Biography
Ivan Tkachenko died in the heyday of forces, just 31 years old. However, despite the fact that the life of a young man turned out to be short, he managed to do a lot.
Ivan was a talented athlete, with the arrival of which Yaroslavl "Lokomotiv" played with new colors. But in the life of a hockey player was not only for sports. After his death, people found out that Tkachenko had a golden heart - free and not revealing the name, helped sick children.
Childhood and youth
Ivan Leonidovich Tkachenko was born on November 9, 1979 in Yaroslavl. The family has already been the son of Seryozha, and the parents dreamed of her daughter, but Vanya appeared. Initially, my father wanted to call the boy Yaroslav, in honor of his hometown, but at some point, having come home, discovered that the wife calls the child with Vanechka. So Yaroslav became Ivan.
Tkachenko lived in a friendly: both mother, and Ivan's father brought up in the boarding school, where they met, and knew the price of the family.
On the ice, the boy came out quite small: Leonid Tkachenko put his son to skates when there was no 4 years. The child's talent was discovered immediately - he began to ride, barely entering the platform. From 6 years old, Vanya began to classes with hockey and struck the coach, on the first training session scoring 4 washers. At the rink 6 times a week, Ivan drove his father, firmly decided to develop the abilities of the Son.
Vanya's parents did not deliver the hassle, was a calm child who always reported to parents, where he goes to walk and how much would return home. In conflicts with peers, the future athlete also tried not to enter into conflict, but he always gave back and his offenders, and those who tried to blow up the kids.
When Vanya graduated from the younger classes, at school №9 Yaroslavl, which now carries the name of the hockey player, have a happy change. Boys who played hockey were collected in a separate class, 5 "C", with a sports bias. Children consisted of a special schedule, thanks to which they after training did not have time for the 2nd lesson.
Often, children engaged in sports, there is no strength for lessons, but Ivan learned well. He was smart since childhood, even learned to read at 4 years old: Mom was bored with the same fairy tales in the evenings, and Tatyana advised her son himself to learn literacy. The teachers praised the ability of the child and promised to parents that a wonderful person would grow from Ivan.
Hockey
Alexander Podmetalin became the first coach of Ivan in Torpedo, but in 1992 the man was fired. The new Mentor of the Hockey Section led his players, and no previous places in the team did not find. Alexander Vladimirovich returned to Saratov and offered Tkachenko and another 2 guys to leave him and continue to train. Parents first did not want to let go of the Son, but then they remembered their own boarding school and, fastening the heart, agreed.
Comrades Ivan did not stand in favor of independent life, albeit under the supervision, and returned home, and Tkachenko remained. Sport for him was more important.
When the young man turned 15, he moved from Saratov for a long time moved to Engels, where he was playing for the local team of the 2nd League "Chemist". But soon it was necessary to return: in 1994, crime disassembly solved a lot in the country, and in one of them, the gangsters sponsored the team were shot. After that, Ivan went to Tver, where he was playing for "Vyatich", although it was difficult: the 15-year-old Youth had to go on ice with adult men who played very hard. Patience, perseverance and talent of Tkachenko led to the fact that the team coach, going to work to Moscow, called the young athlete with him.
In the Moscow "Sport Kademkluba", the hockey player fell to the eyes of Vladimir Krikunov, and he invited Ivan to go with Spartak to the game to Canada. So the guy just visited the contest abroad at the same 16.
Having finished playing "Sportacademblub", Tkachenko switched to the youth Yaroslavl team "Torpedo", but he stayed there for long - for the main composition he did not fit in growth. So the hockey player was able to play in the Volga "Motor", and in Nizhnekamsky "Neftekhimika". Ivan tried to go to the Yaroslavl "Lokomotiv", but the new coach Vladimir Vuytek again rejected him, sending Nizhny Novgorod to Torpedo.
However, soon at the "Locomotive" fee beat "Lokomotiv" dry, with a score of 5: 0, and 2 washers scored Ivan, and for two more made assists. In fact, the team won due to Tkachenko. Vuytek, realizing that the decision was wrong, in 2001 he returned the athlete in Lokomotiv.
