Maryutin, Friedrich Mikhailovich. Attack. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1951).
Born on October 7, 1924 in Astrakhan (on a ship traveling from Baku to Astrakhan). Died on September 10, 2010 in St. Petersburg.
He played for the Zenit team. Podlipki (after 1928 - the village of Kalininsky, after 1938 - the city of Kaliningrad, after 1996 - the city of Korolev) Moscow region, "Kalininets" Sverdlovsk, "Zenit" Leningrad (1947 - 1956), "Avangard" "(later "Admiralteets") Leningrad (1957 - 1958).
He played 1 match for the USSR national team (including 1 match for the USSR Olympic team).
He also played 1 unofficial match for the USSR national team.
Participant in the 1952 Olympic Games
« Coach in the Admiralty team Leningrad. Coach of the Zenit Leningrad team. Head coach of SKA Leningrad. Senior coach of the LOMO Leningrad club. Senior coach of the Komsomolets club Leningrad.
Senior coach at the Zenit school Leningrad.
I HATE LOING ALL MY ENTIRE LIFE.”
Among the readers of Nevsky Vremya there are many people of the older generation and they do not need to explain who Friedrich Maryutin is. Experienced fans even now recognize him when they meet, vividly recalling his virtuoso, cunning game, moves that were unexpected for opponents and convenient for partners, well-calibrated passes, after which it was difficult not to score, and, of course, goals. Today, the Honored Master of Sports, one of the best forwards in the entire history of Zenit, Friedrich Mikhailovich Maryutin, turns 75 years old. Didn't part with the ball
Throughout my childhood I never parted with a ball, I played all the time - be it a rag one, a rubber one, even a tennis one. I don’t remember that we boys fought, we played all the time - street to street, class to class in football, volleyball, basketball, in winter hockey, bandy, of course. The town of Podlipki near Moscow, where I grew up, then called Kaliningrad, and now Korolev, was very athletic. There were many playgrounds and fields, but there were so many people wanting to play that there wasn’t enough room for us, the younger ones. It’s good that there was a forest near the city, and there were many clearings in it, so we went there. This is probably how I worked out many of the technical techniques.
Did you often see football performed by masters back then?
There is a large defense plant in Kaliningrad, where the Zenit team was located, and the Moscow clubs Spartak, Torpedo, CDKA often came to visit it. I especially remember from those matches Grigory Fedotov, who was just starting out at that time, playing not as a center forward, but as a left winger. He was an amazing football player.
In your youth, did you take football seriously, did you think of it as a profession?
Of course not. My father did not approve of my passion for sports, he believed that it was taking time away from more serious activities, and he often grumbled. My mother once bought boots in a Moscow store and gave them to me secretly from my father, so that I could slowly put them on and run to training. I didn’t intend to become a football player, after school I went to study to become a turner, and a master at the school, and now I remember his last name - Chervyakov, he played as a defender in the factory team. That’s why I didn’t give up football, I studied turning with my mentor and played under his guidance. When the war began, our plant was evacuated to Sverdlovsk.
Throughout the war I worked as a turner. It was hard, I was very tired, we worked two shifts, we were hungry... I remembered sports again at the end of the war, when in 1944 a team was organized at the plant, in which I played football and bandy. After the victory, my father said: “Go study, you’ve already worked.”
I entered a physical education technical school.
At that time, the Zenit sports society united teams from defense industry factories. The People's Commissar of this industry, Dmitry Ustinov, ordered a gathering of Zenit teams from all over the Soviet Union at the beginning of 1946 in order to select the best players for the Leningrad Zenit. Then they took Ivan Komarov from the Taganrog team to Leningrad, and me and Valentin Kovalev from Sverdlovsk. True, if Komarov and Kovalev immediately started playing, then Zenit senior coach Mikhail Butusov did not like me at first. He didn’t want to take me at all, but he was convinced by authoritative players, winners of the 1944 USSR Cup - Alexey Yablochkin, Viktor Bodrov, Nikolai Kopus, Alexey Pshenichny. I played the whole season for the reserve team, I don’t know why Butusov didn’t like me, each coach has his own view of the players.
Did you come to Zenit as a ready-made player or did you have to learn a lot?
I won’t say that I have no shortcomings at all. I didn’t have a strong blow, but I still didn’t feel that I was weaker than others. Ivan Talanov, who replaced Butusov in next year. In 1947, we played the first match with Torpedo in Moscow, Talanov put me in the starting lineup, I scored a goal, Zenit won. And from that moment on, the game took off for me.
Your role - insider or welterweight striker - has long ceased to exist.
What were your responsibilities on the field? The inside players played roughly the same way as the current attacking midfielders. It was necessary to attack and work from behind, to connect the center forward with
wingers , move continuously. Before my debut, Nikolai Pavlovich Smirnov played the right welterweight, and Boris Yakovlevich Levin-Kogan played the right winger. He was very resilient, fought well for the ball, and the coaches moved Boris to midfield, Smirnov began to play in his place, and they put me in Smirnov’s position. Nikolai Smirnov and I understood each other’s game perfectly, often changing places, confusing the defenders - I went to the edge, and he moved to the center. Zenit's midfielders rarely went forward; they tried to get the ball to us as quickly as possible.
I liked it better when they scored on my serves. Back then, it was not customary to kiss after a goal, or to make a big mess on the field, but I always ran up to congratulate, shake hands, and they thanked me for the pass. We had a powerful attack - Ivan Komarov, Anatoly Korotkov, Alexander Orlov, then Sasha Ivanov started playing, there was someone to pass the ball to. I scored less often myself, and somehow it turned out that “my” team was Moscow “Spartak”.
He got it from me almost every year, once I scored three goals for them in Moscow when we won 4:0.
In the first post-war years, the Moscow clubs CDKA and Dynamo fought for the title of USSR champion; several other teams, including Zenit, fought for third place, but the team never won a medal. Why was it not possible to achieve success?
