Oshchepkov

This book is not about intelligence, although its main character was a pupil of one of the most mysterious from the ever -existing "schools of spies" and became an illegal resident in Japan - "forerunner of Richard Sorge".
This book is not about sports, although its hero is the first Russian owner of the black judo belt, the inspired propagandist judo and the patriarch for all modern Russian judokas. Moreover, the hero of the book became the founder of a new type of struggle - sambo, creating and developing a school, which is not equal in the world today.
This book is not about repressions, although its hero was born on Sakhalin hard labor, but died in the Stalin prison, thrown there on false prosecution and rehabilitated only two decades later.
This is a book about a real patriot, a fighter, a thinker, martyr - Vasily Sergeevich Oshchepov (1892-1937) - a wonderful person of a tragic fate, who sincerely loved his homeland and made for her a lot, but unjustly slandered and long and long years forgotten