Maxim Yurievich Sushinsky (July 1, Leningrad) is a retired Russian hockey player, world champion in the Russian national team (), a member of the Russian Olympic ice hockey team at the Turin Olympics. Honored Master of Sports of Russia (2002).
Career
He began to play in the district, yard team "Restless Hearts", in St. Petersburg at 5 Ordinarnaya Street (Petrogradsky District). Pupil of the SDUSHOR hockey club SKA. After leaving school, he played for his native club from 1992 to 1996. Then in HC from 1996 to 2000 and from 2001 to 2005. In the 1997-2005 seasons he played 412 matches for Avangard, scored 171 goals, made 239 assists, scored 486 penalty minutes. He made his debut in the team on September 10, 1996 in Saratov in the match against Kristall - 3: 1. He scored his first goal for Avangard on October 16, 1996 in Omsk to Siberia - 3: 1, in the same game he scored a hat-trick. Top scorer"Vanguard" seasons 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005. Best sniper teams of the seasons 1997, 1999, 2002. The best sniper of Avangard in the top division in the history (171 goals). Champion of Russia in 2004, silver medalist in 2001. Winner of the 2005 European Champions Cup. Played under No. 33.
In the highest Russian division played 994 games, scored 345 goals, made 477 assists, scored 1143 penalty minutes.
Personal life
Achievements
- Bronze medalist of the 1994 World Youth Championship.
- World champion ()
- Silver medalist of the World Championship ()
- Champion of Russia of the 2003/2004 season with Avangard Omsk
- Two-time winner of the European Champions Cup (in 2005 with Avangard Omsk; 2006 with Dynamo Moscow)
- The best player of the Russian championship (2000, 2002, 2004)
- Three-time winner of the "Most productive player" prize (2001/2002, 2003/2004, 2004/2005)
- Member of the KHL All-Star Game (2009, 2010, 2011).
Awards
Statistics
| Legend | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AND | Number of games played | Str | Penalty time | +/− | Plus or minus |
| G | Goals | NS | Assists | O | Glasses |
| - | Statistics unknown | - | Statistics were not taken into account | ||
Club career
| Regular season | Play-off | |||||||||||||
| Season | Team | League | AND | G | NS | O | Str | AND | G | NS | O | Str | ||
| 1992/93 | SKA | MHL | 23 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||
| 1993/94 | SKA | MHL | 45 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 26 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1994/95 | SKA | MHL | 52 | 11 | 11 | 22 | 57 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | ||
| 1995/96 | SKA | MHL | 49 | 21 | 15 | 36 | 43 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1996/97 | Vanguard | RSL | 39 | 20 | 16 | 36 | 24 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | ||
| 1997/98 | Vanguard | RSL | 20 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1998/99 | Vanguard | RSL | 41 | 15 | 16 | 31 | 46 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | ||
| 1999/00 | Vanguard | RSL | 37 | 19 | 25 | 44 | 58 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 6 | ||
| 2000/01 | Vanguard | RSL | 12 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 13 | 12 | ||
| 2000/01 | Minnesota Wild | NHL | 30 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 29 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2001/02 | Vanguard | RSL | 46 | 19 | 32 | 51 | 60 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 18 | ||
| 2002/03 | Vanguard | RSL | 37 | 15 | 19 | 34 | 76 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 2 | ||
| 2003/04 | Vanguard | RSL | 54 | 20 | 41 | 61 | 46 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 18 | ||
| 2004/05 | Vanguard | RSL | 50 | 18 | 37 | 55 | 64 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 24 | ||
| 2005/06 | Dynamo Moscow time | RSL | 39 | 11 | 24 | 35 | 44 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| 2006/07 | SKA | RSL | 54 | 14 | 29 | 43 | 88 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 2007/08 | SKA | RSL | 56 | 22 | 31 | 53 | 65 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | ||
| 2008/09 | SKA | KHL | 48 | 18 | 27 | 45 | 83 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 2009/10 | SKA | KHL | 56 | 27 | 38 | 65 | 87 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | ||
| 2010/11 | SKA | KHL | 55 | 16 | 23 | 39 | 48 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 12 | ||
| 2011/12 | Salavat Yulaev | KHL | 25 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 32 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2011/12 | Hummock | VHL | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2011/12 | Metallurg Mg | KHL | 24 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | ||
| Total in Russia (MHL, RSL, KHL, VHL) | 864 | 296 | 426 | 722 | 1005 | 119 | 49 | 55 | 104 | 134 | ||||
| Career total | 894 | 303 | 430 | 733 | 1034 | 119 | 49 | 55 | 104 | 134 | ||||
International competitions
| Year | National team | Tournament | A place | AND | G | NS | O | Str | |
| Russia (youth) | MCHM | 03 ! | 7 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 10 | ||