Several times we were close to the prize place - in 1949, 1950, and in 1953 we only had to win one match - in Vilnius, against the local Spartak, which was in last place and had already lost all chances to stay in class "A", as the major league was called then. We also win bronze medals. But the people of Vilnius, although they no longer seemed to need anything, fought with all their might and won. It's a shame, I am an Honored Master of Sports, but I don't have a single medal. It’s hard to say what we lacked, in my opinion they changed coaches at Zenit too often. During the time that I played, we were trained by: Mikhail Pavlovich Butusov, Ivan Mikhailovich Talanov, Konstantin Ivanovich Lemeshov, Georgy Semenovich Lasin, Vladimir Ivanovich Lemeshov, Nikolai Mikhailovich Lyukshinov, Arkady Ivanovich Alov. Every two years, or even more often, a new coach. Everyone has their own views on football, on players, everyone changed something, did it in their own way. The managers did not have the patience to wait until things went well for them, and they fired one after another. Maybe Konstantin Lemeshov, whom we loved and respected very much, would have been able to make Zenit a winner, but he died of heart attack
before reaching fifty.
Football was a real holiday
We didn't treat football as a job. For us, the game has always been a joy. Since childhood, I hated losing any games, and sometimes in a friendly match someone would say: “Why break?”
The people loved football very much, the stadiums were always crowded. Even when the Kirov Stadium with almost one hundred thousand seats was opened in Leningrad, tickets were not available. We, the football players, were allowed to buy 10 tickets, no more, and, of course, there weren’t enough of them to give to friends.
They say that there were never real fans in the Leningrad leadership, so they waited a very long time for big victories. How did the “city fathers” feel about football in those years?
I don’t know about others, but Pyotr Popkov, the first secretary of the regional party committee, loved football. Twice a year - before the start of the season and after the closure - Zenit was hosted in Smolny. They listened to requests and wishes.
We asked for help with housing, about separate apartments and did not think about it; we were happy about a room in a communal apartment. Food was poor back then; they asked us to give food to the team when we went to training camps or matches. There was no place to carry out quarantine in Leningrad; the base in Udelnaya was built much later; we were allowed to live in one of the state dachas on Kamenny Island. Popkov, I remember, always answered requests directly - yes, yes, no, no, there was no such thing: “We will consider this issue, weigh it, think about it.”
They called me to Spartak, but somehow they didn’t try very hard to lure me in - they didn’t promise big money, nor apartments. Then to “Torpedo”, but if “Spartak” is a famous club and I thought about their offer, then the Torpedo team didn’t particularly shine then, “Zenith” played no weaker and I immediately refused. I’ve already settled down in Leningrad, my wife is from St. Petersburg, and she didn’t want to leave anywhere. In the Air Force, the team that Stalin’s son, Vasily, looked after, I was almost taken by force, but the People’s Commissar of the Defense Industry, Dmitry Ustinov, intervened. Stalin valued him very much, and Vasily did not quarrel with him, fearing his father’s anger.
Olympic passions
If the son of the leader of the people was crazy about football and hockey, then, as we know, Stalin himself was not interested in sports. Only once - after the Olympics in Helsinki, he showed attention to football, angry because of the defeat of the USSR national team by the team of Yugoslavia, a country that was in a state of cold war with the Soviet Union after the conflict between two dictators - Stalin and Tito. Could our team have performed better?
I am sure that if we had gotten past the Yugoslavs, we would have played the Hungarians in the final. It would have been very difficult to win against them, the Hungarian team was shining then, defeating the British, Italians, they had stars - Puskás, Kocsis, Tzibor, Grosic. Others
strong teams
it wasn’t at the Olympics.
The 1952 season was completely built for the national team. Is it true that the players are overtrained and burnt out?
The Yugoslavs had a very strong attack, but their defense was not so reliable. It was possible to beat them... I remember there at the stadium the clock was next to the scoreboard, counting down 45 minutes. When the Yugoslavs scored the fifth goal, there was less than half an hour left, then we finally got excited, there was nothing to lose. And they pressed the Yugoslavs to the goal, Vasily Trofimov pulled one goal back, then Vsevolod Bobrov scored two goals, there was a minute left, we took a corner. Midfielder Alexander Petrov - he played well with his head, asked me to provide backup, and he went into the penalty area. Beskov crossed, Petrov jumped higher than everyone else and made the score 5:5. IN Extra time We had to win, we attacked and hit the post. I didn’t play in the replay, I watched how we started well, Bobrov scored quickly, then the Yugoslavs equalized the score, although it seemed to me that there was an offside position, then the English referee Ellis awarded a controversial penalty, and we scored the third goal into our own goal .
There was a lot of pumping going on before the match. Before the coaches have time to give instructions for the game, party workers, Komsomol workers begin to speak out, saying that we have no right to lose, that the match is of enormous political importance... But that after the Olympics the CDSA team will be dispersed, the coaches will be punished, deprived of their titles, no one expected this. This wave did not affect me; the title of Honored Master of Sports was not removed from me. Only about ten years ago, when they were filming the movie “Goal at the Spassky Gate” and the director met with me, I learned from him that they wanted to repress all the players of the national team and send them to camps.
Petersburg pensioner
Maryutin finished playing at Admiraltyets, where he was invited by Ivan Talanov, who risked returning to football the forward who had suffered a serious injury - a torn cruciate ligament, and who turned out to be unnecessary to Zenit. The Admiralty team benefited from the experience and skill of Frida, as Leningrad fans lovingly called him, in one season new team
entered the class of the strongest, and for several years it worthily defended the honor of Leningrad, but by decision from above it was unexpectedly disbanded. Maryutin is a modest man, for many years he worked as a coach at the Zenit school, in city clubs, after retiring, he worked as a night watchman at the Zenit base in Udelnaya. Now one of the most city on the Neva - an ordinary St. Petersburg pensioner. Friedrich Mikhailovich does not give up football, he tries not to miss Zenit matches. The club does not forget its veterans, helps, gives gifts for the holidays, one of them was a trip to Moscow for the Russian Cup final, which was victorious for St. Petersburg.
