Anatoly Kharlampiyev
Russian martial artist (1906-1979)
アナトリー・ハルランピエフ · 아나톨리 하를람피예프
- Born
- 29 October 1906, Smolensk
- Died
- 16 April 1979, Moscow
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- Sport
- sambo
- Occupation
- sambo fighter, sambo coach
Anatoly Arkadyevich Kharlampiyev (Russian: Анато́лий Арка́дьевич Харла́мпиев; 29 October 1906 – 16 April 1979), was a Russian researcher of various kinds of national wrestling and martial arts, Merited Master of Sports of the USSR, and Honored Coach of Sports of the USSR. He was one of the founders of Sambo, a martial art technique developed in the Soviet Union (his predecessors in the creation of Sambo were Viktor Afanasyevich Spiridonov and Vasily Sergeyevich Oshchepkov). Kharlampiyev worked as a physical education trainer at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East, and also was a student of boxing, fencing, acrobatics, and mountaineering. In 1938, Kharlampiyev presented Sambo to the USSR All-Union Sports Committee, which recognized the martial art as an official sport.
Awards and honours
- Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR 1947
- Medal "For Battle Merit"
- Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"
- Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Merited Coach of the USSR
- Order of the Red Star
External links
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Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.