The terrible news spread all over the world.On September 7, 2011, in Yaroslavl, the Yak-42 crashed during a collision with a radio beacon, making a charter flight to Minsk with the main team of Lokomotiv hockey team on board. Killed 26 young guys, the youngest turned 18, and the oldest - 38.
And only then did everyone know that Ivan LeonidovichTkachenko, the captain of the team, a total of about 10,000,000 rubles transferred to children in need of expensive treatment, anonymously. And just a day before takeoff, he sent another transfer to 500,000 rubles for Diana Ibragimova, a 16-year-old girl who needed a bone marrow transplant. His family did not know about it, his relatives did not know. Only two were aware of - a friend and employee of the ice arena. And both were bound by the word, could not, had no right to tell anyone.
Their eight people are children whom Ivan helped, six owe him their lives. Probably, the desire to help those who are in such great need was in his blood.
He was gone at 31.
Maybe he felt something? According to his father, he had never talked to him for so long as he had the last time.
He was the second son in a friendly working family.Father dreamed of a daughter. Vanya appeared. November 9, 1979. Adored to listen to fairy tales. He loved Gaydarovsky "Malchish-Kibalchish" and with tears in his eyes and pouty lips he reacted to the insults inflicted by Ploshish. From the age of four he had already read himself.
Это была идея отца - трехлетнего малыша поставить on the ice skates-runners attached to the felt boots. He got up and rode easily. At five he skated on real skates. We can say that it was from them that his sports career began. And it became clear that he is a hockey player from God.
He was not a fighter, but to hurt neither himself norkids are not allowed. If someone already attacked, the boy defended himself fiercely. And he was patient. However, it was impossible for anyone to bully him for a long time with impunity. He did not bend and did not yield, he gave the change.
He was quickly credited with the leaders of the yard team,for justice and clogged washers. And he proved that he is the best, when at the regional competitions "Golden Puck" his team won, scoring 43 goals, of which 37 were Vanins.
At the age of six he was accepted into the hockey section."Torpedo". The little boy had to go up every day at five in the morning, 20 minutes in the cold and wind to wait for the bus and go to the gym to the other end of the city, and from there to the school where he was admitted early, six years. And he did not complain, never of anything.
It was six years old, according to the memoirs of mom, Vanyaheld a charity event, the first in life. Careless mother's phrase that they are now rich because she won the award literally. He took the money from the wallet and distributed it to the children in the yard, to the last penny. Mom, of course, wanted to severely punish, but her father forbade. And now mom is sure that this is why her son rendered help to sick children so that no one would recognize.
It may have been incredible luck forfuture athlete, but in high school number 9 of Yaroslavl, it was decided to bring the boys, hobby enthusiasts, into one class. So, in 1990, Ivan was enrolled in 5 “C” - a sports class with a special schedule that allows you to catch a workout with A. Podmetalin (first trainer) for the second lesson. By the way, today this school is named after Ivan Tkachenko.
Then the young hockey player appeared realskates, my father got somewhere Canadian. And there was no hindrance that the athlete had not yet grown to such a size and looked in them like in boots-walkers. When the coach in May 1992, after his dismissal, forced to return to his native Saratov, called Ivan and Maxim Bychkov and Renata Yubin with him, the guy agreed, without hesitation, and defended his decision to his parents. The boys living in the dormitory had to cook, wash and clean themselves. The guys soon returned home. Vanya stayed. He stubbornly walked toward his intended goal.
Like many of his hockey friends, this waywas not easy. He had to play for the Spartak and Torpedo farm clubs, try his hand at the top league in the Tver TCC, the Volga Motor, and play for Neftekhimik.
He was deceived with the first contract.Many years later, the parents found out what their son had to do when, for three people in a team, food was given out in such small quantities as one portion of the first and two in the second. And they did not learn from his son, from his friends. Many left the sport, could not stand. He continued to play.
At 16, he plays for Spartak in Canada, for the first time abroad. He played in such a way that it is to him that Vladimir Krikunov presents the main prize - the statuette won there.
It was in his career silver world championship in 2002, when he played for the Russian team.
It has long been noted that, as soon asIvan Leonidovich Tkachenko, Lokomotiv went into the champions. And Ivan himself with the native team twice became the champion of Russia - in 2002 and 2003, in 2003 - the silver medalist of the Continental Cup, won silver and bronze. The 2011/2012 season would be the tenth.
Иван Леонидович Ткаченко думал о завершении careers. He made plans. And I was sure that everything that you undertake should be done well. He was so worried that he could be insolvent outside the hockey that had become his life.
Everyone speaks of him as very good andattentive person. He did not leave any message unanswered, he remembered the birthdays of loved ones and always congratulated everyone. He knew how to communicate with every man with ease, and it did not matter whether he was a high official or a friend with life problems.
In the team, he enjoyed the deserved respectthe fans loved him. On the ice, he was a real fighter, laid out to the last. And every hockey player in his team was confident that their captain would do everything possible and impossible for success. And Lokomotiv really was his home team. No other club managed to lure him away. He signed his contracts with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl.
Because everyone here really knows what team hockey is. Everyone actually knows that only hard work made them masters.
Was Ivan Leonidovich Tkachenko married?His wife is Marina, they have known each other since childhood. From a young age, her younger brother was his friend, with whom they played hockey together and did their homework. At the end of school, when Ivan began to play professionally, he and Marina began to live together in a rented room. Later, the club rented an apartment for him, and already in 2005 their first daughter Sasha was born, and after her, three years later, Varya. Shortly before the last flight, he found out that they would have a son. He did not have to see him. The boy was born after the disaster, his name is Nikolai, as his father wanted. And Marina remained his only woman.
So he was - Ivan Leonidovich Tkachenko -hockey player, captain of the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv, Honored Master of Sports of Russia, a wonderful man. He loved to listen to Depeche mode and U2, he loved fast driving and traveling. Awarded with the Order of the Hand and the Medal "Hurry to do good" awarded posthumously.
In memory of his son, parents plan to builda children's hockey school, an ice palace for 100 people, where the main task will be the training of future hockey stars. It was the idea of their son. First of all, he wanted to distract the boys from the street and, last but not least, to bring up future champions.