Mikhail GRIGORIEV. Newspaper "Nevskoe Vremya", 1999
PLANE FROM STALIN
A neat St. Petersburg grandfather wanders slowly along his Vasilyevsky island - and no one looks after him. Nobody will call out. He won't run up for an autograph. And the grandfather could have told, if asked, about the greatest match with the Yugoslavs at the 1952 Olympics, which the USSR team lost 1:5, but magically equalized the score. He played that match from the first to the last minute. And he remembers everything as it is now.
Grandfather from Vasilievsky can tell you a lot. He can take out an album with yellowed cards from a drawer. Open at random. Take out one, with frayed edges: “Here I am. And this is Comrade Mao, do you recognize? Let’s say hello...”
Can he talk about how he scored three goals against Spartak - who in the history of Zenit will repeat that achievement? Or about how a plane specially sent by Vasily Stalin was waiting for him at the Leningrad airfield - just play, only in the Air Force... I’m ready to tell you even with my larynx removed. Four hours - in an intelligible whisper. I have never had an interview like this before.
And when Friedrich Mikhalych gets tired, he takes out “Belomor”: “You need to clear your throat, it’s difficult to speak...” He takes a deep drag. Much to the displeasure of his wife.
He walks along Vasilyevsky Island. To the bakery. Leisurely. Nobody looks behind you.
PARTY BAPTISM
Do you know why I am Friedrich? This is history! My father worked in the Astrakhan shipping company, my mother was about to give birth - and they ended up on the ship Astrakhan - Baku. On the way back she gave birth, and the entire ship's party cell began to come up with a name for me. By voting.
Options?
Karl Marx. Friedrich Engels. Vladimir Lenin. So I could become Karl. But they decided - Friedrich... They sailed to Astrakhan and wrote it down.
And then Friedrich Maryutin became a Zenit player...
Oh! So this is a whole story! You are interested?
During the war we lived in Podlipki. Such a sporty village... Then they evacuated to Sverdlovsk. Where I started working as a turner. I spent the whole war at the machine - only now they gave me a medal, before they couldn’t find the documents in the archives... I entered the FZU, and there was a football section nearby. A fellow worker at Uralmash matched me. And in 1945, Minister Ustinov issued an order: to recruit reinforcements for the Leningrad team “Zenith”.
Which just won the Cup... They recruit guys and send them to Frunze. "Friedrich, are you coming with us?" - “Where should I go, I’m studying!”
- “Let’s go, everything’s paid for...” Seven or eight teams gathered in Frunze - and all “Zenith”. Izhevsk, Taganrog. ..
They gave you a T-shirt.
They didn't give it out then. If you win back, you return... Zenit plays among themselves, and Zenit, the main one, sits in the stands. Browsing. Michal Palych Butusov himself selected.
Interesting character.
Interesting, interesting, but he didn’t recognize me as a football player.
He loved healthy people, like himself. The Leningrad boys themselves persuaded him to take me. Apparently they liked me. Another friend of mine, Kovalev, was taken away.
DOUBLE ROOM
And you reached Leningrad.
Yes. Then the double was just revived. The city, of course, gives a strange impression - it seems to be beautiful, but I have not yet recovered from the blockade. Life was pretty bad.
Oh, not enough... In a double - 1100, in the base 1200 - 1400 rubles. But they were still paid from the collection, but what was the collection for us? You can’t talk to Butusov one on one, he didn’t let him come to you. The guy was tough, difficult... He used to raise his voice! And Zenit's season went poorly. When I go to Finland, they don’t take me with them... January ’47 - Butusov is removed. Talanov and Lyukshinov come to take his place. Lyukshinov, by the way, is now about ninety years old, can barely walk, and gives all his lectures at the institute... We went to a training camp in Gudauta.
Knead the dirt. Near Sochi, near Leselidze, CDKA base in Sukhumi - there is someone to play with... And they started playing me in the main lineup. Right welterweight.
By the way, who was the hardest player to play against in your life?
That's how to say it. Someone beat me, and someone played... Gagua from Dynamo Tbilisi just beat me. I couldn’t tell where the ball was, where the legs were. A terrible man... Gorokhov also beat me, although in life we were friends. I, he says, am also hungry... And as a spectator, I saw the most terrible injury of that time. Leningrad "Dynamo" played with "Torpedo". Alov, the future judge, broke Sashka Sevidov. Oh, how unpleasant it was, terrible... I went straight to his knee, turning everything around. And the player Sevidov was one of the first in our generation - handsome, smart!
And you started playing in the main lineup...
First, our Podlipkin team came to Gudauty for a training camp. They saw me: “It’s good to itch for years in the double, come to us!” They were just given class "B". “We’ll give you an apartment, you’ll move your parents...” If, I answer, I don’t play at this training camp, I’ll go with you. And then Zenit will somehow send my documents. But it went, it went - he started playing... He stayed.
And now you remember how they played, how they scored...
I remember. For example, how the first games of the championship were once played in Tbilisi.
According to the calendar, we got Dynamo, Spartak... And we brought eight points out of eight from there - who expected this from Leningrad? Moscow started talking about us. Leonid Ivanov, of course, is great. Well defended. I remember how they won against Spartak either 5:2 or 5:3. I scored three goals.
Recently Zenit played with Spartak - that’s how they remembered my record. They wrote a note, called it a “hat-trick” - they didn’t even know such words before...
Was Salnikov playing for Spartak then?
But of course! He was a good man, a great friend of mine...
She called. Things went well with Torpedo. We were leaving the training camp, there was a transfer in Moscow, and Maslov sent someone to pick me up at the station. Wearing only a T-shirt and ski trousers, they took me to Viktor Aleksandrovich’s home. He knew how to persuade... As I remember now, the furniture in his apartment is black. I don’t remember what they promised, but I got off. "I'll think about it. I haven't decided yet..."
Didn't your soul lie?
