Ragulin Aleksandr Pavlovich

(May 5, 1941 - ...)
With its powerful physique, Palych (or San Palych), as it has always, despite his young age, was called in the team of CSKA and the Soviet Union, did not build his game, only to force single-handed, and the implementation of a purely destructive functions. Excellent vision platform, perfect technique, the equanimity and discretion allowed Ragulin be true designer of the game. Having mastered the puck, he immediately directed the finest Paz partners in the attack.
Born May 5, 1941 in Moscow. Father, Ragulin Pavel Nikolayevich (1907-1991) - architect. Mother, Ragulina Sophia V. (1904-1990) - architect, the daughter of Victor G. Glushkov (1883-1937), hydrologist, Corresponding Member of Academy of Sciences, academician of Academy of Agricultural Sciences, a member of a plan of electrification. Brothers - Ragulin Anatoly Pavlovich (1941g.rozhd.) - Instructor of the sport, gave lessons in the cosmonaut detachment, master of sports, Honored trainer of the USSR. Ragulin Mikhail Pavlovich (1941g.rozhd.) - Floorball coach, master of sports. Wife - Ragulina Olga (1949g.rozhd.) Operates in the Association of Veterans Hockey Russia. Son, Ragulin Anton (1969g.rozhd.) - Entrepreneur. Granddaughters - Ragulina Victoria Antonovna (1997g.rozhd.) And Catherine Ragulina Antonovna (2000g.rozhd.).

Six weeks before the start of World War II in one Muscovite had three twins. They were called Tolia, Sasha and Misha. The war. Sophia V. - was the name of the woman - left the children in the evacuation of the Kemerovo. One day, after putting his sons into a makeshift sled, she went out. Past the man passed.

- Sorry, I do seem to learn, turned to him Muscovite. -You Leonid Osipovich UtesovN

- Yes, I. Came to the concerts with his orchestra.

- Experience: My twins. How do you nahoditeN they are not very hudyeN

- Do not worry. Grow - to be sturdy, - said Utesov. - For I, too, the twins, the sister I have!

Grand Master Soviet music was not mistaken - the twins were really sturdy. They knew the whole hockey world - brothers Ragulina! Especially succeeded Alexander - three-time Olympic champion, 10-times world champion, 9-time Champion of Europe, 9-time Champion of the USSR!

. Alexander, . 51-pupil secondary school Frunze district of Moscow, . predicted, . Like his brothers, . great future, . but not on the ice rink, . Although the twins had successfully played for the school team (at the Frunze district knew hockey MTS, . as named Misha, . Toll and Sasha Ragulin), . - They have successfully engaged in the local music school: Sasha class bass, . Tolia - piano, . Misha - Cello,
. Witnesses said that while some did not believe that Ragulina will thrive in the ice area than on the stage.

. From the embrace of music by Alexander Ragulin, as his two twin brothers (they all predicted a success not only in music but also in painting), led Nikolai S. Epstein in the world of hockey
. Accordingly, in Voskresensk young and trained. So Sasha to the heroic nature of the items added and the excellent skills of, and passion for the game, devoid of straight lines.

. Softness and accurate transmission, . powerful and accurate shot - all quickly allocated Alexander Ragulin, . which in 1962 almost simultaneously invited to CSKA and incorporated in the USSR national team (two of his brothers entered the army club a year later), not only among the defenders, . but among the attackers,
. So, . example, . World Cup and Europe in 1966, . Held in Ljubljana, . This hockey player on the system "goal + pass" bypassed (4 +2) famous striker Anatoli Firsov (3 +2), . and the abandoned washer - even the Boris Mayorov, . on account of which was three exact hit,
. At the tournament Ragulina named the best defender of the planet.
However opponents were pressing the USSR national team at World and European championships, Olympic Games, to pass Alexander Ragulin could. But every encounter with him ended the same - attack choking!

. With its powerful physique, Palych (or San Palych), as it has always, despite his young age, was called in the team of CSKA and the Soviet Union, did not build his game, only to force single-handed, and the implementation of a purely destructive functions
. Excellent vision platform, perfect technique, the equanimity and discretion allowed Ragulin be true designer of the game. Having mastered the puck, he immediately finest Paz napravyal partners in the attack.

. Perhaps Ragulin was not on the ice so excited, like, say, Eduard Ivanov and Nikolai Sologubov before, but none of the defenders at that time was not ragulinskogo fine calculation, coupled with extraordinary composure.
. Alexander Ragulin was not rude
. On the contrary, he always came goodwill. He rebuffed hockey hooligans in their own way: squeezed somewhere in the corner of the grounds at the side once or twice in his arms, but that the rude, secretly struck a formidable defender, started cracking bones inside the hockey armor.
. In many countries of the world audience, as soon as he heard about the arrival of the USSR national team (in our days Ragulin headed the team of veterans is often abroad. Including distant, it would seem, from the Hockey South Africa) specifically went to see Alexander Pavlovich.
. If a team CSKA sometimes internal conflicts arose, the parties were for their permission to Palycha
. Coaches, when they needed to determine the punishment for the guilty, appealed to the same Palycha. He was always a kind of ultimate authority, the officer, who once, like two twin brother, who graduated from the Moscow Regional Pedagogical Institute.
Leaving ice Ragulin became the coach in the youth schools CSKA. By the way, his appearance in his time at CSKA benefited all: the very ice hockey club of the army and the USSR national team. Ragulin worked as a trainer in the Novosibirsk SKA. And today he "я€я?п?п?я?" all veterans of hockey.
Aleksandr Pavlovich Ragulin awarded the Order of Labor Red Banner, two Orders of Honor, the Order of Honor.