Makogonov was also very well known as a chess coach. He helped Vasily Smyslov prepare for his 1957 World Chess Championship match against Mikhail Botvinnik . He trained Vladimir Bagirov and Genrikh Chepukaitis ,and on Mikhail Botvinnik 's recommendation, became one of the young Garry Kasparov 's first teachers. His brother, Mikhail Makogonov (1900-1943), was also a chess master; they tied for first in the first Baku chess championship in 1923

Oh my GOD.I wrote this 5 years ago.Time is flying and I couldn`t learn English yet. Makagonov is from Azerbaijan and he is basic creator of Azeri chess school. R.I.P

Thanks for posting such a high quality link for biographical information: http://sultanov.azeriland.com/chess...

<Vladimir Makogonov> served as second to <Vassily Smyslov> in both the 1954 and 1957 WCC matches against <Mikhail Botvinnik>.

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In the Botvinnik-Smyslov World Championship Match (1954), both <Vladimir Simagin> and <Makogonov> seconded <Smyslov>.

-Mikhail Botvinnik, "Botvinnik's Complete Games (1942-1956) and Selected Writings (Part 2)" Kean Neat ed., transl. (Olomouc 2012), pp.27,31. -Originally published in Mikhail Botvinnik, "Match Botvinnik-Smyslov" (Fizkultura i sport, Moscow, 1955).

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In the Botvinnik-Smyslov World Championship Return Match (1957) both <Igor Bondarevsky> and <Makogonov> seconded <Smyslov>.

According to the conditions for the 1957 match, only one second was allowed to help analyze adjourned games. In this case, that was <Makogonov>.

-Harry Golombek
"The World Chess Championships of 1957 and 1958"
(Harding Simpole 2002 -original copyright Golombek 1957), p. 8

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<Smyslov> testifies to the value of <Makogonov's> aid:

<"During the match against Botvinnik, Makogonov was one of my coaches <<<And the fact that I became world champion>>> is due in large part to his work. He expounded his ideas clearly and persuasively. I remember his excellent analysis, which he summed up with the help of diagrams. This method is best to fix in memory the most important opening positions.">

(translation by Google. I adjusted some of the punctuation, diction and phrasing for clearer English idiom and sense)

The Makogonov h3 in the KID seems to be experiencing a bit of a renaissance. No doubt because <Shams> began playing it. ;)

<Влади́мир Андре́евич Макого́нов>

It's hard to turn the first "o" into a "a" just with transliteration. It suggests to me that there was a typo or a mistake made somewhere along the line.

I've figured it out. If you castle kingside, then there it is the Makagonov variation, two o's. If you 0-0-0 then it is the Makogonov variation three o's.