She was lying down! Especially when they kicked me out of Zenit. That's when everything came to mind. My wife was a survivor of the blockade, she said everything - it’s better here, here it’s ours, it’s dear... With “Torpedo” everything quickly died out. Later, from Spartak they sent Seryozha Salnikov: “Come with me, you’ll see for yourself what it’s like...” My wife and son stopped nagging - but I went anyway. There were three of us friends - me, Salnikov and Kolya Smirnov... Kolya persuaded me. You will see with your own eyes, he says. In Moscow, Salnikov immediately: “To the Metropol!” - “Come on...” - “No, to the Metropol!” We had a nice time. Although Seryozha drank little. “Spartak” only promised to organize a room for me then.
Why should I change room to room? And at home I’m crying, they don’t want any Moscow! And then they came for me from Stalin...
COMRADE STALIN When you remember, you will shudder... The Air Force team was created. They sent an administrator, former football player
from CDKA. The wife again: “I won’t go, I won’t go...” And he said: “The plane is waiting, let’s fly!”
Did they send for you especially?
Yes! Vasily Stalin sent! This administrator and I were flying together.
I refused: “I don’t want to go to Moscow, I’ve already been…” - “Stalin will crush me, he said - an order to bring Maryutin!” And it was night outside - and they flew away... I felt like I was under arrest.
The hairstyle is a little similar. Thin. A little with rowan. Reddish. How alive! They brought me to a residence not far from the Garden Ring, there were a lot of people there. What I didn’t like afterwards was one of his tricks... Stalin arrived, a young woman came down from the second floor. Maybe his wife, maybe someone else... He says something to him, and he curses at her three floors high! I got scared... And he starts talking to me. “You will play for us. Have you seen the cottages I built for the guys?” And along the way they showed me two-story houses. “Each is for two families. You will live here. Write a statement.”
- “Still, Leningrad won’t let go.” - “He’ll let me go!”
I got scared and wrote. Vasily takes my statement: “Sit here, wait. I went to the Committee!” They brought him a glass of vodka on the path, he slammed it! I ate and went. He called out to his friends as they walked: “Feed Maryutin, give him something to drink, put him to bed in the billiard room...” I was left alone for a while, let me think, I’ll see what’s behind the curtain. I looked and there were dogs lying near the phones. Shepherd and boxer. And dogs for me are worse than bears! I've been terribly afraid since I was a child! At least, I think, someone came and sat with me...
Didn't Stalin drink with you?
In front of the Committee he pours two glasses: “Come on!” I don’t drink, I answer.
“Who was in the Metropol with Salnikov?” How did you find out?! I had to drink... He comes from the Central Committee - he’s furious! This one, he says, Kosoy ruined the whole thing for me. And Kosoy - do you know who?
No. I believed until the very end. The celebrations were canceled for the next day, I’m lying at home. And the next night I didn’t sleep. Back to the institute. Go, they say, to Pyatigorsk, on the dirt... You seem to have gotten stronger there. And no attention from Zenit! Absolutely!
Forgot it right there?
Forgot. Broken and broken, somersault yourself. And I started training on my own.
He lived on Suvorovsky, ran cross-country shoes along Mykinskaya Street. Long, long.
I feel it’s not right... I went with Zenit to the training camp in Yalta. Already there my meniscus popped out, and they sent me straight from the training camp with a stick.
The leg did not straighten. They called and got me a job in Moscow. The then famous Professor Lange operated on me at Petrovka. And I saw everything - they did it under local anesthesia... From the cruciate, he says, “no beginning, no end.”
Actually torn! “We’ll fix your side ears, you’ll walk normally...” They told my wife: I’m done with big-time sports. But I didn't give up. Football is my life! Zenit went to Czechoslovakia but they didn’t take me.
I left for training, my wife was home alone - suddenly I got a call. The chairman of the regional council "Zenit", such Shumeiko, is a big shot out of the blue. “Tell Friedrich not to go to training tomorrow. But to go to the Bolshevik plant for an internship with Levin-Kogan. They have organized a school there.” She was entrusted with such a mission - me from big football conduct.
Did they send you as a coach?
Who will take it? And they didn’t give me a penny! They acted meanly... And we have a child, nothing but savings - if only we had known that this would happen, we would have snuggled up somewhere... Alov then came to Zenit as a coach and began to free himself from everyone with whom he played . He kicked me out, Lenya Ivanov.
I can imagine the confusion.
Horror! The dark streak lasted for a year and a half.
And what did you do?
He went into trade, selling motorcycles, but didn’t last long there. They promised to make the car quickly, but my wife got scared and said: we don’t need any car... And in 1957 I came home and Talanov was sitting there. Former coach"Zenith".
He treated me fabulously and respected me very much. I know, he says, trouble has come. “Yes, Ivan Mikhalych...” - “They’re about to organize a team at the Admiralteets plant, I’ll put you there!” And he hired me as a playing coach.
Yes, they issued it retroactively so that I would receive three thousand in allowances. Huge money for me then.
And how far have you played?
Up to the major league, class "A" - how did the "Admiralty" go beat everyone! We won the pulka, reached the top level, then took last place, went back to the pulka, won again - came back... The whole Union laughed at our differences. Our plant director was a good man, Khlopotnov.
I didn’t understand football, but I loved it terribly... And when we reached the highest level for the second time, we dispersed “Admiralteets”. Half of the players went to Zenit, half to Dynamo.
And did you play against Zenit for Admiralteets?
But of course! True, we lost to them. The photograph remains - Sasha Ivanov and I, two captains, shaking hands. .. But they beat Kyiv 5:1!
OLYMPICS
With Khomich. They lived in the same room, I was still amazed at how obsessed the person was with photography. But I got along especially with the young people. And Bobrov, by the way, was not with us. They didn't take it. Then they just connected. I recovered, started playing, and then there was a telegram: “Urgently to Moscow!” I played some friendly match with the Romanians, they looked at me: I seemed healthy... And Arkadyev coached us. Yakushin was not there.
Many people laughed at Arkadyev.
