M Poznan biography

A lot of difficult trials and many happy moments in life fell to her share.

She happened to survive the blockade of Leningrad all days, she spent a child in a besieged city and climb the top of the glory of the Soviet and world basketball Olympus of the twentieth century. The illustrated biography from the book “Legends of Russian basketball” Nina Vasilievna Poznanskaya was born on September 15 in the village of Member, Umtyo district, and Tambov region.

A year later, the family moved to Leningrad. There Nina met a war and a terrible blockade. In the year, the family of Nina Vasilievna had the opportunity to evacuate her from the besieged Leningrad, but the girl categorically refused to leave, which saved her life. An air bomb hit the bus on which Nina had to go along the road of life and all the children died. Dad Nina Poznanskaya during the Great Patriotic War fought at Pulkovo heights, was seriously wounded, ended up in a military hospital, which was located on Isaacievskaya Square.

In the ward, dad tried to somehow feed Nina, gave either a cutlet or a piece of bread, while hungry. But this is what, according to the memoirs of Nina Vasilievna, that then saved her life. Nina Poznanskaya grew up a sports child. I perfectly passed the TRP standards, and even won the Leningrad Championship in volleyball, and also became the champion of the city of skiing.

Nina Vasilievna began to engage in basketball after the war, at the age of fourteen at the school of the Sverdlovsk district of the city of Leningrad. And then the young coach Alexander Gomel, the legendary mentor of CSKA and Olympic champions, who was looking for high girls in the future, saw her then young then. Nina Vasilievna successfully played for the Leningrad teams Spartak, Iskra and then “SKA” for ten years was the captain of the army team.

Nina Poznanskaya entered the national team of the Soviet Union. In total, she spent fourteen seasons in the USSR national team, of which for seven years she was elected captain. The captain is the first assistant coach, the rod of the entire team. On the site, she played combinatively, very brightly, skillfully organizing the attacks of the whole team. She coped with this role brilliantly, skillfully leading the team to new victories.

Nina Vasilievna in her interview recalled that the captain of the team chose her for experience and strong strong -willed qualities. She did not become the Olympic champion just because Women's basketball debuted at the Olympic Games only in Montreal in the year. At this point, Nina Vasilievna had already completed her playing career. Speaking in the role of a defender and drawing, she “took care” on the site of the most formidable rivals.

Nina Nina Poznanskaya won her first gold of the major international tournament in Czechoslovakia at the European Championship. In the final, Soviet basketball players defeated the Hungarian national team with an account, which was the glorious time of dominance at the European basketball sites of athletes of the Soviet Union for many years. Only in the year the USSR national team lost the final game to the Bulgarians.

And already to the Soviet team, he regained superiority lost at the previous championship, winning the finale of the same Bulgarians in their homeland in Sofia. And the year before this triumph in Sofia at the European championship, in the year in Moscow at the Luzhniki stadium, the World Basketball Championship was held among women. This was the third tournament in a row, and for the first time the gold went to the USSR national team.

In the final, the national team of the Soviet Union met everything with the same Bulgarians and won with the score of Maksimelianov, S. Budovsk, V. Kostikov, M. Vishnev, N. Poznanskaya, R. Mikhailova, E. Yanson, Yu. Dactaraite, N. Artsishevya, N. Eremin, G. Yaroshevskaya, Kh. Was in the life of Nina's Cozuna Close-up and even somewhere a curious moment when she had to be a curious moment when she had to Attack your own ring.

This happened in the year in the European Champions Cup. The first home match “Armiks” won with the account, and in a return match in Warsaw a few seconds before the final siren, the score on the score was on the existing rules, in any match, if a draw was recorded in the main time, an additional five -minute was assigned. Fearing that in the additional half of the Polish they can squeeze the team and score more than six points, the mentor of SKA Vladimir Zheldin gives an indication of Knowances to attack his ring, which she did.

She joked such a proposal as a joke the day before. The match eventually ended with a score in favor of the Polish team, and in the sum of two games the basketball player "SKA" won. After this match, a item was included in the rules prohibiting the attack of its ring, and a change was made to the regulation on the competition: if the return match ends in a draw, then the winner in pairs is considered to be the one who won the first match.In the year in the French Muluz, Soviet basketball players again proved their superiority to win the next European championship, defeating the Czechoslovaki national team in the final with a convincing account of the women's basketball team of the Soviet Union at once in two important tournaments - in the European Championship in the capital of Hungary Budapest and the World Cup, which took place in the pen.

At the European Championship, the USSR national team, led by an outstanding coach, Lydia Alekseeva, pulled out victory from its eternal rivals, the Bulgarian national team and at the world championship in the final stage of the Basketball players of the Soviet Union, led by their captain - Nina Poznanskaya, defeated the teams of Yugoslavia, Brazil, Brazil, Brazil, Brazil, Brazil, Brazil, Brazil, Brazil, Brazil Czechoslovakia, Peru, the USA and Bulgaria in the year, the American Association of Amateur Athletes presented Nina to the Poznanskaya prestigious award “Bronze Hands” as one of the best playing world basketball.

In the same year, Nina Vasilievna, as part of the USSR national team and, as a permanent captain of the team, won her fifth European Championship, which was held in Romania, winning the Basketball players of Czechoslovakia with an account of the World Cup in Czechoslovakia. Soviet athletes prevailed with an account with the composition of that invincible team: N. Poznanskaya, T. Klidenko, I.

Pivovarova, R. Salimova Prokopenko, R. Mikhailova Kuznetsova, L. Bazarevich, F. Kochergin Orel, S. Budovsk Smildzin, A. Antipin, N. Fomini, S. Coach: Lidia Alekseeva in the year Nina Vasilievna Poznanskaya finished playing basketball and switched to coaching and organizational work. From the year-the first vice-president of the Basketball Federation of St. Petersburg.

Nina’s daughter Olga, grandson Alexander and granddaughter Tatyana followed in the footsteps of her mother and grandmother, devoting her life to basketball. She was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor, a commemorative medal of the USSR State Committee for Sports “For outstanding sports achievements”, the sign “Flight of the Russian basketball”, a commemorative medal “For the Development of the Olympic Movement”, and the award of the American Association of Athletes “Bronze Hands”.