The strongest grandmother in the world. On the physical condition of women: illustrations. The house where they read Pushkin
The strongest grandmother in the world is Sakinat Khanapieva, a 76-year-old native of the village of Sultan-Yangiyurt (Dagestan). In appearance, this ordinary grandmother is capable of twisting a 50-mm iron corner into a pigtail with her bare hands or tearing a reference book a thousand pages thick.
One of Sakinat Khanapieva’s favorite tricks is juggling a 24-kilogram weight while standing on a board with nails sticking out of it. For an ordinary person, simply standing on the board will be very problematic.
When the strongest grandmother in the world (by the way, the Guinness Book of Records holder) is asked how her passion began, she recalls with pleasure the old story - “ I was about ten years old when I helped my mother, who was cleaning the house, move a 300-kilogram box of grain.».
In addition to demonstrating her strength, Sakinat Khanapieva surprises visiting journalists, who often delight her grandmother with their visits and poems of her own composition. She is seriously passionate about poetry - “ I’ve been a poet for a long time, it’s always been in my heart, but I didn’t show it to people." - says Sakinat Omarovna. On the table in the Dagestani grandmother’s room you can see “Pushkin’s Almanac”, publications of the Avar poet Gamzat Tsadasa and a bunch of notebooks covered with poems in the Avar language.
There are Islamic symbols on the walls in Sakinat’s grandmother’s room; she takes her religion very seriously. The family heirloom of the Khanapiev family is published at the beginning of the twentieth century, passing from hand to hand for three generations.
The strongest grandmother in the world organically combines her love of literature and sincere religiosity with an equally genuine love of agriculture: chickens run around in her small yard, and beautiful fruit trees bloom under the windows of the house. Smiling, supergrandmother says, “ Eating vegetables and fruits is better than drinking all sorts of medications, which, by the way, I have never taken at all.»
The son of the strongest grandmother in the world is also a world-famous strongman - Omar Khanapiev, holder of the title “strongest jaw.” With his strong teeth, he easily drags behind him multi-ton equipment - steamships, planes and trains, and just like his mother, he twists and bends iron. Omar says: " My mother and I work for a legend, but we hardly earn any money from it." “People like us have always lived poorly. And then legends were made about them and books were written,” adds Sakinat Omarovna, recalling the famous strongmen of the past.
Speaking of poverty. Today Sakinat Khanapieva lives with her daughter and son-in-law and continues to dream of her own roof over her head. The global recognition of her phenomenal abilities did not impress local businessmen and officials, who readily donated cars and land to successful athletes. For now, they prefer to ignore the strong grandmother Sakinat.
SULTAN-YANGIYURT (Dagestan), March 7 - RIA Novosti. The strongest grandmother in the world will celebrate March 8 in the Dagestan village of Sultan-Yangiyurt. The Guinness Book record holder, 76-year-old Sakinat Khanapieva, will celebrate this day in an unusual house, where you can find pieces of iron bent by her hands, a board with nails on which she likes to stand, and thousand-page reference books she tore.
Actually, to say that all this is at home is not entirely correct - all her life she has only dreamed of her own roof over her head, but for now she lives with her daughter and son-in-law. International recognition of her fantastic abilities has not yet impressed local officials and businessmen, who readily donate apartments and cars to successful athletes, but prefer to ignore Grandma Sakinat.
Nevertheless, Sakinat Omarovna is full of optimism and warmly welcomes guests, treating them to delicious Avar khinkal with garlic. Upon careful communication with her, it turns out that she is unusual not only for her remarkable strength. Grandmother Sakinat loves to read Pushkin and Rasul Gamzatov, and writes poetry herself. She has an excellent memory and a tenacious mind, and, unlike most older people, she has an idea of what the Internet is.
"...And now my right hand is broken"
There have been super-strong women in Dagestan before. There is a story about how at the beginning of the 20th century someone came to measure their strength with the famous strongman Ali-Klych, who managed to overcome Ivan Poddubny and twisted a rail with his hands, which is still kept in his native Buglen. Klych was not at home, and his sister suggested waiting.
