Background
Konstantin Fedorovich Artemiev was born on May 13, 1914.
Konstantin Fedorovich Artemiev was born on May 13, 1914.
In 1938, Konstantin Fedorovich graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physical Culture and was assigned to work at the Bauman Moscow Higher Technical University as a senior lecturer in the Department of Physical Education.
In 1939 Konstantin Fedorovich was sent to work as a civil teacher at the Physical Training Department of the Air Force Academy named after Zhukovsky. After reforming and dividing the Military Academy, Konstantin Fedorovich was transferred to the post of senior lecturer of the Physical Training Department at the Military Academy named after Frunze.
He deals mainly with students of the Intelligence Department, which in 1940 was transformed into the Higher Intelligence School of the General Staff of the Red Army, where Lieutenant Artemiev became the head of physical training.
Since 1942, the officer Artemiev was training scouts and sabotage groups that he escorts and throws into the deep rear of the enemy. After the war, Major Artemiev continued to work in the Intelligence School of the Main Intelligence Directorate. In 1958, he was appointed as a head of the Department of Physical Training at the Military-Diplomatic Academy. His main task was specific training of soldiers for working abroad. Artemiev retired in the rank of colonel in 1968.
Working in the military academy, Konstantin Fedorovich was three times elected by the president of the Weightlifting Federation of the RSFSR. Under his leadership, Russian weightlifters repeatedly took first places at the USSR Peoples’ Сhampionships, at the Championships and Cups of the country. In 1973 he worked as a senior coach in weightlifting of rural Voluntary Sports Society, where he brought up a lot of outstanding weightlifters, including Olympic champions Leonid Taranenko, Anatoly Khrapaty, Jaan Tals.
Konstantin Fedorovich worked just as successfully as a senior weightlifting coach in the Sports Committee of the RSFSR. Soon he was recalled to the State Committee of the USSR for the post of head of the Weightlifting Department.
In 1969 Konstantin Artemiev was elected as a member of the Technical Committee of the European Weightlifting Federation. On behalf of the International Weightlifting Federation, he was twice awarded with the highest marks "For the great contribution to the development of weightlifting in the world". In 1990, Konstantin Artemiev was elected as a President of the USSR Weightlifting Federation, where he perform this role until the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 1993, Artemiev became vice-president of the Russian Federation Weightlifting. In 1998, at the All-Russian Conference at the personal request of Artemiev he was exempted from the duties of the Deputy Chairman and, because of his enormous contribution to the development of domestic weightlifting, was elected for life as the Honorary President of the Russian Federation Weightlifting.