Childhood of Alexander Zubkov
Luge appeared in Alexander's life when the boy was ten years old.
The country learned about bobsleigh as a sport only in 1984 after the Olympics. Then many boys became interested in bobsleigh and wanted to know what it was. Just in the year of the Olympics, Sasha, who had already been skiing for some time, came to luge. Naturally, he didn’t even think about bobsleigh at that time. The first coach of the young luger at the Olympic reserve school was Elena Karabanova. Zubkov moved to Irkutsk and began training with Lyudmila Antonenko. The young athlete was distinguished by his determination and perseverance, which his mentors saw. These are precisely the qualities without which it is impossible to achieve victories in professional sports. Soon the first results appeared. Alexander managed to win many awards in luge in different age categories.
Childhood and youth
Alexey Zubkov was born on March 27, 1975 in Ukraine. His parents were military men and devoted their entire lives to the Navy. My mother served as a class I sailor, my father as a scout in the Northern Fleet. Six months after the birth of their son, the family left for Murmansk, where they stayed until Alexei’s 14th birthday. After retiring, the parents returned to their homeland in Kyiv. Zubkov’s sister remained in Russia.
Actor Alexey Zubkov (still from the film “I am a bodyguard”)
The future screen star received a diverse education. A talented student attended a gymnasium with a historical bias, where children were regularly sent to archaeological excavations. The boy succeeded both in general education school and in music school. Alexey took lessons in playing the trumpet, and later taught himself to play the guitar. But Zubkov’s dreams were occupied with military service - he dreamed of a sailor’s career.
Twice the teenager tried to enter the Suvorov or Nakhimov schools, but did not pass the medical examination - his eyesight failed. For the same reason, he was unable to serve in the army.
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Thanks to his academic abilities, Zubkov entered the Kiev National University of Television, Film and Theater named after Karpenko-Kary. True, this happened a year after graduation. During this period, the young man could not decide on his choice of profession, so he temporarily worked at a construction site. The student was not inspired by his studies, and after completing his 3rd year of study, he left the university. In his youth, Zubkov worked in a security structure for 4 years, but when he realized that he could not live without the theater, he returned to his alma mater.
The beginning of the sports career of Alexander Zubkov
Zubkov achieved his best results as a luger in the nineties. During these ten years, he became the champion of Russia three times in a single-seat sleigh. Having gone to the youth luge championship in 1994, he became the champion in a two-seater crew. His date was Daniil Chaban.
Bobsledder Alexander Zubkov has many awards
1998 was the year of the first Winter Olympics in his career. It cannot be said that he achieved success there, since he only managed to take twentieth place.
Valery Leichenko suggested that Sasha, who at that time was already an international master of sports, try himself in bobsleigh, which is related to luge. Zubkov had to make a difficult choice. It was the results of the Olympics that helped him make up his mind. He began to engage in bobsleigh, this technically difficult sport.
The moment of transition to bobsleigh can be considered the beginning of a new sports life for an athlete. Possessing a truly champion's character, Zubkov the luger was able to prove himself in bobsleigh. Already in 2000, he began to win victory after victory at domestic competitions.
Unfortunately, in Salt Lake City he became only the sixteenth. Nevertheless, it became clear that success at the Olympics was just a matter of time. The rating of the Russian crew at international competitions grew from victory to victory.
The Olympics in Turin confirmed the forecasts of experts. Zubkov and the accelerators - Golubev, Stepushkin, Seliverstov, took second place, losing to the crew of the German Andre Lange.
Injuries are a common occurrence in elite sports. Alexander seriously injured his Achilles tendon right before the start of the Olympics, but, not wanting to give up his dream of winning, years of training, and the hopes of fans and coaches, he took part in it and showed brilliant results.
But the injury still needed to be treated, and Alexander decided to skip the next season to undergo a rehabilitation course in Germany. The operation was successful, the athlete returned to form, and the 2008-2009 season confirmed this. Sasha and his comrades won the World Cup, performing in both fours and twos.
Preparing for new starts became more and more difficult, as aces from Switzerland, Germany and the USA began to take them seriously as worthy competitors. This was the reason that they were given training tracks in Europe with reluctance, not wanting their opponents to get in good shape. Unfortunately, there was not a single track in Russia that met international standards. And this despite the fact that the bobsledders showed brilliant results. Because of these difficulties, the guys most often had to train in Sigulda (Latvia), where Soviet and Russian masters of sports also trained.
In 2010, Alexander decided to leave sports, accepting the offer to become the Minister of Sports of the Irkutsk Region. However, he refused this position and continued to achieve success in professional bobsleigh. Already in 2011, he won the first gold in Russian bobsleigh in doubles.
Personal life of Viktor Alekseevich Zubkov
The government official has been married to his beloved wife Zoya for many years. They have been in love since their student years. After finishing his 4th year at the university, he met first-year student Zoya Smirnova. She also came from a family of dispossessed peasants. Their relationship endured all sorts of obstacles and distance. They met extremely rarely then, because Viktor Alekseevich was sent to pre-graduation practice in the Luga district of the Leningrad region. After successfully defending his thesis, he was drafted into the army for two years, where he visited different regions of the USSR, but visited his native land very rarely.