The guest was impatient to show his strength, and he sat down on the bench, with one hand tore the floorboard off the floor, shoved Klych’s hat there and in one motion hammered the floorboard back: they say, let him come for his hat. The girl easily pulled out the floorboard, returned the hat to its place and hammered the board back: there’s no point in ruining things, she said. They say the guest chose not to wait for his brother. And they also say that my sister was stronger than Klych, she just preferred not to advertise it.
Someday legends will be made about our contemporary Sakinat Khanapieva. "Did you bend this?" - Grandma Sakinat was holding in her hand a 50-mm iron corner about two meters long, twisted into a pigtail, and somehow I couldn’t believe that a woman in her eighties could do such a thing. “Who else would do this in my house?” - Grandma laughs, twirling the piece of iron in her hand. “She’s... strong! How did you bend her?” - “Which one is strong? Is it strong or what?” - the grandmother throws her “spear” with one hand and catches it again: “Like a shepherd’s stick!”
Then the grandmother crawls under the bed and pulls out a board with nails sticking out of it. He puts it on the floor and looks at the guests: what, should I stand? There are no hints of gathering strength or concentration - seeing that everyone is ready, grandmother Sakinat quickly stands on nails, takes a 24-kilogram weight and starts lifting it to the waist. It’s as if there aren’t about two hundred nails under your feet, which also stick out, one more, the other less, and in theory should dig into your feet.
“Do your legs hurt?” - "No." There is no tension in the grandmother’s voice. Later, the author of these lines tried to stand on the same nails (without weights). Let's just say the attempt was unsuccessful.
“How high can you lift this weight?” - I wanted, of course, to capture the grandmother with a weight raised above her head. She got off the nails, began to lift the weight, and lowered it. “I can put 32 kilograms here (points to my shoulder), but now my right arm is broken,” laughs grandmother Sakinat, still holding the weight in her right hand. And he continues: “I can do this,” he lifts the weight with that very right hand, picks it up with his left and holds it in front of him.
What grandma Sakinat said didn’t sink in right away. "Your arm is broken?!"
“I fell once, in Khunzakh, there was a rock there,” - Sakinat Omarovna, who lowered the weight, but then raised it again. The RIA Novosti correspondent, confused by the unreality of what was happening, finally decided to ask her not to show any more tricks. Of course, it’s a pity that we couldn’t see Grandma Sakinat squeezing a weight and twisting an iron corner, but we managed to realize in time that her health was more important.
True, Sakinat Omarovna still dared to attempt one more feat: jokingly, she tore up a thick thousand-page reference book. Then she took up the second reference book, for some reason it didn’t give in right away - and then for the first time such determination appeared on Grandma Sakinat’s kind face that her strength was felt even at a distance. It was the face of a man who has no doubt that he can easily move mountains right now. I wonder if she tried to move mountains?
A second later, the defeated reference book was thrown at his feet. Not really believing in success, the author of these lines also tried the thick reference book for strength. Needless to say, the book was not even wrinkled.
The house where they read Pushkin
It was unusual - to drive for a long time somewhere to the outskirts of a Dagestan village, to gloomy new buildings, where there is no asphalt and dirt everywhere, to go into a house still under construction, and in the small room where grandmother Sakinat lives, to see “Pushkin’s Almanac” on the table. And hear Krylov’s fable from her lips.
Grandma Sakinat loves poetry. And not only read, but also write. “I’ve been a poet for a long time, I didn’t reveal it (to people). I’ve always had it in my heart.” At home there is a pile of notebooks covered with poems in the Avar language. “Where there is a free, white space, I don’t leave it, I write there,” says Sakinat Omarovna. And in fact, her poems are even in the flyleaf of the same “Pushkin Almanac”. She read poems about her fellow countryman, the famous Rasul Gamzatov, directly from the gift edition, and poems about Imam Shamil, respectively, from a book about Imam Shamil.
Grandmother Sakinat’s neighbors are also partial to poetry. “Look at the kind of dinners we have! She (points to a neighbor) came here and took the books of Gamzat Tsadasa with her,” shows two thick books of this Avar poet, father of Rasul Gamzatov. That's it - poetry evenings in a Dagestan village!