| Russia | World Cup | 5 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||
| Russia | World Cup | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Russia | World Cup | 02 ! | 9 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 4 | ||
| Russia | World Cup | 10 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 12 | ||
| Russia | OI | 4 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | ||
| Russia | World Cup | 5 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 0 | ||
| Russia | World Cup | 01 ! | 9 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | ||
| Russia | World Cup | 02 ! | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | ||
| Total (main team) | 56 | 17 | 17 | 34 | 42 | ||||
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Throughout his convalescence in Oryol, Pierre experienced a feeling of joy, freedom, and life; but when, during his journey, he found himself in a free light, saw hundreds of new faces, this feeling intensified even more. All the time he traveled, he felt the joy of a schoolboy on vacations. All faces: coachman, caretaker, peasants on the road or in the village - all had a new meaning for him. The presence and remarks of Villarsky, who constantly complained about poverty, backwardness from Europe, ignorance of Russia, only heightened Pierre's joy. Where Villarsky saw death, Pierre saw an extraordinary powerful force of vitality, the force that, in the snow, in this space, supported the life of this whole, special and united people. He did not contradict Villarsky and, as if agreeing with him (since a feigned agreement was the shortest way to get around the reasoning, from which nothing could come out), he smiled happily, listening to him.Just as it is difficult to explain why, where the ants are rushing from the scattered bump, some away from the bump, dragging specks, eggs and dead bodies, others back into the bump - why they collide, catch up with each other, fight - just as difficult would explain the reasons that forced the Russian people, after the French left, to crowd in the place that was formerly called Moscow. But just as, looking at the ants scattered around the ruined hummock, despite the complete destruction of the hummock, it is evident from the tenacity, energy, by the countless swarming insects that everything is ruined, except for something indestructible, insubstantial, which constitutes the entire force of the hummock, so too and Moscow, in the month of October, despite the fact that there were no bosses, no churches, no shrines, no wealth, no houses, was the same Moscow as it was in August. Everything was destroyed, except for something immaterial, but powerful and indestructible.
The motives of people striving from all sides to Moscow after its cleansing from the enemy were the most varied, personal, and at first for the most part - wild, animals. Only one motivation was common to all - this is the desire to go there, to the place that was formerly called Moscow, to apply their activities there.
A week later in Moscow there were already fifteen thousand inhabitants, after two there were twenty-five thousand, and so on. All towering and towering, this number by the fall of 1813 reached a figure exceeding the population of the 12th year.
The first Russian people who entered Moscow were the Cossacks of the Vintsingerode detachment, peasants from neighboring villages and residents who fled from Moscow and hid in its environs. Having entered the devastated Moscow, the Russians, having found it plundered, also began to plunder. They continued what the French were doing. Carts of peasants came to Moscow in order to take away to the villages everything that was thrown through the ruined Moscow houses and streets. The Cossacks took what they could to their own rates; the owners of the houses took everything that they found in other houses and brought them to themselves under the pretext that it was their property.
But others, still others, came for the first robbers, and the robbery every day, as the number of robbers increased, became more difficult and difficult and took on more definite forms.
The French found Moscow, although empty, but with all forms of an organically correct city, with its various functions of trade, crafts, luxury, government, and religion. These forms were lifeless, but they still existed. There were rows, shops, shops, storage sheds, bazaars - most of them with goods; there were factories, craft establishments; there were palaces, rich houses filled with luxuries; there were hospitals, prison, offices, churches, cathedrals. The longer the French remained, the more these forms of urban life were destroyed, and in the end everything merged into one indivisible, lifeless field of plunder.
The plundering of the French, the longer it lasted, the more it destroyed the wealth of Moscow and the strength of the robbers. The plunder of the Russians, which began the occupation of the capital by the Russians, the longer it lasted, the more participants there were in it, the faster it restored the wealth of Moscow and the right life cities.
