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| Federation of Aikido and Aikijujutsu of Stavroposky Region |
| Tigran Vladimirovich Elbekyan is the President of the Federation of Aikido and Aikijujutsu of Stavropolsky Region. He holds the 4th Dan of aikido Akikai, the 3rd Dan of aikijujutsu, the 2nd Dan of jojutsu, 1st Dan of kenjutsu.
T.V. Elbekyan was born on August 29, 1957 in the city of Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Territory. He became interested in martial arts from his youth. In 1980, while living and working in Moscow, he began his training in Shotokan karate, the most popular kind of Eastern martial arts in that time. It was thought that training in karate must impart more self-assurance... Read more → |
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| Aikido Federation of Volgograd region |
| The Volgograd regional public organization the "Aikido Federation of the Volgograd region" was founded on August 19, 2001 by the initiative of Alexei Vyacheslavovoch Sitnikov (3rd Dan aikido Aikikai), who was the first president of this organization. But as he had moved to another place of residence, he must have abandoned this office, but was continuing to maintain close friendly relations with the Federation, give methodical and organizational support, hold seminars and master classes.
At present, the head of the "Aikido Federation of the Volgograd region" is Vadim Anatolievich Yakovlev (2nd Dan of aikido Aikikai).
He... Read more → |
| by , on 03 Feb 2010 |
| Aikido Federation of Kalmykia |
| Oleg Anatolievich Kuberlinov - President of Aikido Federation of Kalmykia, head of the "Mutokukai Kalmykia" martial arts club, Executive director of Kalmykia branch of the Russian Union of Martial Arts, 4rd Dan Aikido Aikikai, 4th Dan Aikijujutsu, 3rd Dan Jojutsu, 2nd Dan Kenjutsu, 1st Dan Tantojutsu.
Oleg Kuberlinov was born on May 04, 1962 in Elista, the Republic of Kalmykia.
In 1984 he graduated from the Kalmykia University majoring in philology, teaching of Russian language and literature. In 2006 he completed his education in the Modern Academy of Humanities in the field of jurisprudence. After graduation, he worked several years in... Read more → |
| by , on 02 Feb 2010 |
| Kitaura sensei practice in Russia |
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In the late 1990 the member of the Presidium of the USSR Aikido Federation Vladimir Tagirov was charged with the commission of the President of this federation Sergey Kiselev to hand over his letter to Kitaura sensei and went to Madrid where he met the master. The letter contained the invitation to visit the city of Leningrad and confirmation that Vladimir Tagirov was the official representative of the USSR Aikido Federation empowered to carry on negotiations in case the master agreed to come to Leningrad, to specify the date and other details of the visit.
The seminar of Kitaura... Read more → |
| by , on 19 Jan 2010 |
| Tornado Prize Winners |
| The National Aikido Council of Russia[1] was founded in July of 2005 and is consisting of three main organizations having their goal to develop Aikido and propagate it in our country. The NACR was founded by:
Aikido Aikikai Federation of Russia[2]
All-Style Aikido Federation of Russia[3]
Aikido Federation of Russia[4]
The main objectives and purposes of the Council foundation are consolidation of the experience and efforts for popularization of Aikido in... Read more → |
| by , on 23 Dec 2009 |
| History of Aikido Development in the USSR and Russia |
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Continuation of the article. Part 3
Beginning of cooperation with the international organizations of Aikido
Saint Petersburg was often visited by Mori-san. It was very interesting for me to talk with him. For in his childhood he lived in Sakhalin, he knew Russian people and their mentality well enough. Later on it was known to me that he was one of the Aikikai Hombu Dojo people responsible for relations with Russia.
Once he asked me why would not I remove a single word – "all-style" from the Federation name and be limited by a single Aikido direction – Aikikai; in... Read more → |
| by , on 20 Dec 2009 |
| History of Aikido Development in the USSR and Russia |
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Though the history of Aikido in Russia is not so long, the number of person ready to disclose it in details and let the world know of the active part they played makes one to recollect the well-known story about Lenin carrying a log. The similarity may be noticed in the free interpretation of this event, beginning from the number of eager participants in the log transportation process and to the significance of their contribution to carrying over of the log, namely supporting its heavies part.
Pretentious as it may seem to someone who cannot agree with my... Read more → |
| by , on 17 Dec 2009 |
| History of Aikido Development in the USSR and Russia |
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Continuation of the article. Part 2
Creation of the Aikido Federation of the USSR
While Aikido was recognized officially, it was not granted the status and potentialities other Eastern martial arts had been given. It was necessary to establish the Aikido Federation of the USSR, to ensure the higher level of the public support and even the financial support.
But this problem seemed to have no satisfactory solution. The point was that most of the Aikido practitioners in Moscow belonged to the Aikikai direction. They were attended by Aikikai Hombu Dojo, their level of training, education and knowledge was very... Read more → |
| by , on 17 Dec 2009 |
