"Koki Naya - sumo with Ukrainian roots."
Sisuka town, located on the Pacific coast, was the most northern town in the governorate of Karafuto. Even in the middle. 19th century in the vicinity of the village were Sisuka Nivkh and the Ainu, there was held an annual fair, which came to trade Tungus, Gilyaks, Yakut, Russian and Japanese. In 1890, This place was the author Anton Chekhov, and in 1904/1905 he. Ethnographer Bronislaw Sisuka attended Pilsudski, the Polish president's brother, Marshal Jozef Pilsudski. Portsmouth Peace Treaty on the island was divided Karafuto m / y by 2 empires of the 50th parallel, border Sisuka was the most northern city in Japan. After fixing in the Russian Bolsheviks in accuracy here in 1925-26 years. pulled all of those who fled the communist paradise. He came to this city and Ukrainian Markiyan Boryshko, whose family in 1940, was born the son who became a prominent Japanese sumo Koki Naya.
Father of sumo wrestler was born in the village Runivschine Poltava province, and in 1900 his family together with other colonists arrived in the Far East and later moved to Sakhalin. As a participant in off-white movement Markiyan Boryshko, fearing reprisals, fled to the island yaponsuyu and settled in the city Sisuka, where in 1928 he met a young Japanese woman Nye Kieu, who worked in the studio. Ukrainian and Japanese were married.
Boryshko-san, so respectfully call him the Japanese people to come out in three-piece suit with a cane. The family was not rich, but not in need, led farming - plowing, sowing, baking and selling bread, kept cows, horses, sheep and foxes Chernoburov. The marriage was happy, having children, three boys and a girl. However, while August 1945 City Sisuka captured Scarlet Army spouse for the company with the children was repatriated to Hokkaido, and Markiyan Boryshko was in Soviet concentration camps, remembered his past White Guard. In 1949, the m Markiyan Boryshko sentenced to ten years imprisonment, he died in 1960 of tuberculosis. So Koki Naya, who was born in a family of ethnic Ukrainians and Japanese women in 1940 and was forever separated from his father. Koki Naya began his professional career in 1956 under his own name Nye, and h / r 3 years began to appear in competitions under the name Taiho Koki, which may be translated as The Great Phoenix. In early 1960 Koki Naya moved in the highest division of the Japanese professional league and won the sumo I own the Imperial Cup. Now in Japan there is no man who does not know who the Taiho Koki. This is a national hero in Japan, the great master yokodzun sumo. In Japan, if sumo won two victories in a row, then he is already considered a national hero. Koki Naya won eight of those victories. Even on his account 32 wins in the tournament, no one beat that record has not turned up today.
