Background
Vladislav Stepanovich Rastorotskiy was born on July 14, 1933 in Liski, Voronezh, Russian Federation.
Vladislav Stepanovich Rastorotskiy was born on July 14, 1933 in Liski, Voronezh, Russian Federation.
Vladislav Stepanovich liked sports since his childhood and had a propensity to gymnastics. He went to Voronezh and entered the Physical Education faculty. Rastorotsky began systematic training in gymnastics very late, in his twenties. But managed to earn the title Master of Sports of the USSR at age above 27. His teacher in Voronezh was another famous Soviet coach Yury Shtukman.
After graduation, Vladislav Stepanovich became a coach in the Voronezh House of Officers. After 2 years, he moved to Grozny, where he began teaching at the Pedagogical Institute and coaching at the Dynamo Sports School. Vladislav Stepanovich began to coach Ludmilla Tourischeva. According to Rastorotsky, Tourischeva initially had strong muscles but a weak gymnastics school, as compared to other his students; but he didn't meet more industrious and purposeful students neither before nor after her.
From 1967 to 1985 he was the coach of the USSR national artistic gymnastics team. In 1974 he moved to work in Rostov-on-Don. Also for several years he was engaged in coaching abroad: from 1989 to 1991 - in France, from 1994 to 1996 - in China. From 2001 to 2015, he lived in the town of Liski, where he headed the specialized youth sports school for gymnastics created by him.
Vladislav Stepanovich Rastorotsky died in July 2017, aged 85.