Alexander Dolgushin biography

Before the war, Dolgushin did a gold double three times as part of the crew of the double two at the championships of the country. The champion of the USSR in a rowing on a single man, and in a rowing on a paired two,, in childhood, Sasha Dolgushin moved from the village of Klin near Moscow to Moscow to his father. He worked as a watchman at the Strelka boat station. The boy quickly learned to row on a plane, then on a boat, added to boats and chased all days along the Moscow River.

After school classes, he went to the river and transported passengers to the other side. Three years later, he so captured the carrier craft that not a single boatman could overtake him on the river. He played the rowing, not throwing the cheerful for three hours. After school, having learned to be a locksmith, he got a job named after Osoaviahim to the defense assistance society, aviation and chemical construction, DOSAAF predecessor, but he could not leave a fascination with rowing.

He played for the sports society "Petrel". Already in the first rowing season, this was the first victory of Alexander Dolgushin. In preparation for his second rowing season of G. In the same year, Alexander Dolgushin was drafted into the army. And six months later, as one of the best drivers of an armored battalion is sent to Moscow to study at the Institute of Physical Education.

So Alexander Dolgushin became our student. Alexander took up his studies, but did not leave the sport. Already on August 5, Dolgushin took part in the II Spartakiad of Trade Unions. Alexander spoke in a fourth with a steering wheel. In addition to Muscovites, Leningraders also performed in the final race - this team was the champion of the USSR G. But Muscovites, led by Dolgushin, significantly ahead of the eminent rivals, winning 7.8 seconds from them and improving the record of Alexander Dolgshin, as a juggled four with Rulev, another line of his sports gift.

And two weeks later, at the Dorogomilovo water station, competitions began on the championship of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, and the teams of the Academic rowers participated in them. The figure is unprecedented for those years. On the very first day of the competition, Alexander Dolgushin on a loner improved for almost 13 seconds his record G.

He passed a two -kilometer distance in 7 minutes. At the end of August, Dolgushin again won the title of champion of the capital in the race of Scythian loners. The country's championship in the city ended another rowing season. Although excellent students and teachers were attached to Dolgushin, he himself painfully felt gaps in his education at every step.

Five classes were a clearly insufficient help for the assimilation of the university program. Dolgushin decided to go to the rabfak, work, learn, then return to the institute. He got a job as a driver, a profession mastered in the army came in handy. But the sport decided not to quit. And it was the sport that brought him again with the team of the Moscow Institute of Physical Culture.

It was a year.

In England, in those years, competitions between higher educational institutions of Oxford and Cambridge were very popular. An experienced Rogachev was walking on the steering wheel. The race was held on a six -kilometer highway in the Central Park of Culture and Rest. The teams go to the finish line at the same time, but in the work of Muscovites something suddenly went wrong.

As a result, the team of the Leningrad Institute of Physical Education finishes the first. Coach Fedor Rogachev explained the reasons for the defeat of the Muscovites team: “Everything is not solved by the skill of every rower, but a harmonious combination of the qualities of all eight. All numbers in the eight are strong rowers, but different in character, inclinations, but did not work.

The teams did not work out. He did not lose a single union’s championship on a loner and made a “golden double” at the three championships, defeating the steam room at the same time. For the first time in the history of rowing, he became a four -time champion of the capital - on a loner, a two -steamen deuce, a dual plug and a four with a steering wheel. This record was surpassed only 12 years later by the Olympic champion Yuri Tyukalov.

The golden oar of the country, ”said Alexander Dolgushin. Thanks to the victories of the Muscovite in the USSR, a new progressive style of academic rowing began to be approved. Alexander Dolgushin became the first honored master of sports among the Akademikov rowers. In the same year, he switches to coaching work and turns through the Red Sport newspaper to the athletes of the USSR with an open letter entitled “Honorary Debt”: “A few days ago,” wrote Dolgushin, “a resolution of the All -Union Committee for Physical Education was awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.

I turn to all honored masters and masters of sports of the USSR, to the strongest first-halves with an appeal: go to the grassroots teams to prepare qualified coaches and socialists, grow our sports shift ... I am sure that masters of sports will respond to my call. ” From the first days of the war, a volunteer joined a separate motorized rifle brigade of special purpose, became a sniper.

For about three years he carried out sabotage tasks in the special purpose detachment in the Bryansk and Belarusian forests. The first combat baptism received under the city of Sukhinichi of the Kaluga region. In February, my sniper rifle did not fail me.Sports shooting and ski training were useful. In this battle, seven fascists accounted for my share. The first - a fascist officer, I took off when he looked out of the tower.

There was an infantry behind the tanks, and I managed to destroy six more people. ” You knew him - he was the champion of the country of wrestling in half -life. A week after the battle described by him near Sukhinichi in the city of Kozelsk, from the remnants of the brigade, which took on the main blow of the motorized and armored units of the Nazis rushing to Moscow, a partisan detachment “glorious” was organized, almost entirely consisting of honored masters and masters of sports of the USSR.

Alexander Dolgushin also fought in this detachment. Without Dolgushin, not a single crossing of water barriers did. He was especially distinguished when in the spring of G. all night Alexander transported the wounded and frostbitten people through the spread of the Bolva River, and then, when he was provided with medical assistance, on a cut on a narrow gauge he transported them to a partisan airfield ...

After a fracture in the Great Patriotic War, the command of the Soviet Army gave the order to withdraw the champions to the rear. But Alexander Dolgushin remained at the front. He died in the summer of G. died at the age of 30 ... From the "Diary of a special purpose detachment" Glorious "The source of the Museum of Belarus, the Diary of the detachment: on June 2, they began to transfer through the coolant to carts and people were transported by boats.

Horses - swim. They had to work a lot, because the horses went well. Before the crossing of the detachment, they sent Golovin’s platoon to the combat guard on the other side of the river an hour earlier. The crossing was remarkable. Prepared, moved on the road. A German plane - a scout passed over us in a km, a detachment was disguised in a grove. Ahead of the detachment for one and a half to two kilometers rode horse -drawn intelligence, horse -drawn patches on the sides.

Having drove along the route about 30 km, the detachment is located on vacation in the village of Bor. The posts are reinforced, in the surrounding villages we conduct continuous intelligence, calmly. The population met us very friendly. At 2 o’clock in the afternoon, the detachment spoke along the route. We distribute newspapers, leaflets in the villages, we carry out volatile rallies, read the reports of the Informburo, talk about life in the Soviet Union, calling the population to an active struggle with the invaders.

The population welcomes us, admires our view and weapons, they say that the first time they see such partisans. They already know about our detachment here. The commander of the Shestakov detachment with a group of fighters broke the telephone connection on the feed line - a crane near the village of Kamenka with a length of meters. At 3 o’clock in the morning, the Gomel - Mogilev highway in the village of White Swamp moved and stopped in the village of Ryskovo, located 3 km from the highway; It was already June 4.

Having rested 3 hours, the detachment was raised. The wounded and the convoy were sent to the forest. Automators - machine gunners with a number of 50 people. Set up for an ambush behind houses, logs, front gardens. Two people with grenades were put under the bridge on the highway in case of tanks or armored vehicles.