Solonevich Ivan Lukyanovich

Genus. in 1891 (1889?) in the Grodno province (different biographers name different places: Ukhanovets, Gorodnya, Novoselki, Rudniki, Shkurets and Tsekhanovets) in the family of a school teacher; Belarusian; incomplete higher education; athlete (professionally engaged in wrestling, boxing and weightlifting in the Minsk branch of the sports society "Sanitas", played football, acted as a referee at football matches in Minsk, and also took part in the creation of the Minsk Russian "Falcon"; in 1914 he took the 2nd place in the Russian weightlifting championship), journalist, publisher; monarchist. During World War I, being exempt from service due to his eyesight, he organized sports activities for training teams and soldiers. After October 1917, he fled with his wife and brother to the south of Russia, to Kiev, participated in the Civil War on the side of the Whites, and worked for the newspapers “Evening Lights” and “Son of the Fatherland.” Due to illness, he was unable to evacuate with the whites; he remained in Odessa and was engaged in underground anti-Soviet work. Arrested in June 1920 by the Odessa Cheka, but released after 3 months, because evidence against him was stolen. Upon leaving prison, he and his brother Boris organized a traveling circus, with which they toured the villages, organizing power shows, wrestling and boxing matches for peasants (for some time they performed together with Ivan Poddubny), until 1922 he worked as a loader. In 1921–1925, he was in charge of the non-existent “First Odessa Sports Club”, subordinate to Vsevobuch, he worked as a sports instructor in the Odessa Provincial Food Committee and as an inspector of the Odessa Council of Physical Education; from 1925 in Moscow - chairman of the weightlifting section of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the Supreme Council of Physical Education. In addition to sports work, he was engaged in sports journalism and wrote six books on sports topics. In 1928 he prepared manuals with a volume of over three hundred pages: “Kettlebell lifting” for the book publishing house of the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions and “Self-defense and attack without weapons” for the publishing house of the NKVD of the RSFSR, published in the magazines “Physical Culture and Sports”, “Activist”, “Questions of Shorthand and Typewriting”, “ Theory and practice of physical culture work", "Medical worker", in "Our newspaper". He was repeatedly invited to Dynamo to consult with the society's coaches. In 1930, he was fired from the SSTS, and got a job as a physical education instructor in a trade cooperative association. Since 1927 he was preparing to escape from the country. In September 1932, together with his son Yuri Solonevich and his brother Boris Solonevich, he tried to escape from the country through Karelia to Finland, but this attempt failed. The next attempt took place in September 1933; he was arrested along with all the participants in the escape on 09/09/1933; sentenced by the Troika PP of the OGPU to the Leningrad Military District on November 28, 1933 under Art. 58-6, 10 to 8 years of correctional labor camp. He served in the Podporozhye branch of the LBC, where he changed many specialties and eventually served as a sports instructor at the LBC. Having received a business trip to Povenets and Pindushi for himself and his son, on July 28, 1934 he escaped from Medvezhya Gora to Finland at the same time, by agreement, with his brother, who was in the camp in Lodeynoye Pole. Until May 1955 he was on the All-Union wanted list. In exile in Bulgaria, Germany, Argentina, Uruguay. He died in Montevideo in 1953 and is buried in the British Cemetery. Rehabilitated by VP LVO on July 20, 1989.