In addition to robbers, the people are the most diverse, attracted - some by curiosity, some by duty, some by calculation - homeowners, clergy, high and low officials, merchants, artisans, peasants - from different sides, like blood to their hearts, - poured into Moscow.
A week later, the men who came with empty carts in order to take things away were stopped by the authorities and forced to take out the dead bodies from the city. Other peasants, hearing about the failure of their comrades, came to the city with bread, oats, hay, knocking down each other's price to a price lower than the previous one. Artels of carpenters, hoping for expensive earnings, entered Moscow every day, and new ones were cut from all sides, burned houses were repaired. Merchants opened trade in booths. Taverns and inns were set up in burnt houses. The clergy resumed services in many unburned churches. Donors brought plundered church things. Officials fitted their felt desks and filing cabinets in small rooms. The higher authorities and the police disposed of the distribution of the good left from the French. The owners of those houses, in which a lot of things brought from other houses were left, complained about the injustice of bringing all things to the Faceted Chamber; others insisted that the French from different houses had brought things to one place, and therefore it is unfair to give the owner of the house those things that were found with him. The police were abused; bribed her; wrote tenfold estimates for burnt-out state things; demanded assistance. Count Rostopchin wrote his proclamations.
At the end of January, Pierre arrived in Moscow and settled in the surviving wing. He went to see Count Rostopchin, to some acquaintances who had returned to Moscow, and was going to go to Petersburg on the third day. All triumphed over the victory; everything was in full swing with life in the ruined and reviving capital. Everyone was glad to Pierre; everyone wanted to see him, and everyone asked him about what he saw. Pierre felt particularly friendly towards all the people he met; but involuntarily now he kept himself on guard with all people, so as not to bind himself with anything. He answered all the questions that were asked to him - important or the most insignificant - equally indefinitely; did they ask him: where will he live? will it be built? when he goes to Petersburg and will he take the box? - he answered: yes, maybe, I think, etc.
He had heard about the Rostovs that they were in Kostroma, and the thought of Natasha rarely came to him. If she did come, it was only as a pleasant memory of the past. He felt not only free from everyday conditions, but also from this feeling, which, as it seemed to him, he deliberately let loose on himself.
On the third day of his arrival in Moscow, he learned from the Drubetskoys that Princess Marya was in Moscow. Death, suffering last days Prince Andrew was often interested in Pierre, and now they came to his head with renewed vivacity. Having learned at dinner that Princess Marya was in Moscow and was living in her unburned house on Vzdvizhenka, he went to her that evening.
On the way to Princess Marya, Pierre never ceased thinking about Prince Andrei, about his friendship with him, about various meetings with him, and especially about the latter in Borodino.
“Did he die in the spiteful mood he was in then? Was not the explanation of life revealed to him before his death? " Thought Pierre. He remembered Karataev, about his death and involuntarily began to compare these two people, so different and at the same time so similar in love that he had for both, and because both lived and both died.
In the most serious mood, Pierre drove up to the house of the old prince. This house has survived. It showed signs of destruction, but the character of the house was the same. An old waiter with a stern face who met Pierre, as if wishing to make the guest feel that the absence of the prince did not disturb the order of the house, said that the princess had deigned to go to their rooms and were received on Sundays.
- Report; maybe they will, ”said Pierre.
- I'm listening, - answered the waiter, - please come to the portrait room.
A few minutes later the waiter and Desalles came out to see Pierre. Desalles, on behalf of the princess, told Pierre that she was very glad to see him and asked, if he would excuse her for her impudence, to go upstairs to her rooms.
In a low room, lit by a single candle, sat the princess and someone else with her, in a black dress. Pierre remembered that the princess always had companions. Who and what they were, these companions, Pierre did not know and did not remember. “This is one of the companions,” he thought, glancing at the lady in the black dress.
The princess quickly got up to meet him and held out her hand.
“Yes,” she said, peering into his changed face after he kissed her hand, “this is how we meet. They are recent times often talked about you, ”she said, shifting her eyes from Pierre to her companion with a shyness that for a moment struck Pierre.
- I was so glad to know about your salvation. This was the only good news that we have received since a long time ago. - Again, the princess glanced back at her companion even more restlessly and wanted to say something; but Pierre interrupted her.
“You can imagine that I knew nothing about him,” he said. - I thought he was killed. Everything that I have learned, I have learned from others, through third hands. I only know that he got to the Rostovs ... What a fate!