Their love endured many troubles, but they got married immediately after Viktor Alekseevich returned from service. When billionaire Zubkov was in a leadership position at a state farm in Priozersk, his wife held the post of chief accountant of the agricultural enterprise. When her husband was promoted to senior management positions, she followed him and also changed jobs. Next, she began to head the former agricultural plant. Well, already in 2007 she owned the very famous Nefertiti in the Leningrad region.
The couple have a daughter, Yulia, born in 1970. She studied at the Financial and Economic Institute. Her father gave her a fitness club with a swimming pool, called “Parus”. As a 3rd year student at the Institute of Finance and Economics, she married her first school love, Nikolai Pokhlebin. The billionaire's son-in-law is the son of the first secretary of the city party committee of his native Priozersk. In 1993, their happy marriage gave birth to a daughter, Anastasia, a desired granddaughter for Yulia’s parents. Now she is engaged in legal activities. But even little Anastasia could not save her parents’ relationship, and their marriage was dissolved. The reason for the divorce is quite interesting; Yulia believed that Nikolai Pokhlebin was insolvent and could not support his family, satisfying all its needs.
Yulia Serdyukova - Daughter of Viktor Zubkov
Yulia graduated from the Faculty of Economics and decided to have a second higher education. While working at a bank, she enrolled in law school by correspondence, where she found her second husband. She met the scandalous former manager of the military department, Anatoly Serdyukov. But in those years he was married and was the general director of Mebel-Market JSC. They got married in 2012. And in their new and happy family a daughter was born - Natasha. The family will live in a happy marriage for a long time, because the new husband is quite a wealthy man.
Viktor Alekseevich Zubkov showed everyone through his life that he could be trusted and relied on. He is an avid fan of St. Petersburg Zenit and starts every morning by reading Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
Victor Zubkov
Valentin Zubkov
Valentin Ivanovich Zubkov. Born on May 12, 1923 in the village of Peschanoye, Ryazan province - died on January 18, 1979 in Moscow. Soviet theater and film actor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1969).
Valentin Zubkov was born on May 12, 1923 in the village of Peschanoye, Ryazan province.
Father: Ivan Zubkov.
Mother - Polina Ivanovna Doynikova (1906-1984).
In his youth, he intended to become a builder and planned to enter a technical school. However, his plans were confused by the war. He went to the military registration and enlistment office to ask to go to the front. But he was sent to the Armavir Military Aviation School. In September 1942, the school was relocated to Central Asia, Zubkov studied in Fergana.
In 1943, he was sent to the front, served as a fighter pilot, and received the rank of junior lieutenant.
After the war he worked in the Spetskontrolproekt organization. At the same time, Valentin Zubkov began to engage in amateur performances: he read poetry, sang songs, and performed pop numbers. Once a theater director came to such an amateur concert, who, seeing Zubkov, advised him to act in films.
The first work was the painting “Twins” in 1945. In 1947, a film with his participation, “The Russian Question,” was released.
At the end of the forties, Valentin Zubkov began acting in an amateur theater studio at Moscow State University. The director was Konstantin Voinov: a famous Soviet director and screenwriter who directed the films “The Marriage of Balzaminov”, “Wonderful Character”, “Dacha”. It was with Konstantin Naumovich that Valentin Zubkov played the main roles in the films “Three Came Out of the Forest” and “The Sun Shines on Everyone.” And in the film “Uncle's Dream” Voinov gave Zubkov a cameo role.
Then directors Lev Kulidzhanov and Yakov Segel invited him to their film “It started like this. " According to the plot, a Komsomol group from the capital comes to the Kazakh steppes to develop virgin lands. Zubkov played the role of foreman Vasily Petrovich Skvortsov.
Valentin Zubkov in the film “It started like this. "
Next, director Yuliy Raizman invited Zubkov to play in the film “Communist.” But during the auditions the actor looked unconvincing, and in the end Evgeniy Urbansky got the main role. And Zubkov played the fist Stepan.
He also starred in the legendary film “The Cranes Are Flying” - he played Stepan, a front-line soldier, a friend of the hero Alexei Batalov.
Valentin Zubkov in the film “The Cranes Are Flying”
Later he could be seen in the films “Father's House”, “Leon Garros is Looking for a Friend”, “Northern Tale”, “Ivan’s Childhood”, “Evdokia”, “Summer Vacation Time”, “Day of Happiness”, “In War, as in war" etc.
Valentin Zubkov in the film “Day of Happiness”
Valentin Zubkov in the film “In War, Like in War”
Since 1960 - actor at the Film Actor's Studio Theatre.
In 1969 he was awarded the title Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
Zubkov's film career was negatively affected by his passion for alcohol. Because of this, famous directors did not want to deal with him. His wife helped the actor cope with his illness.
