Viktor Spiridonov · Lineage tree

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Soviet self-defence instructor, head of Dynamo's Division of Self-Defense without Weapons, who built a system on European jujitsu learned from books, with wrestling and boxing elements; adopted by the national security forces in the 1920s and known successively as samoz, sam and Sambo. Green & Svinth give 1883–1943.

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  V. Volkov

  sports_martial_artsSambo Probable

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  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

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  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  “In 1940, V. Volkov, a student of both Spiridonov and Oshchepkov, published a manual for NKVD schools titled The Course of Self-Defense without Weapons—“Sambo” (1940).”

  — Green, Thomas A.; Svinth, Joseph R.. (2010). Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia of History and Innovation info

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