Pierre spoke quickly and animatedly. He glanced once at the face of the companion, saw an attentively, affectionately curious gaze directed at him, and, as often happens during a conversation, for some reason he felt that this companion in a black dress was a sweet, kind, glorious creature who would not interfere with him. intimate conversation with Princess Marya.
But when he said the last words about the Rostovs, the confusion in the face of Princess Marya was expressed even more strongly. She again ran her eyes from Pierre's face to the face of a lady in a black dress and said:
“You don’t know, do you?”
Pierre glanced once more at the pale, thin face of the companion with black eyes and a strange mouth. Something dear, long forgotten and more than sweet was looking at him from those attentive eyes.
But no, it can't be, he thought. - Is this a stern, thin and pale, aged face? It couldn't be her. This is just a memory of that. " But at this time Princess Marya said: "Natasha." And the face, with attentive eyes, with difficulty, with effort, as a rusty door opens, smiled, and from this open door suddenly smelled and doused Pierre with that long-forgotten happiness, which, especially now, he did not think about. It smelled, enveloped and swallowed him all. When she smiled, there was no longer any doubt: it was Natasha, and he loved her.
At the very first minute Pierre, involuntarily, both to her and to Princess Marya, and, most importantly, to himself, told a secret unknown to him. He blushed joyfully and painfully with pain. He wanted to hide his excitement. But the more he wanted to hide it, the clearer - clearer than in the most definite words - he told himself, and her, and Princess Marya that he loved her.
“No, it’s so, out of surprise,” thought Pierre. But as soon as he wanted to continue the conversation he had begun with Princess Marya, he again looked at Natasha, and an even stronger flush covered his face, and an even stronger emotion of joy and fear seized his soul. He got confused in words and stopped in the middle of his speech.
Pierre did not notice Natasha because he had never expected to see her here, but he did not recognize her because the change that had taken place in her since he had not seen her had been enormous. She lost weight and turned pale. But this did not make her unrecognizable: it was impossible to recognize her the first minute he entered, because on this face, in whose eyes a hidden smile of the joy of life always shone, now, when he entered and looked at her for the first time, there was no there was also a shadow of a smile; there were only eyes, attentive, kind and sadly questioning.
Pierre's embarrassment was not reflected on Natasha by embarrassment, but only by pleasure, which slightly lightened her entire face.
“She came to visit me,” said Princess Marya. “The Count and Countess will be here one of these days. The Countess is in a terrible position. But Natasha herself needed to see the doctor. She was forcibly sent away with me.
- Yes, is there a family without grief? - said Pierre, addressing Natasha. “You know that it was the very day we were released. I saw him. What a lovely boy he was.
Natasha looked at him, and in response to his words, her eyes only opened more and shone.
- What can you say or think in consolation? - said Pierre. - Nothing. Why would such a nice, full of life boy die?
- Yes, in our time it would be difficult to live without faith ... - said Princess Mary.
- Yes Yes. This is the real truth, ”Pierre interrupted hastily.
Source Press service of HC "Avangard"
One of the most anticipated participants in Omsk fans Omsk hockey stars match , the symbol of our team for many years Maxim Sushinsky- the hero of the next series of the cycle dedicated to the legends of "Vanguard".
Sushinsky was one of the most charismatic players of his era. In the NHL, the players around whom the team is built are called franchise players. In Pittsburgh, this was Sidney Crosby, in Washington - Alexander Ovechkin. If they appear overseas every few years, in Russia they can be counted on one hand. Maxim Sushinsky is one of the brightest examples.
For Omsk hockey in the nineties and early 2000s, the 33rd number of Avangard was a cult figure. Maxim was born and raised in St. Petersburg, but in Omsk he was always considered his own.
Short, well-built, with a difficult character and unyielding on the ice, Sushinsky went with Avangard to the flagship Russian hockey, and practically all this time the Su-33 was the main scorer of the team, as well as its captain.
At the end of six (!) Championships, Sushinsky scored the most points in the team, three times became the best sniper. He is Avangard's best sniper in the top division in history (171 goals).
In 2000, Sushinsky went to the NHL, to the camp of the Minnesota Wild club that drafted him. During the season, the Russian played 30 matches, scored 11 points on the “goal + pass” system (7 + 4), but then decided to return to his homeland. Thus, Sushinsky became the first Russian player who left the NHL on their own initiative, and even during the season.
