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Alisher Usmanov was born on September 9,
1953 in the city of Chust, Namangan
region of the Uzbek SSR . The oldest of four children in the family. Alisher
Usmanov's father, Burkhan Usmanov, was the prosecutor of Tashkent in the
1980s .As a child, after reading The Three Musketeers , he became interested in
swords and musketeer fights and took up fencing . After two years of training in
the section, he entered the youth fencing team of the republic, and after a while
he became a master of sports and was already a member of the USSR national
team. At this time, I first met my future wife Irina Viner , who was engaged in
rhythmic gymnastics at the same Sports Palace