Grandmother Sakinat takes from the table an old, battered Koran, published in the early years of the 20th century. It has been passed down in the family by inheritance for three generations and was inherited from her mother. Shows his mother's name - Patimat, written by his mother's hand on the first page in Latin letters (at that time the Dagestan languages had a Latin alphabet). Touchingly kisses this page: “This is her hand...”
The walls of her room are covered with Islamic symbols. Sakinat Omarovna shows photographs of the most popular sheikh in Dagestan - Said-Effendi from Chirkey, and demonstrates the Koran presented to him.
She organically combines her religion and love of poetry with her passion for agriculture: chickens run around in the yard, and fruit trees planted by her grow in front of the house - Sakinat Omarovna dreams of blooming garden under the windows of the house. She loves fruits, she says that rather than drinking medicines (“chemicals,” as she calls them), it’s better to eat an apple or a pear.
She says she never took medicine at all. Doesn't know what injections are. To the envious question, what should she eat to have such health (and such strength, of course), she answers that she “eats what she has.” Again, fruits, and, of course, the most popular dish in Dagestan - Avar khinkal: pieces of boiled dough with garlic seasoning, meat and meat broth.
Mom's assistant
The girl Sakinat from the mountain village of Khunzakh was 10-11 years old when her mother was once again cleaning and wondered how to move the large box of grain that was in her way. The box weighed 200-300 kilograms and was completely unliftable, but little Sakinat thought: if you push it with your shoulder, won’t it move? The girl tried - the heavy box obediently crawled to the indicated place.
Sakinat Omarovna tells this story when she is asked how it all began.
But the most vivid memories from childhood are, of course, the war. She remembers well how her brother and uncle were escorted to the front, how people spent the night in snowdrifts near the walls of the military registration and enlistment office to escort their children. Even now she cannot hold back her tears when she tells how, three months later, her brother, 20-year-old Gadzhi, died near Leningrad - he volunteered to go on reconnaissance and immediately, 20 meters later, came across a mine. And how, again, during reconnaissance, near Nalchik, Uncle Gadzhidad was ambushed - he, too, was a strongman.
Her life was not easy, despite her unusual gift. On the contrary, she carried all sorts of tractor spare parts more than others when she worked in a hardware store, and she herded sheep more than others when she lived on the kutan. It is unlikely, of course, that I milked cows more when I worked as a milkmaid, but even there I probably had to lift or carry something heavy. And she hardly had any privileges when she nursed her nine children and provided for her family alone after her husband fell ill.
As for fame, people, according to her, did not immediately notice her strength. And somehow she did not immediately understand that only she and no one else around had an unusual gift. "At first they didn’t open it. And then I did something as a joke, and then people found out. They wondered where it came from. It’s not a shame for you to do this, they say. It’s not a shame, I say. I’m stealing or something, I’m doing bad things or something, Am I chatting or something? I’m doing my best, I’m not embarrassed by anyone,” says grandmother Sakinat.
Homeless Legend
So far, grandmother Sakinat has not benefited from her abilities. However, when asked whether the authorities have noticed her and are helping her, she says that she does not need any wealth - he only dreams of his own home, which still does not exist. But she is still offended by the authorities. He says that as soon as athletes win something, officials and just rich people immediately give them apartment keys and car keys. But they don’t see Sakinat Omarovna at their sides - maybe, of course, they are not able to understand that this is a legendary person, but they probably know that this is a Guinness Book record holder.
Sakinat Omarovna rented an apartment in Kizilyurt for thirty years, and last years lives in neighboring Sultan-Yangiyurt in his son-in-law's house. Actually, in Dagestan it is considered very inconvenient to live with your daughter - that is, in your son-in-law's house. Another thing is with my son.
But her son is also a difficult person, a famous strongman and owner, according to the Guinness Book of Records, of “the strongest jaw in the world” Omar Khanapiev. He drags trains, planes and steamships with his teeth, also bends pieces of iron and twists thick nails into hearts. He is in great demand, he travels all the time, on tours and all sorts of holidays, he is almost never at home - and now he was not at home. If you can only say so - “there was no home”, because he does not have his own home.