Center forward Alexander Prokopyev moved to Omsk that season from Dynamo Moscow. And the returning Sushinsky, together with him and Dmitry Zatonsky, made up the shock troop of "hawks", which for almost five championships delighted the fans with their play, being the best link in the history of the Super League.
These players could destroy the defense of any opponent, each season pulling each other to the first positions of the bombing lists. According to the results of three seasons (2002, 2004, 2005), the Zatonsky - Prokopiev - Sushinsky unit won the prize of the Trud newspaper - “Three scorers” (for the most productive three of the championship).
During this period, Sushinsky three times (2002, 2004, 2005) became the most productive player in the championship, twice won the prize "Master of the" play-off "- the most accurate player of the final stage of the championship (2001, 2002). And to the 2000 Golden Slam - for the best players of the Russian championship, he added two more - in 2002 and 2004.
Together with Avangard, Maxim became the silver medalist of the 2001 Russian Championship, helped the team win gold medals in 2004, and in 2005 to win the European Champions Cup. After Avangard, Sushinsky moved to Dynamo Moscow and won another European Cup.
In 2010, the rate of fire allowed Sushinsky to beat the score for the goal + pass system legendary Vladimir Petrov, whose achievement lasted more than a quarter of a century. After that, for some time in his career was "Salavat Yulaev" and a season in "Magnitogorsk". It is symbolic that Sushinsky played his last match in Russia on Omsk land - on March 22, 2012 after losing in the fifth playoff game.
Here, at the Omsk Arena, on September 6, 2013, after the Avangard - SKA match, the great hockey master was seen off.
In 2005, Sushinsky entered the symbolic Vsevolod Bobrov Club - for the greatest snipers of Russian hockey, who were able to score 250 goals in the national championship and Cup, European cups and games for the national team.
As part of the Russian national team, Sushinsky took part in seven world championships (1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010), becoming the world champion in 2008, the silver medalist in 2002 and 2010. Participant of the 2006 Winter Olympics.
Today Maxim Sushinsky lives in St. Petersburg, is engaged in business.
Dossier
Forward, Honored Master of Sports. Pupil of St. Petersburg ice hockey.
In the 1997-2005 seasons he played 412 matches for Avangard, scored 171 goals, made 239 assists, scored 486 penalty minutes. He made his debut in the team on September 10, 1996 in Saratov in the match against Kristall - 3: 1. He scored his first goal for Avangard on October 16, 1996 in Omsk to Siberia - 3: 1, in the same game he scored a hat-trick. The best scorer of the team of the seasons 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005. The best sniper of the team of the seasons 1997, 1999, 2002. The best sniper of the Avangard in the top division in history (171 goals).
He played for SKA (St. Petersburg, 1991 - 1996, 2007 - 2011), SKA-2 (St. Petersburg, 1991 - 1994) Avangard-VDV (Omsk, 1997, 2002), Minnesota Wild (NHL, 2001 ), Dynamo (Moscow, 2006), Salavat Yulaev (Ufa, 2012), Metallurg (Magnitogorsk, 2012), Friborg (Switzerland, 2013).
Champion of Russia in 2004, silver medalist in 2001. Winner of the European Champions Cup 2005, 2006. World champion 2008, silver 2002, 2010. Participant of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games, the 1999, 2000, 2004, 2006 World Championships. Bronze medalist of the 1994 World Youth Championship.
In the top Russian division, he played 994 games, scored 345 goals, made 477 assists, and scored 1143 penalty minutes. Played under No. 33.
Maxim Sushinsky. Infographics
Press service of HC "Avangard"
Birthday 01 July 1974
Russian hockey player, world champion in the Russian national team
Career
He began to play in the district, yard team "Restless Hearts", in St. Petersburg at 5 Ordinarnaya Street (Petrogradsky District). Pupil SDYUSHOR hockey club SKA. After leaving school, he played for his native club from 1992 to 1996. Then he joined HC Avangard from 1996 to 2000.
In 2000 he was selected 132nd in the NHL Draft by the team "Minnesota Wild". In the course of the season, in 30 games he scored 11 points (7 + 4), after which he returned to Russia in the same season and became the first Russian to leave the NHL on his own initiative at the height of the season.
As part of the Russian national ice hockey team at the 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010 World Championships.
On December 11, 2009, in the KHL championship match CSKA (Moscow) - SKA (St. Petersburg) scored his 300th goal in the Russian championships.
