Assyrian former Soviet wrestling champion Viktor Avd’Isho (Avdishev) dies at 69 in Ukraine
AZERBAIJAN – The Assyrian former Greco-Roman wrestling champion Viktor Yuryevich Avd’Isho (Russianized to Avdishev) has passed away at the age of 69 due to heart failure, Life.ru reports.
Avdishev was a decorated athlete, crowned European junior champion in 1976, double bronze medalist at the World Championships (1978, 1983), bronze medalist at the European Championships (1983), USSR champion (1978), and winner of the USSR Summer Spartakiada of Peoples of the USSR (1979).
According to Vasili Shoumanov in a Facebook post, Avd’Isho’s grandfather came to Russia from Khnooneh village in the Van region, Ottoman Empire and now in Turkey, in the nineteenth century. Viktor Avd’Isho was born on March 10,1956, in the city of Khanlar in Soviet Azerbaijan. A small Assyrian community lived there. Later, Viktor moved to Baku.
He stopped professional wrestling in 1984 after which he went into coaching, moved to Ukraine, and started businesses there. According to Life.ru Avd’Isho set up an organized crime group in Kiev in the 1990s.
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