Contrary to popular belief about him, big money Omar does not receive any money for his performances. He takes for performances what they give, and if they don’t give anything, then he doesn’t take anything. Relatives told a funny but offensive incident when, after one such performance at the opening of a large shopping center, Omar, who was the highlight of the program, was given only a T-shirt with the company logo.
He has his own view on this matter, his own philosophy. “Omar says: let us not earn money, but we will work for the legend. Such people have always lived in poverty. And then they talk about them, they write books,” says grandmother Sakinat, recalling the famous strongmen of the past.
“At least for one day, I want to live in my own house. What it was is mine.” To say that life “on bird's rights,” as she called it, really hurts Grandma Sakinat is to say nothing. That's the mentality of the people here.
Gift from Grandma Sakinat
She is so easy to communicate that next to her it seems as if all these tricks with weights and iron corners are in the order of things, as if this is how it should be. And it’s as if she’s an ordinary Avar grandmother, of whom I’ve seen a lot and who seem to be no different from her. And only then comes the feeling: after all, this is a legendary man who will remain in people’s memory for a long time, who will be talked about even in a hundred years! It is a great honor to visit such a person!
And everything that Sakinat Omarovna said began to be filled with special meaning. "Do the first thing your heart tells you." I'll try, Grandma Sakinat. “If a person wants to do something, he will do it. I can’t do it, it’s impossible, I’m tired of it... This is impossible. At any time a person can do whatever he wants,” her unique Avar accent seemed to intensify what was said, did chopped phrases that hit the nail on the head.
What was it like to receive a gift from her hands! “Here, take it home. This is not a piece of iron, it’s gold! Allah gives it to me, I’m giving it to you. There will be barakat (grace) at home,” grandmother Sakinat held out the iron corner she had twisted. How to take him home? But how can you not take such a gift? And now this miracle of the house stands, and for some reason I believe that everything will be fine here now.
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The strongest grandmother in the world lives in Dagestan. A woman of very advanced years easily handles weights, bends reinforcement with her bare hands and knows no illnesses.
At 76, Sakinat Khanapieva doesn’t know what headaches or medications are. She never complained about her health and never went to the hospital. And tricks with sports equipment are just a hobby for her.
She stands on nails with a load of more than 50 kilograms, easily lifts weights, and twists metal objects. Not every man can afford such a hobby. Without knowing it, Sakinat Omarovna entered the Book of Records as the strongest grandmother in the world.
The inscription at the entrance to the city is the work of Sakinat Khanapieva. In just a few hours, the woman twisted the name of her hometown Kizilyurt out of metal squares.
For the first time our unusual abilities The record holder noticed it in her youth. She cleaned out the pantry with her mother, she recalls. There were no men in the house, and the box of grain, which weighed 200 kilograms, had to be moved. She tried it and it worked. But then I didn’t attach much importance to it.
Sakinat Khanapieva: “I didn’t think that I had this power. I thought that if they wanted to, they could do anything.”
She never considered herself a unique person. Neither at home, nor at work, I never asked for help. I dealt with everything myself. In addition to sports records, she has another one that she is really proud of. Sakinat Khanapieva raised 8 children.
One of them is the famous strongman Omar Khanapiev. He now holds 35 world records. Looking at how her son easily handled weights and heavy objects, she remembered her youth. That’s when I decided to try to compete with my son.
Relatives are only happy about such achievements of the strongwoman grandmother. And her passion for heavy sports is treated with understanding. Relatives know that although my grandmother does not strive for records, she still keeps herself in shape.
Murad Huseynov: “She’s sweeping, the weights are standing, she’s moving them as if there’s nothing.”
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Local residents consider the sign at the entrance to the Dagestan Kizilyurt not only a landmark, but even call it the “calling card” of the city. It’s hard to believe, but all these letters from iron corners were twisted with her own hands, literally into a ram’s horn, by Sakinat Khanapieva, a 77-year-old strongwoman.
Supergrandmother is marked by a line in the Guinness Book of Records as the strongest grandmother in the world. And they “registered” her in this famous book because at her advanced age, Sakinat Omarovna squeezes a 24-kilogram weight, breaks horse shoes and bends 5-centimeter iron rods.
