At LATE NIGHT TO Brighton-SCOURGE.
At LATE NIGHT TO Brighton-SCOURGE.
The chronicle of a life of Oleg Korotayev, the outstanding boxer,
Stated in the facts and some reasons.
He is a fivefold champion of Soviet Union on boxing in
Light heavyweight, the silver prize-winner of the boxing first in history
The World championship, the silver prize-winner of the European championship.
But the main thing at all it, and that, having spent 196 fights, in 187
He has won. And absolutely already phenomenal result: in 160 fights
Has gained shattering victories a knockout!
One boxer in the world does not have such result! Then -
Two previous convictions, ten years in camps. Its life has come to the end
Tragically.
"Arbat" - small restaurant in New York to Brighton-scourge.
Restaurant Russian, and Americans here seldom look. If
Only somebody from acquaintances will invite to discuss affairs and
In passing to take a look at Russian exotic. However, behind the present
Exotic businessmen prefer to fly for ocean - directly in
Moscow. And it is direct on Arbat.
That night, to be exact in the fourth o'clock in the morning on January, 12th 1994
Year, in "Arbate" was very few people, night vigils
Were inertly dragged by the end. Korotayev sat at a separate little table
One. Its affairs in New York went absolutely not bad though and it is impossible
To tell, that is brilliant. And behind the next table have settled down
The young guy with the girl, they peacefully talked.
Witnesses to that does not remain, and anybody on a consequence could not
To explain, that has occurred, and whether there was something.
Only that guy has risen and left restaurant on street.
Korotayev too has risen and at once has followed it is mechanically
Someone from waiters has noted. Korotayev here knew by sight.
More live it nobody saw. It laid on asphalt
Nearby to an input with the raked head. Heard a shot,
Heard a roar of the engine of the speeding up car. The girl
At the same time the guy have completely disappeared. Neither to, nor after them in
Restaurant nobody saw. And not only at restaurant.
As far as I know, in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia about this tragedy
Have learnt even earlier, than there were news in the American
Newspapers: the New York police has practically immediately passed
The information on it to Moscow. "Authority of the Russian criminal
Circles, the outstanding boxer light heavyweight Oleg Korotayev
Has paid with a life as a result of dismantling of narcobusinessmen ", -
One newspaper has written. Another, - "that Korotayev something not
Has divided with the Italian mafia, and its б destruction - revenge "the Goat
nostra ".
Only all this empty. The consequence, which beginning to conduct FBI,
Has soon choked. In magnificent foreign Korotayev's to coffin
Have brought to Moscow, on Vagankovsky...
I frequently ask a question: that with it happens, - ridiculous,
Tragic coincidence of circumstances? Or law, to
Which the person obrechenno went many years? That at least
To try to answer these questions, it is necessary to understand, what it was
The person.
This big, as if sluggish, and actually easy and
Uncontrollably prompt guy left on arena only for the sake of
Victories. He never fought (boxers among themselves so
Speak), but prudently, masterly boxed, forcing
The contender to lose a head, to make mistakes and eventually
Bringing it to the conceived ending. Blow left in a liver and there and then
Straight line short in a head. After that nobody could rise
On feet.
And outside of a ring it, as well as the majority strong, large
People, was kind, affable, smiling and it is invariable
It is benevolent. There was one small weakness at it
In every respect the strong person: it pulled to
To celebrities. And to them flattered to drive friendship with the known
The sportsman: in Korotayev's album of full photos, on which
It near to JUlianom Semenovym, Okudzhavoj, Vysotsky... Fidel
Castro adoring boxing, hardly probable did not idolise Korotayev after
How that on tournament in Havana has laid the strongest
The Cuban boxer Valeru who was considered as the invincible
nokauterom. In the "Zile", presented by Khruschev, Fidel even
Brought up Oleg in hotel after competitions. For these trips
To Korotayev has flown from heads of the command and especially -
Embassies: instead of bury and know the place!
So, the kind, wide, open guy liked to play a trick,
To pretend to be such gromiloj, and on protection offended immediately
It was thrown up. Somehow time on the Red area went with companions and
Has seen, how some so-called visitors of capital violently
Tried to withdraw the girl with itself. It was was accepted them
To admonish, and when words have not helped, swept in three seconds.
"Visitors" at the sight of militia have run up, and Korotayev in branch
Has pleased.
And was still careless sometimes, it is a little eccentrical. About the such
Speak: "the adult boy". Acts this "boy"
Made worthy the highest words. The apartment at it
Never was, has lived all life with the wife and the son in a communal flat
Also waited for own roof over a head. And when, at last, distances -
Has refused. In favour of the team mate: considered, to that it is more necessary.
Also remained in the communal flat where in four rooms five lived
Families.