Let them laugh - the smartest man! Erudite. He knew how to approach each player... He wouldn’t swear. Lemeshev Konstantin Ivanovich worked for us at Zenit - the same. They were friends, by the way. Arkadyev would come up and quietly say: “You should run...” And I feel so ashamed, I can’t describe it. And what “lieutenants” he had! Everyone was loud-mouthed, but he calmly talked to them. Whether in the morning or afternoon, he comes up with new exercises. But closer to the Olympics, some kind of misfortune happened - Yakushin was included in the team. His irreconcilable enemy in football. I don’t know how they got along in life... They said then that Beria insisted. Georgians immediately appeared on the team. Lots of Georgians. Just before the Olympics.
Yakushin loved Georgians...
He “loved”... Beria loved! Can you really argue with him?
Have you seen Beria?
Never live. And it’s good that I didn’t see it... Then they came to me to film a documentary and told me that after the Olympics we were all supposed to be exiled. Only Vasily Stalin stood up.
Did you get along with Yakushin?
I had no contact with him. Just before leaving for the Olympics, I go and say hello to the guys, and he’s standing there. He saw me: “Why did you come to this team? Let’s come to us, to Dynamo Moscow!” Somehow by the way.
“Thank you...” I answer. We didn't communicate anymore.
Wasn’t the “deserved” status removed from you, like from others?
And then I was just a “master”. In 1949 they assigned me, I immediately became one of the “33 best”. While I was playing, I always came in. Whoever is number one in his position gets paid three thousand extra. The second is two and a half, the third is two thousand. I mostly received two. I was rarely number two, and never first. Nikolaev was often first in my place. Good man. What a joker! Is he alive and well now?
Sort of.
HEROIC DRAW
Were you a famous person in Leningrad?
They loved me. Let the old one say... Wife, did you love me? The older generation still remembers. There are few of them, but they are remembered. But I can’t communicate, I have my larynx removed! I started smoking about four years ago, but my wife curses and has no strength. It was a relief, you could take a hundred grams at night after football - but now the doctors have forbidden it. After eye surgery. Until the stitches are removed - no, no.
Till December. I didn’t know the player had a cigarette. I loved football very much! And he didn't like to lose. He gave his all.
We didn’t talk about Helsinki on ’52. Was there really an Olympic village behind barbed wire?
No, no... But there was a village where only teams from the socialist camp lived.
The clearing was terrible; football players, cannonball throwers and javelin throwers practiced there.
And the rest of the glades are perfect! We didn’t really go out into the city until they took us to Kotka. Port town. There they beat the Bulgarians 2:1 - but only I watched that match from the bench... The entire lineup was redrawn: Ivanov in goal, Tenyagin from Dynamo Leningrad, Bobrov, Beskov... I don’t even know who appointed Kostya Beskov in my place , left welterweight. And there were no replacements at that time.
Was it uncomfortable? Oh, it's uncomfortable! At least Ilyin played well against the Yugoslavs in his place. 5:5, but they didn’t put me up for a replay. They didn’t even say - I played poorly, well... The first match with the Yugoslavs is memorable.
Why is everyone silent? Maybe the Yugoslavs remember, but ours have forgotten! Everyone starts with the 1956 Olympics, when they won! They don’t even remember us, as if we didn’t exist. Just say, “yes, we lost...” They played poorly. At the replay there were new disturbances - Chkauseli came out, a Georgian. I don’t think he was at the meeting either.
By the break we were losing 1:4. We come to the locker room, the management is shaking - anticipating a scolding... Arkadyev - he calmed us down more. This, he says, is a game - in 45 minutes you can do great things. We just started the second half - we get the fifth goal... 1:5! Half an hour left until the end! Where did we get our strength from?
Where?
Yes, someone would explain it to me! Let's go, let's go, let's go... And I especially remember the last ball. Trofimov, in my opinion, was taking a corner, and Sashka Petrov, a midfielder from CDKA, shouted to me: “You’re short, move away - I’ll take your place!”
And scores with his head - 5:5! And in the extra round they should have been beaten altogether. Trofimov moved to the left, crossed... Nikolaev hit the goalkeeper.
And we all went into the Yugoslav penalty area. Press on. Beskov, it seems, still hit the post - but you’ll have to ask Kostya yourself in Moscow... Were the Yugoslavs good? Yes!..
Good team
! I dreamed about the replay for months afterwards.
They didn’t let us watch the Olympics, they sent us home on the first train. And there were terribly bad premonitions - at the same time, no matter what newspaper you opened, there were only caricatures of Tito. With an axe. We immediately learned that CDKA had been crossed out of the calendar and sent to Kalinin. Nyrkova there - and he was a good defender.
Exactly! How did I forget? The Hungarians really wanted to play us in the final. And beat! In friendly games, we scratched them... But the Hungarians were stronger than the Yugoslavs. In its prime. The British were torn apart. Puskás, Kocsis, Hidegkuti...
Do you regret anything in life?
That he didn’t go to Moscow. When they scared me from Zenit, I immediately thought: oh, in vain... And then I worked as a night watchman at the Zenit base in Udelnaya. From there he retired.
Did Zenit know who was guarding them?
They knew. Just in 1984, they became champions, they celebrated in the restaurant - so Sadyrin stood up: “This victory is a gift for your 60th birthday, Friedrich Mikhalych!”
And now Misha Biryukov, my neighbor, sometimes gives me a lift from Petrovsky.
It's already difficult for me...
The history of Zenit in faces
Right winger, inside
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Friedrich Mikhailovich was born on a ship traveling from Baku to Astrakhan. He received his name in honor of Friedrich Engels (the decision on the name of the newborn was made right in the wardroom, after heated debates of the party cell of the ship), he took his first steps in football in the Moscow region, but, having devoted his entire playing and post-playing life to our city, he has long He has already become a native Leningrader for everyone. Although the start of the 21-year-old player’s career at Zenit was very difficult...
At the beginning of 1946, under the auspices of the Minister of Armaments D. F. Ustinov (the future Minister of Defense of the USSR during the times of developed stagnation), a large gathering of football teams from all over the Union was held in the southern city of Frunze (Bishkek), representing the departmental DSO "Zenith". The goal is to select the strongest players for the industry’s football flagship from Leningrad. Then half a dozen Zenits from all over the country gathered, began to measure their strength with each other, and the “big” Zenit, from Leningrad, was sitting in full force in the stands with its coach, Mikhail Butusov. They sit and evaluate the players, select them... This is how Komarov, Kovalev, Falin and Maryutin ended up in Leningrad - almost all of them subsequently played a significant role in the history of the main Leningrad team.
