Biography
Alexander Sizonenko was 30 cm lower than the highest person in the history of Robert Wozleu, but he lived for 30 years longer than the famous American. In his biography there were sports victories and filming in the cinema, the wedding and the birth of a son. Shared photos of Siemenko with Anatoly Karpov and Arvidas Sabonis are preserved. However, the final of the life of Alexander Alekseevich came tragic.Childhood and youth
The giant recognized in 1990 by the highest person in the world was born in the spring of 1959 in the family of the mechaniser. Malaya Rodina Alexander - Zaporizhia village in the maghored area of the Kherson region.
Unlike Nikolai Valuev, who in the 1st grade was above the teacher, Siazonenko in elementary school was not highlighted in growth. Everything has changed after falling from a bike. Sasha began to grow rapidly and by 11 years reached 170 cm. Mother, who did not have time to buy his son and shoes, showed a teenager to doctors.
Doctors conducted operations and put Siazonenko disappointing diagnosis - the disease of the pituitary gland, the guy will live for no more than 20 years. Sasha continued to grow and by graduation reached a height of 216 cm. Physical education teacher taught him to fall into a basketball basket. This skill was very useful to Alexander in the future.
Personal life
Happiness was a short guest in the personal life of Siazonenko. In 1986, doctors banned Alexander to play. A 27-year-old man was recognized as an invalid of the 2nd group and prescribed a pension of 63 rubles 50 kopecks. The usual Soviet pension accounted for 90-100 rubles at this time. True, the Asianenko Assets were a two-bedroom apartment in the center of Kuibyshev and two diplomas - a professional technical school ended in Ukraine before joining basketball, and the planned faculty of the Kuibyshev Economic Institute.
However, the costs of drugs and tailoring of individual clothing and shoes of the 56th size were Alexander Great. Money for food from Siazonenko almost never remained. The man was fed by the compassional neighbors, giving the cabbage to the Kochan, several potatoes.
Journalists learned about the situation. About Alexandra removed the documentary "Easy to be a Gulliver", which was circled before the artistic tapes in the cinemas of the Soviet Union. The man raised a pension to 120 rubles and gave a bed made on a furniture factory, taking into account the giant dimensions.
And most importantly, the Leningrad student Svetlana Gumenyuk flew to the city on the Volga in the city of Volga. According to the girl, she saw a film about Alexander and could not stay aside. Soon, Sasha and Light became her husband and his wife.
In 1992, the spouses hastily left Kuibyshev, who returned the historical name of Samara. The cause of flight was fraud Svetlana, after which the environment began to negatively.
A young woman took a large amount from her neighbor, which would have been enough to buy new "Zhiguli". The money spouses turned, and when it came to return the debt, bought a pure savings record in the newspaper kiosk and entered the amount of the loan there. Fraud of unlucky scams instantly uncovered. Alexander passed the case witness, and Svetlana appointed a punishment in the form of two years conditionally.
In St. Petersburg, Siezonenko and Gumenyuk have invested the money received from Sasha Samara Apartments, in equity construction, but now they are already deceived. The spouses tried to live with their parents Svetlana in Gorelovo, but the father-in-law and the mother-in-law belonged to Alexander, believing that the son-in-law would fall on their living space. The situation complicated the lack of Russian citizenship in the man.
Under the influence of turmoil, the relationship between Alexander and Svetlana began to deteriorate. Although in 1994, the spouses who walked on removable apartments were born a son, named after the Father, love and consent to the family did not return. In 1999, the pair made a divorce. Already in early childhood, Socha's son was diagnosed - heart disease.
Thanks to the troubles of the Olympic champion, Tatiana Kazankina Siazonenko gave a 2-bedroom apartment at the St. Petersburg outskirts. However, the ceilings in the new building seemed to the giant so low that the man preferred to exchange housing for 2 rooms in the old Foundation of St. Petersburg, in the house of 1882 buildings on the corner of the uprising street and the alley of Ulyana Gromovoy.
