Biography
Motorsport is a combination of sports competitions and advanced industrial technologies. However, the 7-fold winner of the Rally Dakar in the class of trucks, the head of the KAMAZ-Master team and the Rally Silk Road project, Vladimir Chagin believes that the main role on the track is played by the human factor. Wurnithes on the rally athlete who received the nickname "King Dakar", was even injured.Childhood and youth
The future race car was born on January 5, 1970 in the city of Nhtva, located 50 km west of the day. In the small Motherland, Vladimir is the largest artificial pond in Europe with the surface of the water mirror of 910 hectares.
However, when the boy was a year and a half, the parents transported it to the city of Naberezhnye Chelny in the Tatar ASSR, where the construction of a car giant - the Kama Automobile Plant - enterprises, whose products were destined to glorify Vladimir. 2 years before receiving the apartment, the Chagin's family lived in the trailer in the Gypsy settlement.
In Naberezhnye Chelny, the times of Volodya Childhood, engineers and managers combined the smooth costumes and snow-white shirts with rubber boots to the knees - there were almost no soapalled sidewalks in the city. Life in the autograduer in the mid-80s is described in detail in the novel of Shamil Idyatullin "Brezhnev City".
Father Vova worked by the head of the Equipment Management Department; The work was connected with the trips, in which the man often took the firstborn. Gennady Mikhailovich discharged the magazine "Driving", gave the eldest to the son of cars and designers, subsequently led in the Volodya School of the photo compartment.
Try to charge the family "Zhiguli" the father first allowed Vladimir at the age of 6, when the boy's legs had not yet been delivered to the pedals. The children's photo of the future king Dakar drove a motorcycle was preserved. At the age of 7, Gennady Mikhailovich led the Son to the Karting Section.
However, in the late 70s of the 20th century, Vladimir changed motor racing with hockey. The future track driver did not miss a single game of the Soviet ice squad on TV, knew by heart the biographies of "desperate guys" and trained himself and participated in hockey battles.
In adolescence, Chagin returned to motor sport. In 1984, Volodya began engaged in Kamaz ATX-4 in the Avtoclub. Despite the skipping lessons due to training and the competition, the young race car studied without a triple and perfectly wrote essays, what did the innate literacy helped him. In class, Vladimir loved to sit at the last desk.
Higher education Chagin received in Kama Polytechnic Institute. Vladimir not only earned a scholarship, but also worked as a mechanic to repair cars in the "passenger motor transport enterprise KAMAZ". In 2005, Alma Mater athlete was renamed Kama State Engineering and Economic Academy, and in 2012 joined the University of Kazan. In 2021, Vladimir's native university ceased to exist.
Career
In 1996, Vladimir won the Supermaraphon "Paris - Ulyanovsk - Ulabator". After 3 years, a resident of Naberezhnye Chelny became the winner of the "Desert Challenge 1999" competition and the winner of Rally "Paris - Dakar".5 out of 7 Victories at Dakar, Vladimir Gennadyevich won in the crew, which also included the navigator Semyon Yakubov and the mechanic Sergei Savostin. In 2007, the defendant was prevented by the team - a collision with breast stones height into human growth, during which Chagin received a strong concussion of the brain. Three years earlier, the crew became the winner, despite the fact that the native of the scum was injured.
In January 2010, Vladimir Gennadyevich established the absolute record of Dakar in the number of victories of the participant at the Rally stages, sweating on this indicator of the Frenchman Stephen Petranshel, who was 54 times the staged triumph. In January 2011, the Chagin's crew, who consisted, except Vladimir Gennadevich, from Savostina and Ildar Shaysultanov, once again became the strongest for "Rally Dakar" in the class of trucks; Racing took place in Argentina and Chile.
After returning to Naberezhnye Chelny "Tsar Dakar" decided to hold a test drive and rolling fans on Kamaja, who participated in competitions, but broke his hand and treated it at the center of restorative traumatology in Kurgan. In February 2011, Chagin said that he leaves a big sport and focuses on the management of the KAMAZ Autosport with a non-profit partnership. In 2013, Vladimir Gennadyevich headed the KAMAZ-Master racing team, and after another 2 years he became the head of the Silk Road rally.
Chagin was an ambassador of the 45th World Cup of the World Prof. in the end of August 2019 in Kazan. Other representatives of the competitions, in which 1,300 participants from 63 countries were competed, became Cosmonaut Sergey Krikalev, Showman Alexander Gudkov, Cook and Restaurant Arkady Novikov, Creator of the Farm Cooperative "Pazzlavka" Boris Akimov. The goal of the championship is to instill confidence in young men and girls that a working profession is a worthy salary and respect in society. Since September 2019, Chagin - deputy of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan 6th convocation.
Personal life
At the student bench, the native of the NMY met with the future wife of Elena, who recalls that Vladimir worked very beautifully after her, gave flowers and gifts. In lovers who played the wedding on the 2nd year of the institute, two children were born - Vadim and Igor.
Now the sons of the autorecore are already adults. Vadim because of the problems with vision could not go through the father's footsteps. But the firstborn of Vladimir Gennadevich has excellent voice and hearing, he composes songs.
Igor's younger son graduated with honors from an art school, organized several exhibitions. The young man learned in the technical university, and in the 11th grade, it took 2nd place out of 40 in the republican race "Echpochmak Trophy". In July 2018, Igor Vladimirovich Chagin founded Geepard A.T. LLC, which is engaged in advertising.
Vladimir's sports career imparted an imprint on the personal life of Chagin. For the first 20 years of marriage, the spouses only once met the New Year together: the husband, as a rule, was at competitions. Vladimir Vladimir Gennadyevich saw only 2 months after birth. However, the mutual love and wisdom of Helena helped with honor to undergo testing separation and save the family.
In everyday life, Vladimir Gennadevich is a very disciplined driver that is fastened by a seat belt even during the territory of the territory. Sometimes Chagin is a little higher speed, but never confuses the street or highway with a racing track. Tsar Dakar rides only on all-wheel drive cars or on a motorcycle. Passion of her husband to two-wheeled transport shares and Elena Chagin.
Vladimir Gennadyevich retains love for hockey, regularly plays a game for real men with comrades. When the Military Driver's Clearman came to Tatarstan - Coach Victor Tikhonov, they exchanged with chagin autographs.
Vladimir Chagin now
On February 3, 2021, Chagin, together with the pilots of the KAMAZ-Master team, Dmitry Sotnikov and Eduard Nikolaev visited the Evening Urgant program. Ratchers shared with the leading interesting episodes of biographies.