Andrey Malin: sport, creative work and The Blind Can project

My name is Andrey Malin, I was born in Moscow. I am blind. For many years I played goalball and blind football for the Moscow and Russian teams, I write poems and songs, and I make games for blind people. This page lists my achievements. Each one has a link to a document or an article written by someone else: orders of the Russian Ministry of Sport, national team lists, newspaper and magazine articles and sports communities. Anyone can open the link and check. The sources are in Russian.

Some documents are large PDF files. They contain my full name, «Малин Андрей Павлович», and for the official lists the page number is given next to the link.

Sport

I started goalball and torball in 2003 and blind football around 2005.

Titles

• Master of Sport of Russia in blind sports. Order No. 44-нг of the Russian Ministry of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy of 4 April 2011, section «Sport for the blind», Moscow. I received this title for blind football. Proof: copy of the order, PDF; the order in the ministry’s list of award orders, archived copy.
• My first Master of Sport title, for goalball, was awarded in 2005. A public copy of that document has not been found yet.

International competitions

• Silver medallist of the 2005 Youth World Goalball Championships in Colorado Springs, USA, with the Russian team. Coach: Nikolai Beregovoy. Proof: Goalball Russia channel: “Second place in the boys’ tournament went to the Russian team”.

Russian championships

• Russian goalball champion with the Moscow team: 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. Coach: Grigory Dombrovsky. Proof: Goalball Russia channel, post “Champions of Russia in the 21st century”; 2017 national team list: “1st place, Russian Championship 2016”; 2019 list: “1st place, Russian Championship 2018”.
• Silver medallist of the 2011 and bronze medallist of the 2014 Russian blind football championships with the Moscow team. Proof: 2013 list: “2nd place, Russian Championship 2011”; 2015 list: “3rd place, Russian Championship 2014”.

Russian national team

• Blind football (futsal 5-a-side B1), Russian national team candidate for 2013, reserve squad. Proof: list of national team candidates in blind sports for 2013, page 100, PDF.
• Blind football, national team candidate for 2014, reserve squad. Proof: list for 2014, page 43, PDF.
• Blind football, national team candidate for 2015, reserve squad. Proof: list for 2015, page 49, PDF.
• Goalball, national team candidate for 2017, reserve squad. Proof: list for 2017, page 23, PDF.
• Goalball, national team candidate for 2019, reserve squad. Proof: list for 2019, PDF; the same list on the Samara regional sports ministry site.

Moscow team

• Goalball, Moscow city team, main squad, 2019, Yunost Moskvy sports school. Proof: order of the Moscow Department of Sport, PDF on mos.ru.

Chess

• Third place at the first chess tournament in Moscow for children with disabilities, May 2005. I played by touch, feeling the pieces. Proof: Komsomolskaya Pravda, 20 May 2005; “Sport v shkole” magazine, No. 2, 2006.

Creative work

I write poems and have published them on Stihi.ru since 2006. I performed them with the Creative Youth Club of the Tyoply Stan district of Moscow, at a student contest, in libraries and boarding houses.

My poems are published on Stihi.ru and Samizdat. Songs to my poems come out under the name «Незрячий может» (Nezryachiy Mozhet): the album “Sudby razlyot” and more.

Education

Graduated from Moscow boarding school No. 1 for blind children in 2005.

In 2005 entered Moscow Pedagogical State University, later transferred to Moscow State University of Psychology and Education.

Now

I run The Blind Can project: I make text-based online games for blind players, write songs and record videos and streams. More on the About page.