exception of those strictly stipulated by the rules. pain points. To minimize injuries, protective equipment is used: a helmet used in amateur boxing, a mouthguard to protect teeth, soft gloves that do not interfere with grips.

Due to the capabilities of the technology used, the fights look dynamic and do not take a long time, as they often end in knockdowns and knockouts. They have gained enormous popularity in mixed martial arts due to their versatile use in combat.

What do they have in common?

Designed for protection without weapons.
Have one general history and country of creation.
An effective remedy for physical development and increasing endurance.
We have integrated all the best techniques of world martial arts;
In meaning and spirit it is much closer to the Russian people than martial arts.
As a result of training, a sense of balance develops, both in relation to the enemy.
International tournaments are held.

Existing main differences

Combat sambo was developed for law enforcement agencies. Classic look, This adapted version for self-defense of the civilian population.
In Sambo, defense is carried out “softly”, without attacking. The combat type attacks harshly, using all methods of influencing the enemy. Complete and quick neutralization of the enemy is his main task. For this reason, it is often positioned as a form of mixed martial arts.
Study sporty look Sambo is possible at any age. When switching to its combat version, it is advisable to have the baggage of classic sambo behind you.
The entertainment and dynamism of sparring matches in combat sambo increases the risk of various injuries to athletes. In the sports version, such cases are rare.

When choosing which type of sambo to practice, do not forget for what purposes each type of this original Russian martial art was invented.

The concept of “self-defense without weapons” appeared in 1927 in the book of Viktor Afanasyevich Spiridonov, a career military man, who in 1921 created the basis new system, composed of the best elements of various martial arts of that time.

These were the techniques of the combat section of wrestling in clothing, which were used to arm the soldiers of the Red Army and law enforcement agencies. V. Spiridonov and his students improved the system of self-defense without weapons - they developed clothes for wrestling, and began to hold competitions.

Enthusiasts for the formation and development of this sport were V.A. Spiridonov, V.S. Oshchepkov and A.A. Kharlampiev, who drew attention to characteristics national types of wrestling

Victor Spiridonov

Spiridonov heads the first wrestling section, which opened in 1923 on the basis of the Dynamo society. Teaches combat techniques to security officers, police officers, commanders and border troops.

Outlines two directions further development sambo - sports and applied, combat. Opens sections in Leningrad, Rostov-on-Don, Sverdlovsk, Novosibirsk and a number of other cities. Offers competition rules. One of the first is the categorical prohibition of “getting excited during a fight, no matter what the pace of it.”

Vasily Oshchepkov

Vasily Oshchepkov, graduated from the Kodokan Judo Institute in Japan in 1913, and from 1918 to 1926 was a resident of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Red Army in Japan. Before moving to Moscow, he worked as a self-defense instructor in the Novosibirsk branch of Dynamo, teaching cadets local school police. The closed system of V. Spiridonov “SAM” was already being implemented there.

In Moscow, Oshchepkov organizes study groups at the CDKA hand-to-hand combat among military personnel, conducts classes for senior command staff of the Red Army. Works at the Moscow Institute of Physical Education and teaches judo wrestling. Oshchepkov’s idea is to develop a system of techniques available not to a limited number of “initiates,” but to everyone. For this, he prepared a course of lectures and in 1932 recruited the first group of students to train from among them coaches and sports promoters. Already in those years, Oshchepkov moved away from the rules of judo and actively supplemented Japanese wrestling with techniques taken from the rich arsenal of national types of wrestling of the peoples of the Soviet Union. He began to add the most spectacular techniques from national types of wrestling to judo, changed the cut of the jacket, the rules of competitions, and introduced protective shoes - wrestling shoes. This is how it arose the new kind sport, which was called “free style wrestling” at that time.

Anatoly Kharlampiev

While still a student, in 1936 he defended thesis, which collects and describes the techniques he studied under the guidance of Oshchepkov.

Over the course of many years, he systematized the techniques and methods of struggle of the peoples of the USSR. Kharlampiev is the author of many books on the theory and practice of Sambo training, the organizer of numerous referee seminars and training camps for athletes. He founded schools for training athletes in such sports societies as “Wings of the Soviets”, “Dynamo” and the Moscow Energy Institute, having trained more than a hundred masters of sports, candidates for master of sports and thousands of dischargers.

Sambo is one of the young and popular sports, born in our country and now widely cultivated in the international sports arena. It can be said that no other related species sports competitions has not found greater popularity than sambo.

The first manuals and manuals on sambo

First All-Union Coaching Camp

1938, July. The senior trainer of the training camp, Anatoly Kharlampiev, offers to cultivate his own, original type of wrestling and gives a report “Fundamentals of freestyle wrestling”: “...In Soviet struggle freestyle includes all the best elements from the following national wrestling: Georgian, Tatar, Karachay, Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen... Our wrestling should be the most extensive in terms of means of victory, so we are not limited to the wrestling that is cultivated in the Soviet Union, we borrow wrestling techniques from other countries...” Kharlampiev proposes to systematize the experience accumulated by times and peoples. He says that the basis for victory is to take a throw from a standing position on your entire back - “with this throw you can stun the enemy so much that he will not get up.” The main advantage of the emerging struggle is its “application”.

