Zubkov Viktor Alekseevich was a Merited Master of Sports of the USSR.
Background
Viktor Zubkov was born on April 24 in 1937 in Rostov-on-Don. His father is Alexey Iosifovich Zubkov (1911-1951). Mother is Olga Ivanovna Zubkova (1914-2004). Wife is Larisa Timofeevna Zubkova (born in 1938), daughter is Elena (born in 1963).
Education
Victor Zubkov was a student of The Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism in 1968.
In 1957 he studied at the First Rostov Automobile and Road Construction Technical School.
In 1956, the Georgiy Tikhonovich Nikitin, coach of the RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) team, included 19-year-old Zubkov in his team, and the player from Rostov showed himself at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.
Stepan Surenovich Spandaryan, the senior coach of the national team, drew attention to the young perspective center. He invited him to the main team of the country, which was preparing at that time for the Olympic Games of 1956 in Australia. Zubkov returned from Melbourne with a silver medal on his chest and a dream of "gold."
At the European Championship of 1957 in Sofia Zubkov was already the main player of the USSR team. Thus, 20-year-old Zubkov won his first title of European champion.
In the same year of 1957, Viktor was called up for military service, he had to move to Moscow and began to play for the CSKA team, which Yevgeny Alekseev coached at that time. He spent 9 years in the CSKA and during this time became the eight-time champion of the USSR.
The year of 1959 was Zubkov's big break. He was twice recognized as the best center. First, at the World Championships in Chile. Zubkov played brilliantly against both the Brazilians and the US team, which the USSR national team literally crushed with a score of 72:35.
After that, Victor perfectly played at the European Championship of 1959 in Istanbul and made a significant contribution to the success of the Soviet national team, which won the fifth time the championship of the continent. Specialists and journalists called Zubkov the best center of Europe.
For the center of that time, Victor was rather short - 202 centimeters. In 1960, Zubkov went to his second Olympics - in Rome - and, like in Melbourne, won as a member of the USSR national team a silver medal of the basketball tournament. In 1961 in Belgrade, he became the champion of Europe for the third time.
After the triumphant club season in the CSKA followed an unsuccessful World Cup-1963 in Brazil. The Soviet team got outplayed by the hosts of the tournament and Yugoslavia and took the third place. On his return to Moscow, as captain of the team, Viktor Zubkov wrote in the magazine "Sports Games" a famous article "Sor iz izby", admitting criticism of the work of the coaching staff.
Henceforth the road to the USSR national team for Zubkov was closed - the national team flew to the European Championship -1963 and the Olympic Games-1964 in Tokyo without him.
Zubkov successfully played for the CSKA Moscow until 1967, when he decided to retire at the age of 29 years.
Having parted with a big basketball, a graduate of the Institute of Physical Education began to work as a senior lecturer at the Military Engineering Academy named after V.V. Kuibyshev, then was deputy head of the department, worked some time as a coach in Mozambique and returned to the academy. However, even here he did not forget about basketball, coached the team of this educational institution, which under his leadership became the strongest among military collectives. He worked at the academy until 1994, when he decided to take well-deserved rest.
Achievements
Personality
Physical Characteristics:
Height: 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in).
Connections
Viktor Zubkov was married to Larisa Timofeevna Zubkova, she was born in 1938. They have a daughter, her name is Elena, she was born in 1963.