Here its this independence is literally in all, aversion
Another's decisions, let even the trainer, in addition here this most
Boyish ability to make rash acts
Fine harmed to it.
The then trainer of a national team of the USSR Anatoly Stepanov suffered
Korotayev in the command only because could not, though and very much
Wanted, without it to manage. I have asked it recently: "Tell, that
Has occurred between you and Korotayev? "" Good I can a little
To tell, - the former trainer of a national team sighs, - difficult was
The person... But at me in the command it always was first number ".
So then has occurred in far, 1972 Olympic
To year? Oleg on gathering somehow was late to a release for half an hour. Together
With two other boxers. Stepans has deducted its one -
The main applicant for Olympic gold! And after all it
To it, to Oleg Korotayev, after a match of the USSR-USA of Angelo Dandi,
The well-known Mohammed Ali's manager has offered the amazing
On those times the contract for two years at a rate of ones and a half
One million dollars! Dundee and has not understood, why this Russian
The brilliant boxer refuses the happiness.
In 1976, on the eve of the following Olympic Games, Korotayev
Still remained the strongest. But he did not know, that that year -
Last in its sports career. Three months were taken away by military men
Gathering, then on it get criminal case, absolutely
Ridiculous, there and then close and at once, almost from KPZ
Send... On national championship to Sverdlovsk. The boxer is sick,
Severe quinsy, it nevertheless push out on a ring, and it, hardly
Standing standing, of course, loses... To Montreal ours
Olympians have gone without it.
To its premature excommunication from boxing conducted much
The reasons. To it only 26 to act and to act. But external,
The latent forces braid, break also this like the steel
Spring.
Somehow after a traditional match of the USSR-USA where it recognised
The best boxer, the admired policeman took and has put to Oleg
Handful of cartridges from "colt". A gift, frankly speaking,
Unexpected, but boy Korotayev has accepted these shining
Toys, some pieces have left to itself, the others have given away
To team mate.
In Moscow him have accused of storage of an ammunition and a distance... Five
Years.
From camps it has returned though and not broken, but already another
The person. The boxing for a long time behind, is not present a trade, to live there is nothing.
Tried to be engaged in business, has opened the firm, began to do
Sportswear, but something was not took.
And in the end of June, 1989 with it there was a trouble: "zhigulenok",
At the wheel which Korotayev, in a tunnel on Majakovke sat
It was cut into the thrown car standing without fires. As then
It was found out, the car belonged to any African
To the diplomat. Oleg and its companion who was sitting next, in
Unconsciousness have got in Botkinsky. To rescue their lives
It was possible only by miracle. But also after that accident
To Korotayev have tried to sew criminal case...
Here so - one to another - also slid. It has left to America and
Together with new future wife Anna has organised
Tour agency. Affairs to begin with went not bad. Together with Khromov at
It its other old companion - Valery Nikolaev stayed also,
The doctor of a present national team. He to me told, how warmly and
Widely their Korotayev - at first received houses, then in
Restaurant "п я п п я ". It was felt, that Oleg liked here to happen.
He treated old friends in a big way, not regretting money. As,
However, always. This meeting has taken place three months prior to
Korotayev's б destructions, it was going to to Moscow and waited for "grin-cards"
That, as he has told, "to go there-here". He wanted that time
To be winded to Moscow for the son, to bring it to New York and
To show, how here it was arranged.
But, as both have noticed is both Khromov, and Nikolaev, was felt in
Him any not clear trouble. Something weighed it.
To ask, however, about what then have not dared.
Later, already after that its last night, it was found out, that
Korotayev in January should receive the big under the contract
The sum for the project. Probably, murder - a handwork of those who
Did not wish to leave money. Probably, it has crossed road
To someone. And what here could be? Khromov with Nikolaevym
Consider, that the Russian mafia here at anything are local
Bigwigs have cleaned sensible and courageous Russian.
But here that sets thinking. Korotayev has been killed
Shot in a nape at a short distance. Street at this time
It was deserted, and to approach not noticed to the stranger hardly
It was possible. And here the acquaintance to whom Oleg trusted, could it
To make. Perhaps, those two - the young man and the girl -
Only a bait? But also someone from these two could press on
Cock.
The answer to a question "who then at night on January, 12th, 1994
Shot at Korotayev? "- is not present and to this day. And, I think, if we and
We learn the answer only it is casual.
... In a life of each sportsman light sometime dies away,
Tribunes become empty. Absolutely other life, in which also begins
Other laws, other people. Kind and strong Oleg Korotayev on
The trouble could not understand it.
Leonid REPIN.
//* an information Source: the Parliamentary newspaper, 5.01.01
//* Reg. Nom. - 1110100024.38-------------------------------------------
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