First official recognition in the USSR

On November 16, 1938, the All-Union Committee on Physical Culture and Sports issues Order No. 633 “On the development of freestyle wrestling.” This day is considered to be the birthday of Sambo.

First All-Union competition

1938 The complex of standards of the GTO II degree includes wrestling (for men) and self-defense (for women) as qualifying disciplines.

First competitions and first champions

1938, Baku All-Union freestyle wrestling competition - match of five cities. Teams from Baku, Moscow, Leningrad, Kyiv and Saratov are participating. The Leningrad team takes first place.

1939, Leningrad. USSR personal championship in freestyle wrestling. 56 people are participating in eight weight categories. Champions - N. Kulikov, V. Pitkevich, E. Chumakov, A. Budzinsky, K. Nikelsky, I. Ponomarenko, K.

Koberidze, G. Ivanov

1940 The first 16 people receive the title “Master of Sports of the USSR”.

The first heroes

1941-1945. Many athletes go to the front, the most experienced remain in the rear: Leningrad resident Ivan Vasiliev teaches self-defense skills to paratroopers, Muscovite Nikolai Gladkov trains airborne troops.

Prize-winners of the first USSR championships E. Baev, N. Sazonov, V. Sheinin, V. Salmin die during battles. The first USSR champion Evgeny Chumakov and Leningrader Ivan Vasiliev go through the entire war. They founded sambo schools that made waves throughout the country. Permyak Leonid Golev returns from the front as a Hero of the Soviet Union.

The first popular book about sambo

In the chapter “Advice to Beginner Sambo wrestlers,” Kharlampiev writes: “Sambo wrestling classes should serve, first of all, the education and training of young people - healthy, politically literate, devoted to the party of Lenin-Stalin and ready for work and the defense of our great Motherland. Therefore, it is important that there are more people involved. Set yourself a task: to attract at least three of your comrades to the sambo section.”

First statistics

1952 According to statistical reports, 4 thousand 437 people are engaged in sambo wrestling in the USSR, and 47 coaches work.

1965 The popularity of sambo is growing. More than eighty thousand people are engaged in wrestling.

First international starts

1957 A friendly meeting is being held in Moscow between Soviet sambo wrestlers (Dynamo, Burevestnik) and Hungarian judokas (Dozsa). Our wrestlers win a convincing victory with a score of 47:1.

1967 The 1st International Sambo Wrestling Tournament starts in Riga. Representatives of five countries take part in the competition: Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Mongolia, Japan, and the USSR.

First official world recognition

1966 International Federation amateur wrestling (FILA) officially recognized sambo international view sports

The first performance of sambo wrestlers at the Olympics

1961 Judo is included in the program of the XVIII Olympic Games in Tokyo. The Sambo Wrestling Federation receives the task of preparing a team of wrestlers. The team is made up entirely of sambo wrestlers.

1964 Olympics in Tokyo. The performance of Soviet wrestlers becomes a sensation. Bronze medals were won by Aron Bogolyubov, Oleg Stepanov, Anzor Kiknadze, Parnaoz Chikviladze.

First European and World Championships

1972 The first European Championship starts in Riga. A decree was issued on the separate cultivation of sambo and judo wrestling in the USSR. The first European champions are V. Kyllenen, A. Hosch, K. Gerasimov, V. Nevzorov, A. Fedorov, Ch. Ezerskas, N. Nishinaki, N. Saito, S. Novikov, V. Kuznetsov.

1973 The first world championship in Tehran. The USSR team wins nine gold medals out of ten. The first world champions are G. Georgadze, A. Shor, M. Yunak, D. Rudman, A. Fedorov, Ch. Ezerskas, L. Tediashvili, N. Danilov, V. Klivodenko.

First women's competition

1981 The first Women's World Cup is taking place in Madrid. Soviet athletes do not take part in competitions.

1987 State Committee The USSR Department of Physical Culture and Sports issues an order “On the development of sambo among women.” Nizhny Tagil hosts the first women's All-Russian tournament.

The first film about sambo

1983 Yuri Boretsky is making the film “Invincible” about Anatoly Kharlampiev. After the film is released, the number of people wishing to sign up for Sambo increases significantly.

Combat Sambo

Emblem of the All-Russian Sambo Federation.

Sambo(a compound word derived from the phrase “ myself protection b without O guns") is a type of martial arts, as well as a comprehensive system of self-defense, developed in the USSR as a result of the synthesis of many national types of martial arts and, in particular, judo. It is one of the types of wrestling in clothes. The official date of birth of this sport is considered to be November 16 of the year in which it was published. Order of the All-Union Committee for Physical Culture and Sports under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR No. 633 “On the development of freestyle wrestling” ("freestyle wrestling" was the original name of the sport, later renamed "sambo").