A neighbor Alexander, who owned the third room in the apartment, offered Siazonenko to buy it and become a full-awake owner. But the required amount ($ 26 thousand) did not have a pensioner-disabled.
Alexander rejected the "tempting offer" of the Germanic artist-Anatoma Güntter von Hagens to make the body of the Plate Institute. The German enhanced the fee of an inconspicuous Slavman, bringing it to $ 200 rent to Siazonenko himself and for another $ 100 former wife with his son, but a giant, fearing for his life and not wanting after the death of "becoming chucks," refused.
Alexander's neighbor sold his room to other buyers. New tenants began to refer to Siazonenko as a burden. The only joys with difficulty moving on crutches-armrests giants were the memories of sports achievements in the youth and visits of the Son on weekends.
Basketball
Criminal authority, Chairman of the Lion Foundation Yashin Otari Kwatrishvili included Siemenenko in the top five of the best Soviet athletes. In Basketball, Alexander came by chance: the guy after the end of Ptopa rode into practice in one bus with the players of the Nikolaev team "Spartak". The coach suggested that the Junior Giant join the team.Without having a single match, Sasha moved to Leningrad, where he was invited by the legendary mentor Vladimir Kondrashin. Siazonenko, on the first training session with a scoring 19 penalties, referred a great future in the Leningrad "Spartak". From 1976 to 1978, the guy played the team in the position of the center.
After the death of Alexander Belov, more stringent requirements were made to the health of basketball players. According to Kondrashin, to stay in basketball, Siemenko moved to Kuibyshev, where he played the "Builder" team, while in the mid-80s of the 20th century he did not have a hormonal failure. According to experts, Alexandra had a rare positional flair, however, because of the growth on the site, the athlete was moved enough quickly.
Death
Winter 2009-2011 was outstanding in St. Petersburg. In the courtyard, where usually went for a walk of Siezonenko, the tenants protruded in the snowdrifts a narrow path. Alexander, who first walked with a support on a stool truck, was not to pass. The man stopped going to the air, and his health deteriorated sharply.
In June 2011, Siazonenko was injured. The operation was impossible to do it, since the hospital drugs entered the conflict with the giant received permanently, and the patient began gastric bleeding. A month later, Alexander was completely immobilized home. Son, volunteers and a nurse, hired by the Basketball Club "Spartak - St. Petersburg" courted behind the man.
Alexander Alekseevich died in a dream on January 5, 2012. The attending physician of the former basketball player Gamzat Omarov formulated the cause of the death of Siazonenko as an overload of the cardiovascular system. At the time of the death, the growth of the giant was 243 cm, and the weight was 186 kg.
The funeral has passed in Prince-Vladimir Cathedral at the Petrograd side. Siazonenko buried in the Northern Cemetery of St. Petersburg, located in the village of Pargolovo, close to the graves of the Basketball player Alexander Belov and the coach of the Basketball team of the USSR, an honorary citizen of the city at the Neva Vladimir Kondrashin.
After a year and a half, Alexander Siazonenko - Jr. complained to Fontanka.Ru's information portal for trouble in which he had in an attempt to implement rooms in a communal service, which was inherited from the Father. According to the young man, barely overshadled threshold of the age of majority, the buyer of real estate, and the native mother, at that time was in the detention facility on charges of fraud. The first shot along the windows of the ill-fated apartment, and the second sent the son of the funeral wreath.
According to the buyer of Maxim Chudanovich, Mother and Son concluded a contract for the sale of rooms before Alexander Jr. entered into their inheritance, received a deposit, and then thought to sell housing. Instead of returning the obtained 200 thousand rubles., The young man, with the support of the grandfather's grandfather, raised to Maxim Police.
Achievements
Personal records in one match:
- 39 points
- 15 blocks
- 5 interception
- 12 selection on your shield