Valery Borisovich Kharlamov

Valery Borisovich Kharlamov
Valery Borisovich Kharlamov was born on January 14, 1948, near Solnechnogorsk, Moscow region.

What is he famous for
Valery Borisovich Kharlamov-Soviet ice hockey player, forward of the CSKA team (1967-1981) and the USSR national team (1969-1980), honored master of sports of the USSR (1969). Two-time Olympic champion (1972, 1976) and eight-time world champion. The best hockey player of the USSR (1972, 1973). One of the leading hockey players of the USSR in the 1970s, who received recognition both in his country and abroad. Member of the IIHF Hall of fame (since 1998). Member of the Toronto hockey Hall of fame (since 2005)

Parents
Father-Boris Sergeevich Kharlamov (26.06.1927-27.01.2010)-by nationality Russian, a test fitter at the Moscow plant "Kommunar". Her mother, a Spanish national from Bilbao[14], real name Carmen Orive-Abad (Carmen Orive Abad, begoña, Begonia)(1925-1987), in 1937 the girl was brought to the USSR (among the refugees from the Spanish civil war), since the 1940s she worked at the same factory as a revolver Turner.

Troika Mikhailov-Petrov-Kharlamov
CSKA's three forwards were created over a period of 3.5 years. First, Boris Mikhailov appeared in CSKA. Since 1967, Vladimir Petrov began to appear in the base of the army, who was considered as a replacement for Alexander Almetov, who was retiring from hockey. At the same time, Mikhailov and Petrov did not compete for a place in the base — the coaches considered them as complementary. For the first time in the 1967-68 season, they played together with Veniamin Alexandrov, and after the CSKA team went to the games in Japan, Kharlamov joined the trio.

Car accident in 1976
On Thursday, may 26, 1976, the Kharlamovs were involved in a car accident on the Leningrad highway while returning from a night out. Valery, who was driving, decided to overtake a slow-moving truck (although at the same time oncoming at a short distance was another truck). When leaving the oncoming lane, I saw that a taxi was rushing at him from behind an oncoming truck. Turning sharply to the left, he left the road and crashed into a post. Two months later, in August, he took his first independent steps around the ward. Later in the ward, a special room was equipped for him, where he had weights and where he could do athletic exercises.