Kogotko A.I. – STUDYING HISTORY…
The reading room of our institution «Zonal State Archive in Bobruisk» has a regular visitor. As the director of the institution, I became interested in what kind of research work he was doing. We talked about this with him.
In the conversation it turned out that Alexander Ivanovich Kogotko was born on March 14, 1964 in the village of Sukhlovo, Osipovichi district, Mogilev region.
Alexander Ivanovich is a Belarusian checkers player and composer, motorball coach, motorball and checkers composition judge, sports journalist. Press secretary of the Belarusian motorball team since 2002. Vice-world champion in checkers composition in the problem-64 section. Champion of Belarus in checkers composition in the miniatures-64 section (2003, 2011). Champion of Belarus in solving checkers composition. Coach of the bronze medalist of the Belarusian motorball championship, the Avtomobilist team (Pinsk) (2011).
FMJD International Grandmaster in Checkers Composition (2017). Master of Sports of Belarus in checkers composition (2004), candidate for Master of Sports in the game (1993). International FMJD judge in checkers composition. Judge of the highest national category in motorball (2015).
Alexander Ivanovich collects and systematizes information on checkers composition, football and hockey. He is the author of a number of books. I was interested in those books that related to the city of Bobruisk. A couple of them I was able to watch «Bobruisk football in the BSSR» and about the history of Bobruisk hockey «We were the first». It was very pleasant to discover in them publications from the newspapers «Savetskaya Radzima», which are kept in the archives.
Alexander Ivanovich’s work on studying archive documents continues, we hope in the near future in a new edition we will be able to get acquainted with new facts about the development of sports in the Bobruisk region.
