Alexander Uvarov Biography

The partners called his strategist comments. Alexander Uvarov was born in Odoev - a small town of Tula region. In order not to sit at home in anticipation of the arrival of his parents from work, the boy spent days on end with his peers on the playground. In the summer, they cut into football, and in winter they arranged hockey hockey tournaments. The measured and carefree childhood of our hero was interrupted by the Great Patriotic War.

Alexander volunteered for the front and managed to return, not receiving serious injuries. And at the end of hostilities in the USSR, a new sport gained popularity - a hockey with a puck that was also called Canadian. Uvarov could not pass by the trend and was also carried away by a new game. So he ended up in the Moscow Dynamo. Medium height, thin, outwardly fragile, he seemed to be a stranger in the squad of ice heroes.

But it only seemed until the whistle sounded, and the game did not begin, ”said the great Vsevolod Bobrov. The newbie-and-white newcomer managed to immediately declare himself-in the USSR's debut championship, he abandoned 16 goals and became the second scorer of the team. For the ability to play the game of his three and game wisdom of our hero, they called a strategist.

And Alexander justified this title. His merit in the second championship of Dynamo was huge. The three Uvarova, in which, in addition to the hero of this text, were Yuri Krylov and Valentin Kuzin, abandoned almost half of the team’s goals in the championship - they had 53 goals from the video by itself, the performance of the Dynamo troika did not go unnoticed by the coaches of the national team.

Alexander made his debut in the USSR national team in its first official match - our guys went in a rink on the Finns with a account and in less than a month the forward won the first and only world championship in his career. Uvarov attached the club to all the first victories of the national team. Including success at the Olympics. In the first match, Alexander shipped the hat-trick to the owners of the tournament and helped the team win a crushing victory with the score, someone may argue that goals against Italians are so-so a reason for pride.

But the strategist ”showed himself in a decisive match against Canada, in which the owners of the gold medals of the Olympiad were determined. The USSR national team figured out the founders of hockey with the score, and both pucks abandoned the Dynamo link led by Uvarov, who first assisted Valentina Kuzin, and then Yuri Krylov. But once, having talked heart to heart with Alexander, I changed his opinion about him - he was not just devoted to hockey, but still beautifully, and creatively versed in the theory of our sport.

Then I realized that it was not by chance that Arkady Ivanovich Chernyshev precisely Uvarov and his partners instructed to act against the most powerful links of rivals, ”said Anatoly Tarasov. Upon returning from Italy, his game gradually began to fade away - age and old sores affected. And the youth actively advanced on the heels. In the year, the leader of the blue and white decided to leave the club who became his own, but left behind his memory in the form of a fantastic record-during the game at Dynamo, he designed 16 hat-tricks.

This achievement to this day remains unsurpassed. After Dynamo, Alexander spent one season in the Kazan Metalist and hung skates on a nail. The Olympic champion tried to find himself in the coaching craft, but to no avail. Then Uvarov decided to change his life abruptly and forever left the hockey. The illustrious hockey player got a job as an ordinary driver on ZIL and worked in parallel at the factory.

I grew up in a working team and cannot think of life without him, ”the world champion explained his decision. HC Dynamo Moscow.