General Nikolai Nikolaevich
Ozerov
Male
USSR
1922-12-11
Moskwa (Moscow), USSR
1997-06-02
Moskwa (Moscow), Russia


About

Born on December 11, 1922 in Moscow in the family of the opera singer Nikolai Ozerov a year later than his brother Yuri Ozerov, who later became a film director. The great-grandson of the famous spiritual composer of the 19th century - Mikhail Vinogradov.

The Ozerov family lived in Moscow near Razgulyai - on Marksovaya Street [1]. The house in which they lived was provided to Ozerov Sr. as a state apartment from the Bolshoi Theater.

In 1934 he became the Moscow boys' tennis champion. Since 1941 - Master of Sports in tennis, since 1947 - Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.

In 1941 he entered the acting department of GITIS, from which he graduated in 1946 and went to work at the Moscow Art Theater, where he played more than 20 roles [2].

In 1947 he joined the CPSU (b).

On August 29, 1950, he made the first independent report on a football match between Dynamo and CDKA.

1950-1988 - sports commentator on radio and television. He reported from fifteen Olympic Games, thirty world hockey championships, eight world football championships and six European football championships, in total, as a commentator, he visited 49 countries of the world [2].

In 1973 he was awarded the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR.

In the late 1980s, he was elected chairman of the sports society "Spartak".


A gravestone at the Vvedenskoye cemetery.
In the early 1990s, he underwent a serious operation, since then he rarely left home. As a result of hypothermia in his youth (he fell into an ice hole in a pond on the way to hockey), he had problems with blood vessels, because of which his leg was amputated.

Died at the age of 75 on June 2, 1997. He was buried at the Vvedenskoye cemetery (21 st.).



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Archive statistics 1944 - 1956
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6


Tournament wins 1953 - USSR Nationals (Amateur)
1951 - USSR Nationals (Amateur)
1946 - USSR Nationals (Amateur)
1945 - USSR Nationals (Amateur)
1944 - USSR Nationals (Amateur)


Tournaments USSR Nationals - 1956 USSR Nationals - 1955 USSR Nationals - 1953 USSR Nationals - 1951 USSR Nationals - 1950 USSR Nationals - 1949 USSR Nationals - 1947 USSR Nationals - 1946 USSR Nationals - 1945 USSR Nationals - 1944

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