Later Friedrich Mikhailovich will recall: Butusov loved healthy people, like himself. The Leningrad boys themselves persuaded him to take me. Apparently they liked me Maryutin first appeared in the main team of Zenit. In his first game with the Moscow Torpedo, the young striker completely tormented the defenders who were looking after him, scored a goal, made an assist, and after such a bright debut, he firmly secured his place in the team for many years.
Low, light and maneuverable, Frida with a strong blow he didn’t have it, he usually didn’t get into the jam at the goal, he didn’t stand out with any special jumping ability or confident head play, and he was noticeably “one-legged.” But he was distinguished by exceptional mobility, high technique, a sharp explosive burst and excellent vision of the field. A master of assists, fast, nimble and agile, he feinted and weaved along the entire front of the attack, looking for weakness in the enemy’s defensive ranks, where sharp, targeted, sighted passes instantly followed. And these passes were good, and his partners were waiting for them, having scored, perhaps, most of their goals from his passes. However, during his football career, Maryutin managed to score a lot of goals, entering the top ten Zenit scorers of all time. Very energetic and efficient, Maryutin flew all over the field, from penalty area to penalty area, managing not only to organize or complete the team’s attack, but also to help his defense in every possible way. Due to his unimpressive size, he rarely came into contact with his opponent, but he was perfectly able to take advantage of the slightest mistake in receiving and handling the ball, deftly “robbing” him, as soon as he hesitated, just slightly letting the ball go away from him.
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I liked it better when they scored on my serves. Back then, it was not customary to kiss after a goal, or to make a big mess on the field, but I always ran up to congratulate, shake hands, and they thanked me for the pass.
The Zenit player recalled
Then, until 1956, lists of the 33 best were compiled irregularly, but the Zenit “eight” was invariably included in the published lists: in 1948 at No. 3, in 1950 and 51 at No. 2, inferior in this football “ table of ranks” only to the standard two-wire insider of the eternal champion of those years CDKA, the well-deserved and over-deserved Valentin Nikolaev.
Loyalty to the club
As usual, the capital’s clubs, primarily Moscow Torpedo, Spartak and VVS, were keenly interested in Maryutin. Having successfully facilitated the transition of Boris Chuchelov from Zenit to Spartak several years ago, former Zenit player Sergei Salnikov decided to facilitate the transition of Maryutin to his current team, but this time he did not achieve success. The assertive Torpedo coach Viktor Maslov also failed to come to an agreement with the Zenit forward. Although he really wanted to get the Leningrad insider into the ranks of his team. Friedrich Mikhailovich recalls:
Wearing only a T-shirt and ski trousers, they took me to Viktor Aleksandrovich’s home. He knew how to persuade... As I remember now, the furniture in his apartment was black. I don’t remember what they promised, but I got off. "I'll think about it. I haven't decided yet..."
It was only from the annoying attention of Air Force Commander-in-Chief Vasily Stalin that the footballer was unable to escape, and, brought to Moscow on a “chartered” special flight, Maryutin, under the heavy gaze of General Vasily, right in his office with a trembling hand, signed an application to transfer to the Air Force. However, the Minister of Heavy Engineering Ustinov again intervened in the matter, who managed to defend the leading player of his team from the encroachments of the almighty general. Maryutin remained in Leningrad
- Didn't Stalin drink with you?
In front of the Committee he pours two glasses: “Come on!” I don’t drink, I answer. “Who was in the Metropol with Salnikov?” How did you find out?! I had to drink... He comes from the Central Committee - he’s furious! This one, he says, Kosoy ruined the whole thing for me. And Kosoy - do you know who?
- Who?
Ustinov. Minister of Heavy Engineering. Vasily Ustinov was afraid, he and his father, Joseph, were close... Ustinov heard about me: “I won’t give up a single one from Leningrad!” Vasily made some noise, and I thought: if they opened the door for me, I can get out of here. How I ran away, how I got to the station... And at Zenit they didn’t even know that I was going somewhere. I returned and thought: I won’t go anywhere else. Get lost. And then the Air Force recruited good players.
Career in the USSR national team
As a member of the national team, he participated in famous match with the Yugoslav team at the 52 Olympics in Helsinki. The one in which our team was losing 1:5 28 minutes before the end, but managed to level the score. Boris Arkadyev did not include Maryutina in the squad for the repeat game with the Yugoslavs, which many experts still recognize as one of the mistakes of the great coach. All the “repressions” carried out after the match did not affect Maryutin in any way, and he was soon awarded the title of ZMS. The last one in the entire history of Zenit during the Soviet times...
In total, Friedrich Mikhailovich Maryutin played 2 games (1 official) as part of the USSR national football team.
The Yugoslavs had a very strong attack, but their defense was not so reliable. It was possible to beat them... I remember there at the stadium the clock was next to the scoreboard, counting down 45 minutes. When the Yugoslavs scored the fifth goal, there was less than half an hour left, then we finally got excited, there was nothing to lose. And they pressed the Yugoslavs to the goal, Vasily Trofimov pulled one goal back, then Vsevolod Bobrov scored two goals, there was a minute left, we took a corner. Midfielder Alexander Petrov - he played well with his head, asked me to provide backup, and he went into the penalty area. Beskov crossed, Petrov jumped higher than everyone else and made the score 5:5. In extra time we should have won, we attacked and hit the post. I didn’t play in the replay, I watched how we started well, Bobrov scored quickly, then the Yugoslavs equalized the score, although it seemed to me that there was an offside position, then the English referee Ellis awarded a controversial penalty, and we scored the third goal into our own goal .
