Kharlamov Valery Borisovich was born in Moscow on the fourteenth of January, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eighth year in the family of a locksmith of the Kommunar plant Boris Sergeevich and Arnbe Orbat Herman, an employee of the same plant. Mom Valeria, a Spanish nationality, in the late thirties, at the age of 12, came to the USSR.
The biography of the hockey player Kharlamov is full of vivid and memorable events. At the age of seven, he first skated and went out on the ice with his father. In those days, hockey already became a very common game in our country, second only to football in popularity. Many boys of that time dreamed of being like Ivan Tregubov or Vsevolod Bobrov. Valery was no exception. However, on the way to a dream, an obstacle suddenly appeared in front of the boy - poor health. At the beginning of the nineteen sixty-first year, Valery fell ill with a sore throat. As a result, he received a heart complication. Doctors identified the disease - a heart defect and actually banned him from any activity. He was released from physical education classes, forbidden to run, to lift weights, to go to a pioneer camp. Mom put up with her son’s serious illness, and the father did not want to think about his disability. Therefore, in the nineteen sixty-second year, he led his son to record in the hockey section of the summer ice rink on Leningradsky Prospekt. That day, Valery became the only lucky one who was accepted into the section.
The biography of the hockey player Kharlamov says that in a short period of time he became one of the best and most active players of the Sports School of CSKA and the favorite of the coach Boris Kulagin. True, Anatoly Tarasov (CSKA head coach) treated the youth with some bias. The reason for this was a small growth for the hockey player. In those days, Tarasov made the main bet on tall and large athletes, referring to the strong and huge Canadian professionals, who at that time were the strongest in the world. In this regard, in 1966, Valery was sent to play in the Chebarkulsky “Star” (second league). There, the first-class sportsman Kharlamov scored thirty-four goals in one season.
The hockey player Kharlamov, whose biography consisted of high-profile victories, thanks to the efforts of the coach Kulagin in 1967 entered the main team of CSKA. It was during this period that the famous and legendary three of the great hockey players Petrov - Mikhailov - Kharlamov appeared. At the end of that year, she became part of the second USSR team. In the nineteen sixty-ninth year, for the first time in the history of the Soviet Union, the 20-year-old hockey player Kharlamov, a biography whose photos were published in all major print publications of the Soviet Union , became the world champion.
By 1972, Kharlamov was becoming the best hockey player not only in the Soviet Union, but also in Europe. In the same year, Valery won the
Olympic gold medal as a member of the USSR national team
.The biography of the hockey player Kharlamov contains another striking event - the famous series of matches between the national team of the Soviet Union and professionals from Canada, which began on the second of September one thousand nine hundred and seventy-two at the Forum stadium in Montreal. As a man who did not know how to lose, Kharlamov was one of the few who believed in the victory of Soviet hockey. But it was this “kid”, by hockey standards, who proved to Canadians and the whole world that Soviet hockey is the best in the world.
The biography of the hockey player Kharlamov is full of outstanding achievements. He became the only hockey player from Russia whose portrait is on the stand of the Museum of Glory in the Canadian city of Toronto.
In 1981, the life of a talented athlete ended tragically and ridiculously. In a car accident, a great athlete, a caring husband and a loving father died. Until now, the legends about him are told to young athletes by those who were lucky enough to live such a short but vibrant life next to him.