Background
Vasily Antonovich Avramenko was born on 31 December 1949 in Markovka village of Lugansk region.
Vasily Antonovich Avramenko was born on 31 December 1949 in Markovka village of Lugansk region.
After graduating from school, Vasily Antonovich Avramenko entered Lugansk Medical University where he specialized in the field of general medicine. After 4 years of studying in Lugansk Vasily Antonovich transferred to the Faculty of Military Medicine of Kuibyshev Medical University.
In 1973 Vasily Avramenko graduated from University and was promoted to the rank of a medical service lieutenant and gained qualification of a doctor of the highest category. Being a top-student, he was sent to Poland where he served as a medical service chief of the Northern Command Brigade Signal Corps until 1978.
During his military service in Poland Vasily Anatolievich seriously decided to practice sports medicine. When in his last year of service Avramenko asked his commander officer to allow him, as a career officer, to go to Estonia to attend sports medicine improvement courses, Ivan Mikhailovich agreed. In Estonia Avramenko was seriously studying for half a year with excellent mentors, the majority of whom were the experts from the USA.
In 1978 Vasily Antonovich came to the capital and moved to the town of Dmitrov for a while, where he served as a medical service chief of the automobile regiment.
At the end of 1979, in the run-up-to the Moscow Olympics, Vasily Avramenko was admitted to the stuff of the Central Sports Club of the Army (CSKA). Since 1980 to 1984 he was working as a doctor of the athletics team of CSKA and the USSR National Team. Until 1989 Vasily Antonovich had been a doctor of the basketball CSKA team and the Soviet National Team, and concurrently continued to help athletes for several years. From 1985 to 1987 was training sportsmen for the Olympics 1988 in Seoul.
In 1988 Vasily Antonovich became for the players a coach, a doctor, a masseur and even a manager in one person.
After the Olympics in Seoul V.A. Avramenko trained the sportsmen of the Soviet National Team for the European Championship in Zagreb (1989) which he attended together with Vladas Garastas, a basketball team head coach, with whom he also cooperated in 1990 at the World Championship in Argentina, where the Russian team got the second place. In 1992 Avramenko worked with a basketball team headed by U. G. Selihov at the Olympics in Barcelona, in 1993 the team led by Selihov won a silver medal at the Championship in Munich.
In 1994 Vasily Antonovich received an invitation from Viktor Vasilievich Tikhonov, a coach of the Russian Ice Hockey Olympic National Team, to work with his team during the period of preparation and holding of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Since 1995 Vasily Avramenko has concentrated on scientific and practical activity in the field of placentotherapy. Since 1995 V.A. Avramenko has been a chief of CSKA Medical Exercises Dispensary traditional medicine department. Moreover, Vasily Antonovich worked as doctor of the Russian National Ice Hockey Team.
In 1996 at the Olympics in Atlanta he helped athletes and in the period from 1997 to 1999 was collaborating with representatives of different sports.
In 2000 V. Avramenko accompanied men's basketball team lead by Stanislav Eremin to the Olympic Games in Sydney. In 2001-2003 was helping a large group of athletes again, and in 2004 at the Olympics in Athens cooperated with all coaches of the Russian National Team.