There was a lot of pumping going on before the match. Before the coaches have time to give instructions for the game, party workers, Komsomol workers begin to speak out, saying that we have no right to lose, that the match is of enormous political importance... But that after the Olympics the CDSA team will be dispersed, the coaches will be punished, deprived of their titles, no one expected this. This wave did not affect me; the title of Honored Master of Sports was not removed from me. Only about ten years ago, when they were filming the movie “Goal at the Spassky Gate” and the director met with me, I learned from him that they wanted to repress all the players of the national team and send them to camps.
End of career
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A severe knee injury in 1955 forced him to retire from football. Although he recovered from the injury and began to play, he was... no longer needed at Zenit.
I didn’t leave Zenit - they “left” me. 54th year. I’m in great shape, tomorrow I’m getting ready to celebrate my 30th birthday... At the Kirov stadium we’re playing for the Cup with some class “B” team... Probably, it wasn’t on purpose that the guy broke me. I didn't even see him! I’m standing on one leg, receiving the ball with the other - and he came running from the side and turned me around on his supporting leg. It was scary to look at! Everything flew away - both the meniscus and the cruciate... My wife ran out onto the field and helped put him on a stretcher. And her father worked at a traumatology institute. They brought him to him, they said he had to be hospitalized. No way, I answer, I’ll go home.
In 1959–1961 he worked as a second coach in the Leningrad “Admiralteits”, helping Nikolai Lyukshinov in fulfilling the task of returning the club to the elite of Soviet football, in 1968–1969 he helped Artyom Falyan restore Zenit, which was destroyed after 1967. Afterwards he coached factory and club Leningrad teams (it was under his leadership that the team of the LOMO association in 1979 interrupted the 10-year championship hegemony of the club Dynamo in the Leningrad championships), and was one of the founders of the Zenit Sports School.
- And what did you do?
He went into trade, selling motorcycles, but didn’t last long there. They promised to make the car quickly, but my wife got scared and said: we don’t need any car... And in 1957 I came home and Talanov was sitting there. Former coach of Zenit. He treated me fabulously and respected me very much. I know, he says, trouble has come. “Yes, Ivan Mikhalych...” - “They’re about to organize a team at the Admiralteets plant, I’ll put you there!” And he hired me as a playing coach. Yes, they issued it retroactively so that I would receive three thousand in allowances. Huge money for me then.
- And how far have you played?
Up to the major league, class "A" - how did the "Admiralty" go beat everyone! We won the pulka, reached the top level, then took last place, went back to the pulka, won again - we came back... The whole Union laughed at our differences. Our plant director was a good man, Khlopotnov. I didn’t understand football, but I loved it terribly... And when we reached the highest level for the second time, we dispersed “Admiralteets”. Half of the players went to Zenit, half to Dynamo.
- And did you play against Zenit for Admiralteets?
But of course! True, we lost to them. The photograph remains - Sasha Ivanov and I, two captains, shaking hands. .. But they beat Kyiv 5:1!
Maryutin worked for many years as a coach at the Zenit school, in city clubs, after retiring, he worked as a night watchman at the Zenit base in Udelnaya...
- Did Zenit know who was guarding them?
They knew. Just in 1984, they became champions, they celebrated in the restaurant - so Sadyrin stood up: “This victory is a gift for your 60th birthday, Friedrich Mikhalych!”
Video from the official club channel on YouTube
Statistics of Friedrich Mikhailovich according to zenit-history
Achievements:
Honored Master of Sports of the USSR - 1954
- No. 3 at forward position - 1948
- No. 2 at forward position - 1950, 1951
Soviet football player, forward. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1951)
Born on a ship traveling from Baku to Astrakhan. It received its name in honor of Friedrich Engels (the decision on the name of the newborn was made right in the wardroom, after heated debates within the party cell of the ship).
Player career
Maryutin's first team was Zenit (Podlipki). During the Great Patriotic War, the Maryutin family was evacuated to Sverdlovsk. There F. Maryutin began his career, working as a turner at a factory. In 1944, he resumed playing football and began playing for Kalininets (Sverdlovsk). Before the start of the 1946 season, the best football teams belonging to the department of the USSR Ministry of Defense Industry were gathered for a training camp in the city of Frunze. The purpose of the gathering was to select the best players to strengthen the head team of the Ministry of Defense Industry - Leningrad Zenit. Friedrich Maryutin proved himself at this training camp and since 1946 he played in the highest level for Zenit (Leningrad), making his debut in major league May 3, 1946 in an away match against Moscow Torpedo.
In 1956, Maryutin was seriously injured and Zenit refused his services. In 1957, Maryutin moved to Avangard Leningrad (later the team became known as Admiralteets), for which he played for two years. In the very first year of his performance for Avangard, Maryutin and the team achieved a promotion in class, reaching Group A (the major league of the USSR championship).
National team
In the early 1950s, it was decided to break out of international sports isolation and send a Soviet sports delegation to the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Friedrich Maryutin was included in the national football team and took part in one game - on July 20, 1952 in the 1/8 final match against the Yugoslav national team (5:5). The defeat by the Yugoslav national team a day later in a replay match (Maryutin did not take part in this game) was regarded by the leadership of the Soviet Union as a disgrace (relations between Yugoslavia and the USSR at that time were openly hostile), a number of players and coaches were deprived of the title of master of sports, and CDSA, as one of the base clubs of the national team, was completely disbanded. However, Friedrich Maryutin’s performance at the Olympics did not raise any complaints, and two years after the team returned from Finland, he was awarded the title “Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.”
In total, Friedrich Maryutin played 2 games (1 official) as part of the USSR national football team.
Coaching career
After finishing his playing career, Friedrich Maryutin was a coach in the teams:
* “Admiralteets” (Leningrad) - coach
* Zenit (Leningrad) - coach
* SKA (Leningrad) - Main coach
* LOMO (Leningrad) - senior coach
* “Komsomolets” (Leningrad) - senior coach
and also a senior coach football school Zenit (Leningrad)
Awards and achievements
* Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1954)
* There are 33 on the list the best football players season in the USSR in 1948 he was called No. 3, and in 1950 and 1951 - No. 2 in the forward position
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Friedrich Mikhailovich Maryutin(October 7, Astrakhan, RSFSR, USSR - September 10, St. Petersburg, Russia) - Soviet football player, striker. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1954).