Sambo is divided into two types: sambo sports And combat.

History and philosophy of sambo

Founders of Sambo

At the moment there is no consensus on who is the founder of sambo. Officially, the founder of sambo wrestling is Anatoly Arkadyevich Kharlampiev, whose book “Sambo wrestling” was published many times in the Soviet Union. Anatoly Arkadyevich chaired the scientific and methodological conference of the “1st All-Union Coaching Camp”, held in May 1938, at which the main issues of the creation and development of “freestyle wrestling” were discussed, and was also appointed senior coach of the camp. He was the first to head the “All-Union Freestyle Wrestling Section” organized in 1938 (the future Sambo Federation).

Most sources believe, however, that the foundations of the struggle were laid even before Kharlampiev. The foundation was laid by Vasily Sergeevich Oshchepkov (whose student was Kharlampiev) and Viktor Afanasyevich Spiridonov (1881-1943).

Oshchepkov was an excellent judoka, a student of Jigoro Kano, the third European to receive second dan in judo at the Kodokan (personally from Jigoro Kano). Oshchepkov fell victim to general spy mania, was arrested, accused of spying for Japan along with other intelligence officers of the 4th Directorate of the NKVD, and died in prison 10 days after his arrest from a heart attack. Oshchepkov was rehabilitated this year.

Spiridonov was an officer in the Russian Imperial Army and later worked in the NKVD system. He studied jujutsu even before the 1917 revolution. He headed the work in the field of applied sports discipline “self-defense without weapons” in the Dynamo society.

After the death of Oshchepkov, Kharlampiev became the head of the “All-Union Freestyle Wrestling Section”, since Spiridonov could not be public figure. The study of the struggle of the peoples of the USSR began under Oshchepkov. Spiridonov, in addition to jujutsu, was an expert in boxing and savat (although these techniques were not included in sports sambo as they were dangerous).

Combat Sambo

Unlike sambo wrestling, the task of a sports match is not only to demonstrate the throwing technique of wrestling in clothes or the technique of painful holds. In a combat sambo match, it is the effectiveness of technical actions to eliminate physical aggression that is important.

The solution to the problem of a sports match is the voluntary recognition of one of the participants as being defeated, or through his obvious inability to fight. That is why in combat sambo it is possible to use a technical arsenal from any type of combat sports. For example: throws and holds through clothing grabs, painful effects on ligaments and joints (typical of sambo and judo), throws through classic body grabs (characteristic of freestyle and classic styles), suffocating effects through grabbing clothes (typical of judo) and body parts (this is closer to mixed martial arts), all kinds of punches and kicks (typical of various types striking martial arts).

Sambo rules

There are seven age groups in sambo competitions:

Group	Men	Women
Teenagers	11-12 years old	11-12 years old
Younger age	13-14 years old	13-14 years old
Average age	15-16 years old	15-16 years old
Older age	17-18 years old	17-18 years old
Juniors	19-20 years old	19-20 years old
Adults	19 years and older	19 years and older
Veterans		35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60 and older

Sambo is divided into weight categories depending on age and gender.

Dress

Modern rules provide for the following participant costume: special red or blue colors, belt and panties (shorts), as well as sneakers for sambo wrestling (or sambo wrestling). In addition, participants are provided with a protective bandage (swimming trunks or non-metallic shell), and participants are provided with a bra and a one-piece swimsuit.

Sambo jackets and belts are made from cotton fabric. The sleeve of the jacket is wrist-length, and has a width that leaves at least 10 cm of clearance to the arm. The jacket's tails are not long, 15 cm below the waist.

Wrestling shoes are boots made of soft leather with soft soles, without protruding hard parts (for which all seams must be sealed inside). Ankles and feet in the joint area thumb protected by leather-covered felt pads.

Briefs are made of wool, half-woolen or synthetic knitwear, must be one color and cover the upper third of the thigh.

Famous sambo wrestlers

Today, the most famous sambo wrestler in the world is Russian Fedor Emelianenko, a multiple World Champion in mixed martial arts, who is currently considered the strongest heavyweight in this sport according to many publications.

First Vice-President of the Russian Sambo Federation Vladimir Pogodin. Died on September 14, 2008 in a plane crash in Perm.

Honored Master of Sports in Sambo, World Champion in Sambo, six-time USSR Champion in Sambo, Honored Trainer of the USSR, creator and Honorary President of the Russian vocational school“Sambo 70”, President of the International Amateur Sambo Federation (FIAS) - Rudman, David Lvovich

Head of the SAMBO and JUDO team of CSKA (early 60s), head coach of the USSR Armed Forces team, coach of the USSR national team Georgy Nikolaevich Zvyagintsev

Literature

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Kharlampiev A. A. SAMBO wrestling. M.: “Physical Culture and Sports”, 1964. - 388 pp. Scanned version of the book on the website sambo.spb.ru
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