Anatoly Kharlampiyev
| Anatoly Kharlampiyev | |
|---|---|
Training self-defense techniques, 1957, Moscow Power Engineering Institute | |
| Born | Anatoly Arkadyevich Kharlampiyev 29 October 1906 Smolensk, Russian Empire |
| Died | 16 April 1979 (aged 72) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Style | Sambo |
| Teacher(s) | Vasili Oshchepkov |
| Rank | Merited Master of Sports of the USSR |
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.