About the coach
It is gratifying when athletes appreciate and thank their coaches for their work. For example, Levin Vasily Mikhailovich KMS, the champion of Kaz SSR DSO “Burevestnik” dedicated a book to his coach Stanislav Petrovich Saveliev called “Coach”. Everyone can familiarize themselves with this book, which Vasily Mikhailovich personally presented to the school of KSU “East Kazakhstan Regional Specialized Children’s and Youth School of the Olympic Reserve in Athletics” of the UFK and the East Kazakhstan Region.
Excerpts from the book of memoirs of Irina Savelyeva’s younger sister. “Stanislav Petrovich Saveliev was a coach with a capital letter, a teacher, mentor and just a friend, and even for some he was a second father. Stanislav Petrovich has done a lot to popularize the sport. Take for example his club Kolobok. A lot of people went to classes at the club. He gave a lecture on the radio about the benefits of running. He was a professional, studied a lot of different literature – both sports and medical. He studied the running nomograms of famous runners of that time – Paavo Nurmi, Lasse Viren, Vladimir Kutz, Peter Snell, Peter Bolotnikov, Lyudmila Bragina and many others. I even bought a movie projector to watch and study running techniques – modern technology at that time. And then he taught his students how to put the foot correctly, how to pull the hip correctly, how to hold the back. He is like a sculptor, like an artist, as if he was sculpting a runner – hovering over the track, flying towards the goal. His mathematical mindset helped him analyze everything, systematize and build his own method of training Champions. But the most important thing is not that, but what he could see and feel, knew how to prepare for an athlete and tried to convey to him in order to achieve results, avoiding injuries, overloads. Based on many years of experience, everything was purposefully balanced, from training, loads and exercises, to rest and nutrition of the athlete.”
Stanislav Petrovich was distinguished by great kindness, sincerity, fairness and dedication to his work and was just a talented person. He was a coach of talented athletes such as Yu.Larionov, A.Tarasenko, V.Molochkov, R. Kosherbaev, A. Vedernikov, A. Shuvalov, S. Golubnichenko, A. Shuvalov, L. Chalysheva, A. Vedernikov, E. Buchatsky, A. Perepelyak.
In this book, you can see many happy moments from the life of the development of sports at that time. Each of them is like a separate page in the formation of our athletes as individuals. We want to show you some photos taken from the book.
The Central stadium of Alma – Ata, 1974 Participants of the Ust – Kamenogorsk– Alma–Ata run. On the left is the head of the Regional Department of the East Kazakhstan Region, A. K. Kulnazarov.
1974 A. Vedernikov leads the race
At the training camp in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan.
Saveliev, Kosherbaev, Tarasenko, Borodulin.
Shymkent. 1980 Champions of the team championship of Kazakhstan DSO “Enbek”.
In the photo: N. Egorova, O. Bulatova, L. Chalysheva, O.Kuznetsova, the Saveliev family with their son Alyosha, N. Naberezhnye Chelny, A. Ignatov, R. Kosherbaev, A. Vedernikov.
Vasily Mikhailovich Levin, author of the book “Coach”