Background
Vladimir Nikolaevich Pakhomov was born in Moscow on September 6, 1935.
Vladimir Nikolaevich Pakhomov was born in Moscow on September 6, 1935.
At the end of April, 1957 a newspaper "Vechernyaya Moskva" has announced a competition. Writing the best report of the forthcoming national football championships was main goal. This championship took place on May 2 between two Moscow’s teams "Spartak" and "Dinamo". On May 11, 1957 newspaper named the winner. The best report had Vladimir Pakhomov. At that time he was a student of 1-st year of Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages. The report was in the form of an open statement to participants of that match. After that, he received a proposal to cooperate with "Vechernyaya Moskva". In 1971, Vladimir Nikolaevich Pakhomov joined to their staff. Since that year he was preparing and conducting two traditional relay races. Both were with the Newspaper's prizes. The first one is on May 2 on the Garden Ring (Sadovoye Koltso) and on May 9 at the Olympic channel in Krylatskoe. His main tasks consisted, for first, in searching sponsors (investors). For second, inviting to the best military bands to their start and finish place. And finally, doing other thing connected with these competitions, which are in turn were unique events in the history of national sport.
After his debut in "Vechernyaya Moskva", he started to publish in "Moskovskaya sportivnaya nedelya", "Sovietski Sport", "Krasnaya Zvezda". In October 1959 Vladimir Pakhomov joined to "Sovietski Sport". In spite of being as a translator of Soviet Sport Delegation, he always worked as a journalist.
After the Hockey World and European Championships in 1975 Pakhomov had unpleasant situation. Vice-Chairman of Sport Committee of the USSR prohibited to Pakhomov being sent as a translator. Valentin Sych (Vice-Chairman) had explained his decision like Pakhomov had a complicated character. Due to this decision Pakhomov received a restriction to travel abroad for 11 years. Only in 1986, he got an opportunity to go abroad again. It happened because of his designation as leader of the second hockey team of the USSR, which took part in international tournament in Czechoslovakia.