After the arrival of Ivan to the team, the statistics "Locomotive" was confidently went up. From this year, Yaroslavl hockey players took 2 times "gold" at the championships of Russia, 2 times turned out to be 2 times and twice - on the 3rd. The talent of the athlete led to the fact that in 2002 he was enrolled in the Russian national hockey team, and after that the team took 2nd place at the World Championships in Sweden. Already at 22, Tkachenko became a silver medalist of world championship and a well-deserved master of sports.
The sports biography of Ivan in Lokomotiv also developed: in the Seasons 2008 - 2009 and 2010 - 2011, the hockey player was the vice-captain of the team, in the 2009 season - 2010 - captain. During the existence of the club, he became a record holder in the number of assholes - 178, and also scored the maximum number of points - 313.
Personal life
With his beloved woman, Marina Ivan met a child, at 9 years old: in the summer camp Vanya came up with her brother Sasha. As often happens in children, the fight has become the beginning of friendship, and also it turned out that the guys live near each other. Marina was older than Ivan for 3 years, but this did not prevent his feelings: at 16, the young man told his beloved about them, and the couple began to meet.
With the beginning of the professional career of Ivan, young people rented a room, later it became easier to live: the Yaroslavl "Lokomotiv" took the apartment with a hockey player. Leonid Tkachenko said in an interview that she was also loyalty to the son of the Son - other women, except for Marina, he did not know.
The official wife of the athlete did not become, but it did not prevent them from being family. Tkachenko was born 3 children: in 2005, Alexander's daughter appeared, in 2008 - Varvara, but the son of Ivan never saw. The widow gave birth to Kolya Tkachenko 4 months after the death of his father.
Another side of the personal life of hockey player revealed only after his tragic death. After a plane crash, it became known that Ivan for a long time anonymously provided financial assistance to the Advita Charitable Foundation, lizing huge amounts to help children suffering from severe diseases.
The latest translation of the athlete carried out shortly before death: on the day of the air crash Ivan listed 500 thousand rubles to pay for the treatment of Diana Ibrahimova, suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
And the mother athlete told that the first step to the charity Vanya did only in 6 years. Then the woman received a prize and told the son that now they are rich. The child perceived the words literally and, taking money from the wallet, distributed to children in the yard. Apparently, she considered that a secured family would not lose such an amount scary. Reasoning that the boy's gust was good, Ivan's father forbade the Son's father.
Death
The cause of Ivan's death on September 7, 2011 was a plane crash. The Yak-42d aircraft, on board which was Lokomotiv, failed after a few seconds after takeoff, faced with a radio beacon. Of the 45 people who were on board the airliner survived only one.
After the death of a hockey player in Yaroslavl, where Ivan studied, called him in his honor, and a memorable sign was established near the building.
When Ivan's life, Ivan dreamed of opening a hockey school for children, the main purpose of which will be a training process. It was not possible to make a conceived athlete, and his parents took the embodiment of the dream of her son. In 2016, construction approached the end, and the Ivan Tkachenko's children's hockey school opened the doors for future athletes.
After years after the death of a hockey player, they continue to remember. On September 7, 2018, the premiere of the documentary film "Captain Nemo", telling about Ivan Tkachenko. In "Instagram" pictures are lined with video fragments and photos of an athlete.
Also in 2018, the entrepreneur Maxim Discaneco put forward a proposal to name in honor of Ivan one of the objects in Yaroslavl. Previously, the selection fell on the square, which establishes a monument to the 100th anniversary of the WLKSM. Now the townspeople call him "meeting", but there is no official name from the square.
Awards and achievements
- 2002 - Silver winner of the World Hockey Championship
- 2002,2003, - Winner of the Russian Championship / KHL
- 2002 - Winner of the Tournament "Czech Hockey Games"
- 2003 - Winner of the Swedish Hockey Games Tournament
- 2003 - Continental Cup Silver Prize
- 2003 - Bronze Wengler Cup Word
- 2005, 2011 - Bronze medalist of the championship of Russia / KHL
- 2008, 2009 - Silver winner of the Russian Championship / KHL
- 2011 - Prize "Iron Man"
- Medal "Hurry to do good"