Stalin's Falcons business card hockey team AIR FORCE MVO manager Kolchugin N. A.

Stalin's Falcons business card hockey team AIR FORCE MVO administrator Kolchugin Nikolay Alexandrovich

Type of goods: Business cards of famous people

Product: business card

Material: Blueprint paper

Country of origin: USSR

Represented Person: Kolchugin Nikolay Alexandrovich

Dimensions: 87х42 mm;

History reference: Air Force Hockey Club MVO - a team founded in 1945 on the orders of Joseph Stalin and speaking from the very beginning in the history of club hockey in the USSR.

Vasily Stalin was appointed the patron of the team, and the backbone of the team was made up of athletes from one military school.

January 7, 1950 in extremely adverse weather conditions near Sverdlovsk a catastrophe occurred, a Li-2 plane with a crew on board,

flying to regular season matches in the Urals, crashed while landing at Koltsovo Airport, all passengers and crew died.

In memory of those killed in the cemetery at the mass grave in Koltsovo, a monument was erected.

The surviving members of the MVO Air Force hockey team:

· Apparently, fate wished that Vsevolod Bobrov slept on a plane in Moscow, according to him, for the first time, a serviceable alarm clock wound up at 4:00 a.m. Although the departure was delayed by 2 hours, the team flew without Bobrov and died. Bobrov himself rode the Chelyabinsk train and survived.

· Kolchugin Nikolay Alexandrovich is the team administrator, sent to find Vsevolod Bobrov before the departure of the plane.

· Viktor Shuvalov, who had just transferred to the Air Force from Chelyabinsk, did not fly to the Urals for ethical reasons, and was left by Vasily Stalin in Moscow.

· The team captain Alexander Vinogradov, who in the last game before the flight was disqualified for two matches, also escaped a death trip.

However, he could fly to the match, but he was not on the plane (it was stated that he received a microtrauma).

· Matvey Goldin - head coach - just a few weeks before the disaster, he was relieved of his duties because, after an unsuccessful match for the Air Force, Dynamo congratulated Vasily Trofimov who distinguished himself from his rivals - not knowing that he was painfully behind him loss general aviation Vasily Stalin.

There is an alternative version: Stalin Jr. also did not fly to Sverdlovsk on an unfortunate plane on the orders of his father. And Joseph Vissarionovich was warned by Wolf Messing himself.

He foresaw the tragedy and reported this to Stalin. Vasily Iosifovich obeyed the ban, although he did not believe in Messing's prediction. But just in case, he ordered Bobrov to beware, with whom they had friendly relations. Bobrov allegedly overslept, and rode the train. It also saved the life of N. Koltsov, who was sent in search of Bobrov.