Viktor Spiridonov

Russia
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Description

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.

Students (1)

  • 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

Sources

“Spiridonov had developed his own system of self-defense. He laid European jujitsu as the base of this system and later appended some elements of Greco-Roman wrestling, catch-as-catch-can wrestling, and boxing.”
— Green, Thomas A.; Svinth, Joseph R.. (2010). Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia of History and Innovation info
“The system was known by various names—first as Jiu-Jitsu, then as samoz, then as sam, and finally as Sambo.”
— Green, Thomas A.; Svinth, Joseph R.. (2010). Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia of History and Innovation info

Identifiers

https://martial.is/entity/01M5HN78FDAK4Z7WNQ4Y4E2VGB
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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Viktor Spiridonov. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M5HN78FDAK4Z7WNQ4Y4E2VGB - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
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@incollection{martialis_01M5HN78FDAK4Z7WNQ4Y4E2VGB, author = {Muñoz, Frederico}, title = {Viktor Spiridonov}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url = {https://martial.is/entity/01M5HN78FDAK4Z7WNQ4Y4E2VGB}, urldate = {ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
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