Personal life of Valentin Zubkov:
Wife - Nina Mikhailovna Zubkova (1925-1997). They met in 1947 and soon got married. The couple did not have children for a long time, and finally, after seven years of marriage, the long-awaited son Sergei was born in 1954. He starred with his father in the film Mercy Train (1964).
A misfortune happened to my son in the summer of 1977 - he died at the age of 23. Returning from the army, he went to rest in a village with his aunt near Uglich and drowned in a river. How this happened is still unclear. Sergei was not alone in the boat, but with his friend, and when it suddenly capsized, both of them were unable to surface to the surface of the water. They searched for them for a whole day, but the current carried the bodies far from the scene of the tragedy. The drowned bodies were discovered by tourists vacationing nearby.
Valentin Zubkov and son Sergei
Valentin Zubkov and wife Nina Mikhailovna
Valentin Ivanovich played the guitar, sang well, drew beautifully, and gave his paintings to friends.
Illness and death of Valentin Zubkov
The news of his son's death devastated the actor. Soon he became seriously ill: stroke, vascular dementia. The actor remembered practically nothing; he could not even name his wife Nina, with whom he lived for thirty years. Recently, the disease has progressed: when Zubkov went out for a walk, his wife put a note in his pocket with his home address so that he could come back.
At the beginning of 1979, the actor was once again hospitalized, where he died on January 18, 1979. He was buried in the Moscow region, at the Cherkizovsky (Northern) cemetery in the village of Podrezkovo, next to his son Seryozha and his wife Nina Mikhailovna.
Filmography of Valentin Zubkov:
1945 - Gemini - episode 1947 - Russian Question - Chauffeur 1956 - It started like this. - brigadier Vasily Petrovich Skvortsov 1957 - The cranes are flying - Stepan, friend of Boris 1957 - Communist - Stepan 1958 - Three came out of the forest - Sergei Platonovich Koshelev 1958 - Over Tissa - Clark (false Belograi) 1959 - Stars of May - plays a tank driver (uncredited not specified) 1959 – The sun shines for everyone – Nikolai Maksimovich Savelyev 1959 – Father’s house – Sergei Ivanovich Nikitin, chairman 1960 – Summer vacation time – Gleb Gorelov, Svetlana’s lover 1960 – Leon Garros is looking for a friend – Andrei Petrovich Savinov, polar pilot, Natasha’s fiancé 1960 – Northern story – Tikhonov the artist / Tikhonov the soldier 1960 – Yasha Toporkov – German 1961 – Man follows the sun – Military Musician (horn player) 1961 – Evdokia – Porokhin 1962 – Flood – Zinovy Alekseevich 1962 – Ivan’s childhood – Leonid Kholin, captain 1962 – Seven nannies – Grigory Ivanovich Voloshin, party organizer of the workshop 1963 – Day of Happiness – Fyodor Andreevich Orlov 1964 – Mercy Train – Ivan Egorovich Danilov 1965 – From seven to twelve – Lucy’s dad 1966 – I am a soldier, my mother is a foreman 1966 – No and yes – Lobov 1966 - Uncle's dream - Vasya, a school teacher dying of consumption 1966 - Wild honey - Major Serbin 1968 - Mysterious monk - Lobov, chairman of the Cheka 1968 - In war, as in war - Lieutenant Colonel Basov, commander of the SAP 1968 - Quarantine - Doroshenko 1969 - Her name is Vesna - military commissar 1969 - Attention, tsunami! - midshipman Varabbas 1969 - I am his bride - Tolkunov 1969 - Steps on the ground - Matvey Petrovich Zhuravlev, professor, head of the archaeological expedition 1971 - Girl from cell No. 25 - Kuzma Zhilin (the role is duplicated by Yuri Bogolyubov) 1971 - Anthracite - assistant coach of the Ukrainian national team boxing 1972 – Boys are good people – polar pilot Alexey Klimov, Roman’s uncle 1972 – The Last Fort – Voronin 1972 – And the steamships hum and go – Guriy Ivanovich 1973 – With and without you – investigator 1973 – Transit to the north (film-play) – Orlov 1974 – If you want to be happy – episode
Biography
Valentin Ivanovich was born into an ordinary rural peasant family. When the war began, he, like many of his peers, went to the military registration and enlistment office with a request to be sent to the front. By decision of the military commission, Zubkov was sent to Armavir, to a military aviation school, after which he became a fighter pilot.
In the photo: Valentin Zubkov
Valentin Ivanovich went to the front in 1943 and during his years of service he shot down many enemy planes, but Zubkov did not like to remember this, believing that he was simply fulfilling his civic duty. He was demobilized before the end of the war - Valentin Ivanovich was diagnosed with tuberculosis and this was a huge test for Zubkov, who almost took his own life after learning about his terrible diagnosis.
Returning to civilian life and getting a job in the Spetskontrolproekt organization, he became seriously interested in amateur performances, receiving great pleasure from going on stage, participating in theatrical productions or reciting poetry.
The head of the amateur studio, theater director Konstantin Voinov, who noticed an artistic gift in the young man, told Valentin about this, advising him to become an actor. This advice inspired Zubkov, and he decided to try his hand at this field.