On November 21, 2011, the Salavat Yulaev club added Maxim Sushinsky to the list of refusals, as a result of which any KHL club could pick him up without any compensation within 48 hours, which did not happen, and Maxim was sent to Salavat Yulaev's farm club - Neftekamsk Toros, where he played several matches before the termination of the contact.
Personal life
- Married with three daughters.
- The owner of the AVANTGARDE car dealership is an official Mercedes-Benz dealer in St. Petersburg (named after the Omsk club).
- Front Olympic Games In 2006 he joined United Russia.
Achievements
- World Champion (2008)
- Silver medalist of the World Championship (2002)
- Champion of Russia of the 2003/2004 season with Avangard Omsk
- Two-time winner of the European Champions Cup (in 2006 with Dynamo Moscow; 2005 with Avangard Omsk)
- The best player of the Russian championship (2000, 2002, 2004)
- Three-time winner of the "Most productive player" prize (2001/2002, 2003/2004, 2004/2005)
- Having scored a goal on January 12, 2010 by CSKA, he scored 718 points in the national championships and bypassed Vladimir Petrov. His record of scoring in the “goal + pass” system (717 points, 370 goals, 347 assists) lasted for more than a quarter of a century! Today, Sushinsky already has 724 (306 + 418) points.
- Member of the KHL All-Star Game (2009, 2010, 2011).
Awards
- President's gratitude Russian Federation(June 30, 2009) - for a great contribution to the victory of the Russian national ice hockey team at the world championships in 2008 and 2009
Wikipedia about Maxim Sushinsky speaks in the dry language of facts: Russian hockey player, world champion as part of the Russian team, Honored Master of Sports of Russia, champion of Russia of the 2003/2004 season as part of Avangard Omsk, the best player Russian Championship (2000, 2002, 2004), participant in the KHL All-Star Game (2009, 2010, 2011). This list sporting achievements you can go on, it will take no less than a magazine page. But the most interesting and important thing for us can be found in the "Personal life" section. Maxim Sushinsky is the owner of the Avangard auto center, which is an official Mercedes-Benz dealer in St. Petersburg.
Maxim, many people in St. Petersburg and Russia know you as a super successful hockey player. What made or inspired you to try yourself in business as well?
The most important thing, probably, is that hockey does not last forever: everyone who is professionally involved in it, sooner or later, has to end his career. As for me personally, I have to feed a large family. I became a successful hockey player, now I strive for other achievements, but not in sports, but in my business.
- Why exactly the automotive business, and not, say, mass media or show business? Or is all this still ahead?
The automotive business is closer to me in spirit. And it is also important that it is interesting to me. Besides, I can't quite call myself a media person. So let everyone do their own thing, what they do best.
Autocentre Avangard is one of the youngest Mercedes-Benz dealers in St. Petersburg. What did you learn from more experienced colleagues while creating it, and what did you have to apply your own ingenuity to?
Of course, we learn something from others, we adopt all the best that is in this area both in Russia and abroad. But, for example, we develop all customer service processes ourselves, and I think that this is very successful. In any case, this is what our customer satisfaction statistics say.
If you ask the townsfolk what an auto center is, then the majority will answer that this is a place where they just sell cars and help with their maintenance and repair. Is it really? Or are there some nuances?
We do not just sell and service, we provide a full range of services related to the car, offering our customers convenient cooperation in everything from purchase to maintenance, diagnostics and repair. This includes not only the sale of cars, but also the acceptance of the client's cars, as well as a full range of banking and insurance services. Important components of the success of the Avangard auto center are friendly staff, service, a cafe for meetings and waiting. And this is what our clients value us for.
- What attracts you, Maxim, to the Mercedes-Benz brand? Why exactly she?
I always strive for the best, and Mercedes-Benz is truly the best car brand.
- How did your family react to your business career? After all, it is clear that business does not add free time.
The family reacted with understanding and support. Yes, you are absolutely right, the time has not increased for sure, but on the other hand, I am at home every evening, and not on a trip somewhere very far away. So in everything you can, if you wish, find your obvious advantages.
And, finally, Maxim, we must ask you about your plans - both in business and in sports. What are you ready to surprise us with?
I think that, of course, I will surprise, but if I tell you about what it will all be, then this is no longer quite a surprise. So, perhaps, I'll leave everything a secret for now.