Born on a ship traveling from Baku to Astrakhan. It received its name in honor of Friedrich Engels (the decision on the name of the newborn was made right in the wardroom, after heated debates within the party cell of the ship).
Player career
Maryutin's first team was Zenit (Podlipki) (since 1939).
In 1956, Maryutin was seriously injured and Zenit refused his services. In 1957, Maryutin moved to Avangard Leningrad (later the team became known as Admiralteets), for which he played for two years. In the very first year of his performance for Avangard, Maryutin and the team achieved a promotion in class, reaching Group A (the major league of the USSR championship).
National team
In total, Friedrich Maryutin played 2 games (1 official) as part of the USSR national football team.
Coaching career
After finishing his playing career, Friedrich Maryutin was a coach in the teams:
- "Admiralteets" (Leningrad) (1959-1961) - coach
- SKA (Leningrad) (1962) - head coach
- Zenit (Leningrad) (1968-1969) - coach
Senior coach club teams LOMO (Leningrad) (1972-1974, 1976-1981), SC "Komsomolets" (Leningrad) (1966-1967, 1970-1971). He was the head coach of the Zenit football school (Leningrad) (1963-1965, 1982-1987).
Awards and achievements
- In the list of the 33 best football players of the season in the USSR in 1948, he was named No. 3, and in 1951 - No. 2 in the position of striker
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1 L. Ivanov () 2 Nikanorov () 3 Krizhevsky 4 Bashashkin 5 Dives 6 Zyabliki 7 Gomez 8 Petrov 9 Antadze 10 Net 11 Ilyin 12 When the review was over, the officers, the newly arrived ones and the Kutuzovskys, began to gather in groups and began talking about awards, about the Austrians and their uniforms, about their front, about Bonaparte and how bad it would be for him now, especially when the Essen corps would approach, and Prussia will take our side. The next day after the review, Boris, dressed in his best uniform and encouraged by wishes of success from his comrade Berg, went to Olmutz to see Bolkonsky, wanting to take advantage of his kindness and arrange for himself the best position, especially the position of adjutant to an important person, which seemed especially tempting to him in the army . “It’s good for Rostov, to whom his father sends 10 thousand, to talk about how he doesn’t want to bow to anyone and won’t become a lackey to anyone; but I, who have nothing but my head, need to make my career and not miss opportunities, but take advantage of them.” | ||
MARYUTIN
Friedrich Mikhailovich
Football player, striker. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1954). Legendary Zenit striker. Sports nickname "Frida". Height 170, weight 68. In the list of the 33 best Zenit players No. 1 (1952-1953), No. 2 (1950-1951), No. 3 (1948-1949). He is also one of Zenit's top ten scorers. He takes a respectable 9th place with 46 goals.
Born on a ship traveling from Baku to Astrakhan. His parents firmly believed in the communist idea, so they wanted to give him a revolutionary name. Various options were offered: Marx, Engels. In this series, the name Friedrich was far from the worst option. It received its name in honor of Friedrich Engels (the decision on the name of the newborn was made right in the wardroom, after heated debates within the party cell of the ship).
His first football team became Zenit in 1939 (Podlipki, Moscow region). During the Great Patriotic War, the Maryutin family was evacuated to Sverdlovsk. There Maryutin began his career, working as a turner at a factory.
In 1944, he resumed playing football and began playing for Kalininets (Sverdlovsk). Before the start of the 1946 season, the best football teams belonging to the department of the USSR Ministry of Defense Industry were gathered for a training camp in the city of Frunze. The purpose of the gathering was to select the best players to strengthen the head team of the Ministry of Defense Industry - Leningrad Zenit.
He performed very well at this training camp. He was noticed and invited to his team by the famous football player Mikhail Butusov, who was then the coach of Zenit. So he got into the major league and made his debut on May 3, 1946 in an away match against Moscow Torpedo. He gave 10 years of his life to the Leningrad team Zenit. In 1949, he was awarded the title “Master of Sports of the USSR”, and a little later “Honored Master of Sports of the USSR”.
He also took part in Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952, including that unforgettable match with Yugoslavia, when, losing 1-5, our team managed to snatch a draw 5-5. The next day there was a replay, in which the Soviet team, unfortunately, lost. The consequences of this defeat almost ended tragically for our players. Joseph Stalin gave instructions to disband the CDKA team as the base club of the national team, and to exile all the players to Siberia.
Then Vasily Stalin stood up for the players, who supervised the Air Force team and even persuaded Maryutin to move to his club. However, the transition never took place; he continued to play for Zenit.
In 1955 he received serious injury knee I missed almost a season. Therefore, he was removed from the team. In 1957, he moved to Avangard Leningrad (later the team became known as Admiralteets), for which he played for two years. In the very first year of his performance for Avangard, Maryutin and the team achieved a promotion in class, reaching Group A (the major league of the USSR championship).
During his playing career he played 216 matches in the major leagues, in which he scored 48 goals:
1947 Zenit 24 7
1948 Zenit 25 7
1949 Zenit 33 7
1950 Zenit 36 8
1951 Zenit 28 8
1952 Zenit 13 2
1953 Zenit 19 4
1954 Zenit 18 2
1955 Zenit 3 0
1956 Zenit 12 1
1958 "Admiralty" 5 2
1958 was his last season as a player. Due to an unfortunate injury, which often began to remind itself, he had to retire coaching work. He coached football players from LOMO and Komsomolets. He recalled working with the latter with particular warmth, because this team occupied quite high places under him.
1959-1961 coach of the Admiralteets team
1962 head coach of SKA
1963-1965 coach of the Zenit school
1966-1967 head coach of the Komsomolets team
1968-1969 coach of the Zenit team
1970-1971 head coach of the Komsomolets team
1972-1974 head coach of the LOMO club
1975 head coach of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk team
1976-1981 head coach of the LOMO club
1982-1987 head coach of the Vasileostrovsky branch of the Zenit school.
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