Background
Igor was born in Moscow, Russian Federation on January 10, 1940.
Igor was born in Moscow, Russian Federation on January 10, 1940.
In the fate of Igor Maslennikov, the famous rowing club Strelka played a great role. At the age of 15, he began rowing. He was so keen on racing so that there were problems in school. He had to go to the school of working youth and enter the profession of a loader in the transport- loading office, in order to increase his physical training by dragging the weights.
While being a first year student, Igor Maslennikov published his first notes in the newspaper "Soviet Sport". Editor-in-chief Vladimir Novoskoltsev said that after graduation he would invite Igor to the staff. But in this capacity, a novice journalist decided to master the profession in the magazine " Russian sport Life", where he worked as a traveling correspondent for 5 years and in 1968 came to the only sports newspaper.
He repeatedly won the creative contest "Golden Pen." In 1972, Igor Maslennikov was chosen to be a rowing veterans club commander, which was based on "Strelka". In 1987, I.B. Maslennikov headed the Federation of rowing on kayaks and canoes.
Maslennikov published the novel "The best half of life", positively accepted by readers and critics. Moreover, documentary books were published, as well as essays in "Youth", "Change", "Izvestia", "Trud." In 1988, Igor Borisovich became editor-in-chief of the magazine " Russian sport Life " and has been working there up to now. Igor Borisovich Maslennikov was elected President of the Russian Sports Journalists Federation (FSWR).
Father - Maslennikov Boris Fedorovich (1911-1992), engineer-builder. Mother - Sapozhnikova Tatyana Vasilievna (1920), Worked in the trading company "Spring". Wife - Elena Viktorovna (1965). Daughter - Anna (1976), Bachelor of Physical Rehabilitation, works in the hospital for veterans of wars. Sons - Igor (1986 ) and Dmitry (1987), schoolchildren.