The miracle grandmother was born in 1934 in the Dagestan village of Khunzakh. She first demonstrated her strength at the age of 10, when she moved an almost 300-kilogram container of grain. To the question: “What system did you train with?”- Sakinat Omarovna modestly answers: “For no reason. I was just moving pieces of iron while cleaning the house.”
Even doctors cannot answer where Sakinat Omarovna has so much strength at this age. She is not registered at the clinic, does not take medications, does not know what injections are, and to prove that she did not receive the title of the strongest grandmother in the world by chance, she twists a steel profile with her bare hands without preparation.
Having laid out her sports equipment in the yard, grandmother Sakinat does a warm-up, taking turns lifting first a light weight, then a heavier one, then an even heavier one, and finally stands on a board with nails, without letting go of the 32-kilogram projectile. Experts confirm: for an elderly person, these are almost superpowers.
There have been super-strong women in Dagestan before. At the beginning of the 20th century, the famous strongman Ali-Klych lived in Dagestan, who was able to overcome the famous Ivan Poddubny. To this day, in Buglen, the strongman’s native village, a rail twisted by his hands is kept. One day, a hero from the other end of Dagestan came to a strongman’s house to measure his strength. Klych was not at home, and his sister suggested waiting for him.
The guest was eager to show his strength, and he sat down on the bench, with one hand tore the floorboard off the floor, shoved Klych’s hat there and in one movement hammered the floorboard back. The girl easily pulled out the floorboard, returned the hat to its place and hammered the board back: there’s no point in ruining things, she said. After this, the guest chose not to wait for his brother. They say that my sister was stronger than Klych, she just preferred not to advertise it.
Maybe someday legends will be made about our contemporary Sakinat Khanapieva. In the meantime, having had the pleasure of a day of hard work, redoing all the housework, reading her poems to her grandchildren, which she has been writing since her youth, grandmother Sakinat sits down at the computer and travels through the vastness of the World Wide Web. Her son Omar gave her a computer.
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Grandmother Sakinat, at 76 years old, is probably not inferior to this super-strong girl. In her house you can see a 50-millimeter iron corner two meters long twisted into a pigtail, thousand-page reference books torn by her hands, as well as a frightening-looking board with two hundred nails on which she likes to stand. It’s hard to believe that a woman in her eighties is capable of this, but it turns out that Sakinat Khanapieva not only stands on nails, but also lifts a weight weighing 24 kilograms. When a visiting correspondent tried to stand on these nails (without weights!), the attempt, to put it mildly, was unsuccessful.
When Sakinat Omarovna is asked how it all began, she tells the following story. The girl Sakinat was about 10 years old when her mother, while cleaning, wondered who would help move a huge box of grain that weighed about 300 kilograms. Little Sakinat said: if you push him with your shoulder, won’t he move? The girl pressed her shoulder - and the heavy box obediently moved to the right place.
Amazing Grandma
The strongest grandmother Sakinat Khanapieva - amazing person. A resident of a small village, she is seriously interested in poetry, and not only reads poetry, but also writes it. On the table in her room is the “Pushkin Almanac”; in her home library there are publications by Gamzat Tsadasa, the Avar poet, father of Rasul Gamzatov. At home there are several notebooks with her poems written in the Avar language. “I’ve been a poet for a long time, but I didn’t reveal it to people. It’s always been in my heart,” says Sakinat Omarovna.
Grandma Sakinat takes her religion seriously. There are Islamic symbols on the walls of her room, and the Koran, published at the beginning of the 20th century, has been around for three generations now. family heirloom. Sakinat Omarovna organically combines sincere religiosity and love of poetry with an equally sincere passion for agriculture: chickens run around in her yard, and fruit trees grow under the windows of the house. She smiles and says that eating fruit is better than taking medicine. By the way, she never took medications at all.
The son of Sakinat Khanapieva is the famous strongman Omar Khanapiev, owner of the “strongest jaw in the world.” He moves planes, steamships and trains with his teeth, just like his mother, he bends and twists iron. Omar says: “We don’t make money, we work for a legend.” And Sakinat Omarovna, recalling famous strongmen of the past, adds: “Such people have always lived in poverty. And then they talked about them and wrote books.”
